August 20, 2023
"Earlier this year, The Times found, Mr. Weiss appeared willing to forgo any prosecution of Mr. Biden at all..."
"... and his office came close to agreeing to end the investigation without requiring a guilty plea on any charges. But the correspondence reveals that his position, relayed through his staff, changed in the spring, around the time a pair of I.R.S. officials on the case accused the Justice Department of hamstringing the investigation. Mr. Weiss suddenly demanded that Mr. Biden plead guilty to committing tax offenses...."
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"Mr. Weiss suddenly demanded that Mr. Biden plead guilty to committing tax offenses...."dare Mr. Weiss demand Mr. Biden plead guilty to the crimes he committed. The unmitigated gall!
I can't read the article. Does the paper of record (sic) tell us the dollar amount of Mr. Biden's unpaid tax liability?
That's why the 11 PM Trump indictment and news conference in Georgia. Every Biden fuckup results in another Trump indictment.
It's good to be part of the nomenklatura. You can get away with anything--hooker banging,coke sniffing, bagman duties, tax evasion and all will be forgiven. Oh throw in a little adultery as well.
The man is a snake
Is this presented as sympathetic to Biden, i.e., he wouldn't have been charged at all by Weiss if not for outside political pressure. Or is it an exposé that reveals a crooked fix by Weiss that was aborted when the whistleblowers came forward.
It's the Times. Hard to believe it's the latter, particularly since Biden insiders and DOJ personnel were spilling. At best they may have straddled the line.
The White left cover for each other.
For those keeping score at home:
1) Weiss finally decided to charge Hunter Biden.
2) The judge figured out the fake plea agreement they arranged behind closed doors that would protect Hunter from any jail time or future charges for ANY crimes.
3) Weiss dropped all charges against Hunter Biden.
That is where it currently stands. No charges are pending against Hunter Biden. Even though he's on tape doing crack cocaine, buying prostitutes and accepting bribes on behalf of his criminal father Joe Biden, who shares ownership of 20 offshore companies used to launder these bribes so that nobody in the family is required to pay taxes on this income, which then gets funneled back to Joe Biden by Hunter through rent payments, repairs on houses, etc. etc.
A RICO conspiracy, as it were.
So yeah, let's indict Trump.
Just did our tax return. Our Fed/state effective tax rate: 39.2%. Take that Hunter!!!
Elsewhere, he is said to have worked under Beau Biden in Delaware.
once again cue up Mr Carlin:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=it%27s+a+big+club+and+you+ain%27t+in+it&view=detail&mid=F068033597A66EAD5A7AF068033597A66EAD5A7A&FORM=VIRE
>"how the deal ultimately fell apart amid schisms and withering external pressures."<
I really like that "withering external pressures" part because there is more of that coming for these scummy Democrat crooks. A lot more, I think. And maybe it will result in something substantially politically damaging to them. Hey, a guy can dream...
How much more do you need to know?
Skeptical Voter said...
It's good to be part of the nomenklatura. You can get away with anything--hooker banging,coke sniffing, bagman duties, tax evasion and all will be forgiven. Oh throw in a little adultery as well.
Well, this looks like the end of Hunter Biden's career in politics.
Hooker banging.
Coke sniffing. (Okay, you got me. With Trump it was Adderall.)
Bagman duties.
Tax evasion.
And a little adultery as well.
Crooks and liars covering for other crooks and liars. The left have NO moral standing or credibility.... or trust.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
"withering external pressures"
Deplorable!
The pressures changed their calculations. Can't afford to look to nice women like the complete tools you are. So they tried to fudge it.
Even the NYT hints that internal pressures all went the other way.
It's good to be a Dem/prog in America. No taxes, lying on gun application, mishandling that gun, whoring with abandon, repeatedly using illegal drugs, corrupting the polity--no prob.
Withering external pressures == pressure from Biden and the corrupt DOJ of our now illegitimate tyranny.
Weiss has been paid off by Joe via Bitcoin. The whole system is corrupt.
Yes sir, that’s the shape of things in this version of America. And these clowns feel no sense of shame, they fly their fascist flag high.
>"how the deal ultimately fell apart amid schisms and withering external pressures."
Principle, basic fairness, and equality under the rule of law were not part of the discussion.
