Special counsel David Weiss appeared to be willing to end the Hunter Biden probe earlier this year without any charges for the president’s son, but seems to have changed his mind around the time two IRS whistleblowers accused the Justice Department of stonewalling the case and giving Hunter Biden special treatment, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
It’s unclear if Weiss actually changed course because of the whistleblowers.
The newspaper cited sources from both sides who were involved in the case, and hundreds of pages of non-public emails between Weiss’ prosecutors and Hunter Biden’s attorneys. Weiss’ spokesman did not comment for the story.
Weiss concluded by late 2022 that he did not have sufficient grounds to charge Hunter Biden with felony tax crimes, the Times reported. So, one of Weiss’ top deputies proposed to Hunter Biden’s team that they revolve the investigation with a single “diversion agreement,” where the president’s son would avoid charges if he promised to pay his back taxes and never buy a gun again, according to the Times.
An agreement was drafted in May, and the two sides haggled over language, though emails from prosecutors included a disclaimer that they “had not discussed or obtained approval” from their supervisors for the emerging deal.
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