"Have you ever seen a diversion agreement where the agreement not to prosecute is so broad that it encompasses crimes in a different case?" she asked assistant U.S. Attorney Leo Wise.
Questioning why such promises were made in the diversion agreement - an agreement she could not rule on - the judge said: "It seems to me like you are saying 'just rubber stamp the agreement, Your Honor.' This seems to me to be form over substance."
The DoJ has been insisting to congressional investigators that it could not respond to inquiries about the Hunter case in those matters still under investigation, but the diversion agreement, of course, would render that claim and any "Investigation" baseless.
"In Hunter's case, according to what folks in the courtroom have told me, Hunter's plea was structured under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(c)(1)(B), which is usually just a plea in return for a joint sentencing recommendation only, and contained no information on its face about other potential charges, and contained no clear agreement by DOJ to forego prosecution of other charges," Will Scharf said.
"Instead, DOJ and Hunter's lawyers effectively hid that part of the agreement in what was publicly described as a pretrial diversion agreement relating to a 922(g)(3) gun charge against Hunter for being a drug user in possession of a firearm," Scharf said.
The lawyers slipped Hunter's blanket immunity in the pre-trial diversion agreement so the judge could not accept - or reject - the blanket immunity part of the deal.
"So, they put the facts in the plea agreement, but put their non-prosecution agreement in the pretrial diversion agreement, effectively hiding the full scope of what DOJ was offering and Hunter was obtaining through these proceedings. Hunter's upside from this deal was vast immunity from further prosecution if he finished a couple years of probation, and the public wouldn't be any the wiser because none of this was clearly stated on the face of the plea agreement, as would normally be the case,' Will Scharf said."
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/07/dojs_dirty_deeds.html
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