Most contemporary Democrats are incapable of feeling a sense of shame and do NOT embarrass easy. That is a horrible situation for our country to find itself in. Horrible and extremely dangerous, to be precise.
WHO CARES ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN! If he and one of his hooker girl friends had spent the last couple of decades robbing banks, who would care except for their victims? They might even have become folk heroes. Like Bonnie and Clyde.
What matters is that ALL OF US are the victims, because Hunter sold the influence and power of the US Government to the highest bidder.
What did Joe Biden know and when did he know it?
It doesn't matter that much who gets elected President in 2024, so long as it's not Joe Biden or any other Democrat. There's some house cleaning to be done.
This is hilarious — the fact that republicans were blowing up these two tax charges and gun violation into a 'worse than Watergate' crime spree means, once again, they end up eating crow. Just like they did when the Durham investigation flopped.
But now Weiss has been elevated in status. Now he’ll really be independent.
“ withering external pressures”. Or in other words: facts.
Inconvenient facts.
хорошо быть номенклатурщиком, товарищ
imagine THE GALL of the lowly IRS peons, thinking that a DEMOCRAT should Obey the Law???
Don't those LOSERS Know, that the Democrats ARE the law???
Politico got so excited they omitted the key word "hid" in their tweet roday.
Hunter HID that sweet illicit income?
And the IRS said hol' up here, we can't let such a high-profile player get away with that?
Isn't this exactly the kind of case the Dems have wanted to get on Trump all these years?
Tooooo funny...
Just doing anything they can to help Biden and Hunter avoid any kind of penalty for their crimes... ANYTHING TO HELP.
Massive shameless corruption.
Trump would have been successfully impeached if this kind of stuff had gone on in his Administration.
Is this presented as sympathetic to Biden, i.e., he wouldn't have been charged at all by Weiss if not for outside political pressure.
I noted that too. Why would it have taken outside political pressure? The gun crime is pretty solid. Now that we have more information from whistleblowers to match up with the laptop; it seems the tax violations are also pretty solid. If the DOJ can come up with inventive philosophies to indict a former President; how come they don't have internal pressure to prosecute a President's son for common felonies?
I know the answer, but I'm tired of the continual effort to feed us obvious lies.
Damn, I feel like a prosecutor could have a lot of fun using old speeches from Senator Biden to describe to a jury the seriousness of the crimes his son committed. A younger Joe used to rail against drugs, guns, and people who evaded paying taxes.
Why couldn't Manafort have pled guilty to some minor charges, faced a fine an probation, and gotten immunity for everything else, instead of rotting in prison for the same violations that it is a matter of public record that Hunter Biden committed?
To ask it is to answer it.
From Marco Polo on X
David Charles Weiss (DOB: 06/13/1956) is the son of Meyer Weiss (DOB: 02/16/1924).
Meyer was an IRS agent in Philly from 1955 to 1984. During his tenure, Meyer accepted over $200k in bribes from businessmen to help them break federal tax laws.
https://www.leagle.com/decision/1995195769brtcm188811888
Have the people in charge always been this corrupt and incompetent? Or have things recently started to get much much worse?
When a prosecutor is oddly incurious it speaks for itself.
BUMBLE BEE said...
Elsewhere, he is said to have worked under Beau Biden in Delaware.
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Before he died in Iraq....
So, Weiss is completely corrupt. Got it.
This brings up the things for which this pro-GOP group of NYT writers is really useful: giving David Weiss or someone in his immediate vicinity an opportunity to cause David Weiss more problems.
Three times in the story, NYT provides anonymity to a “senior law enforcement official” to push back on the representation of the deal, including as laid out by documentary evidence. In one such instance, NYT helpfully notes that if Weiss commented, he would be violating DOJ policies and possibly the law (though the leaks in this story don’t appear to violate grand jury secrecy).
In a second instance, this anonymous “senior law enforcement official” denies something — that David Weiss told an associate that “the average American would not be prosecuted for similar offenses,” the kind of assertion that might provide the basis for an exceedingly rare successful claim of selective prosecution — that only David Weiss would know.
