U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika will preside over Hunter Biden's federal criminal tax case, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
James Clapper told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday that he did not regret signing the letter in 2020 that claimed Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation and argued there was no evidence the Russians haven't "messed with it."
on two misdemeanor federal tax charges. Former President Trump appointed Noreika to her position in 2017. If convicted, Biden faces a maximum penalty of 12 months in prison on each of the tax charges – a total of two years. There is a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison on the firearm charge for which he agreed to the diversion program.
Such programs, according to the DOJ website,"divert certain offenders from traditional criminal justice processing into alternative systems of supervision and service" such as mental health or substance abuse treatment. Those who successfully complete diversion programs, the DOJ says, can see"declination of charges, dismissal or reduction of charges, or a more favorable recommendation at sentencing."Judge Noreika will handle the sentencing for Biden.
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