Here Are the Details -- And Problems -- With The Aborted Plea Agreement Involving Hunter Biden

The Government Concealed In The Documents that the Agreement Would Eventually Provide Hunter With a "Walk" On All Uncharged Crimes

[Edit: I’ve cleaned up a couple of issues that I didn’t have time to catch before publishing. I’m also including links to the three documents that are referred to and screen-shotted below.]

It is the job of a criminal defense attorney to represent the interests of his client “zealously” within the boundaries of the law. A criminal defense attorney should take every opportunity, cut every corner (lawfully), assert every advantage, and extract every concession he can out of the Government in trying to win a better outcome from his client in a criminal matter.

The Government can always say “No.”

When a shady deal is arranged that provides an unwarranted and unjustified outcome to a criminal defendant, the defense attorney should be applauded for having accomplished that. His only obligation is to his client’s interests, not the public’s.

But the Government should and must be condemned for allowing such a deal to take shape, then walking it into court and attempting by subterfuge to slip it past a federal district judge who must sign off on the deal for it to become reality.

Whose interests are the prosecutors serving when they willingly enter into a shady deal by which they provide benefits that would NEVER be provided to “Joe Q. Taxpayer” under the same facts.

The DOJ attorneys only needed to ask themselves one question before they rejected the idea rather than carrying forward into U.S. District Court in Delaware yesterday:

“Would this disposition even be considered for anyone not named Hunter Biden?”

But it’s not just the disposition that reeked, it was the structure of the paperwork that showed a clear intent by the parties to try to slip this past the public and avoid the political firestorm and backlash that was certain if they had set forth the terms in clear and obvious language.

Again - for Hunter’s attorneys — kudos on a job well done.

For DOJ — what the fook were you thinking in trying to avoid public scrutiny of the the deal you made?

So, let’s get into the details and why “this fish rots from the head down” — I’m talking about you DAG Lisa Monaco.

Here is the basic outline, and I break down the details in some additional detail further down.