The president’s son appears headed for trial after a plea agreement fell apart over the summer.
, was finally indicted by the feds on Thursday on three criminal counts of illegally obtaining a handgun by lying about his illicit drug use when he filled out paperwork to buy a .38 Special revolver.during a court hearing in July, when prosecutors announced they weren’t completely dropping an overarching investigation and irked defense lawyers blurted out that the deal was off.
Thursday’s four-page indictment was a bare-bones court document, merely repeating what the public already knows: Buying from a licensed gun shop requires filling out a government form that affirms the person isn’t a criminal or engaged in certain illegal activity—something Biden appears to have flagrantly violated., the president’s son described his battles with addiction and the way he would “smoke crack every 15 minutes.
“Robert Hunter Biden,” the indictment says, “provided a written statement on Form 4473 certifying he was not an unlawful user of, and addicted to, any stimulant, narcotic drug, and any other controlled substance, when in fact, as he knew, that statement was false and fictitious.” For years, Republicans have been clamoring for the Department of Justice to pursue criminal charges against Biden and his family—alleging vast conspiracies that purport to tie the family’s finances with Chinese interests and call into question whether members have improperly used proximity to power to expand their wealth and influence.
Conservatives criticized how the DOJ spent years investigating the younger Biden without charging him, and earlier this year, the feds seemed to inch forward with a muted criminal case that went after him for dodging taxes while simultaneously letting him off on the gun crimes. But after negotiations broke down, Attorney General Merrick Garland elevated Delaware’s U.S.
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