This chatty senior law enforcement official similarly denies something else that could bollox any further charges against Hunter Biden — that the only reason he “reneged” on the original terms of the plea deal is that IRS agents got journalists to report claims of bias that their own testimony did not substantiate. And if Weiss and DOJ IG didn’t already have enough to talk about, there’s this passage from the NYT, with its truly epic use of the passive voice: “Mr. Weiss was quietly assigned,” by whom, NYT didn’t choose to explain.
That’s because there are already parallel investigations — at Treasury IG and at DOJ IG — into the leaking that occurred during this investigation. David Weiss was already going to be a witness in them, because [James Comer's whistleblower, FBI agent] Gary Shapley made claims about what Weiss said personally at a meeting on October 7, 2022, a meeting that was called first and foremost to discuss leaks. Shapley had plenty of holes in his testimony that the NYT failed to point out.
So it could be that now Special Counsel Weiss may be stirring the pot as the unknown senior law enforcement official. One way or another the leaker has to be exposed.
The people who bombed buildings in the 70s are now in charge.
Finally Shangri-la.
Finally.
smirk
tim in vermont said...
onwardFrom Marco Polo on X
David Charles Weiss (DOB: 06/13/1956) is the son of Meyer Weiss (DOB: 02/16/1924).
Meyer was an IRS agent in Philly from 1955 to 1984. During his tenure, Meyer accepted over $200k in bribes from businessmen to help them break federal tax laws.
Gosh tim, Meyer Weiss was a piker compared to Fred C. Trump, Sr,., Donald's dad, who devised a tax fraud scheme, All County Building Supply & Maintenance, which permitted Fred to give money to his children free of 55% taxes and to adjust rents upward on his rent-stabilized buildings by overcharging all maintenance to these buildings from 1992 until the practice was questioned in 2019. Building profits, of course, declined so income taxes went down as well.
Donald got one-fifth of All County's "profits" every year as did siblings Robert, Elizabeth, Fred Jr., and Maryanne. Maryanne was a federal judge who was forced to resign to end a civil misconduct inquiry launched after a report that she participated in Trump family schemes to dodge taxes.
Weiss has been paid off by Joe via Bitcoin.
How can you be sure of that??
I mean.......the assassins always get paid. I'm pretty sure they don't accept bit coin.
gadfly’s newfound interest in exposing and prosecuting people who leak information on investigations is precious.
Original Mike said ... "I can't read the article. Does the paper of record (sic) tell us the dollar amount of Mr. Biden's unpaid tax liability?"
Most of the lucrative Burisma, etc. payment years have already had their statute of limitations lapse on account of the slow-walking prosecutors. That in itself is a crime.
For those of you defending Hunter on his tax charges.
I can tell you've never been audited or have engaged a CPA to do your taxes. I'm gonna yell at you. Do Not Evade Your Taxes! Always. Always employ a certified tax preparer or CPA to dpo your taxes. To willfully not pay your taxes is a criminal offense. Hunter fucked up. No surprise. He's a fuck up. By the time you're standing in front of a tax judge it's too late to back down. He's going one of two ways. To prison or working out a schedule to pay his debt. And he better not miss one payment.
It is illegal for a felon to own a gun. In all 50 staes. Even to handle one is a crime in most states.
But it is a relieve to finally have you all admit that you encourage the uneven administration of the rule of law. Makes ignoring your silly asses easy.
tl-dr: They tried their best to bury it. It didn't work and now they're stuck.
“ Blogger Rusty said...
For those of you defending Hunter on his tax charges”
How precious, except he was NOT going to prison or paying them back before the irs whistleblowers ( by the way what has happened to them? ) spoke up.
@gadfly:
Oh my God, you mean.... people actually try to avoid paying taxes? The horror.....
This is hilarious — the fact that republicans were blowing up these two tax charges and gun violation into a 'worse than Watergate' crime spree means, once again, they end up eating crow.
It's not the crime, it's the cover up. Are you really dumb enough to believe they don't know who brought the cocaine into the White House?
The MSM was out to get Nixon then and today they're out to protect the Democrats.
The whole fake investigation will be used to clear hunter and therefor Biden.
it's a crock.
So Trump's family is as bad as Weiss's family, and that is supposed to make Weiss, whose college tuition was paid partly with money his IRS agent dad collected in bribes, the squeaky clean guy who should be a Special Counsel.
"the fact that republicans were blowing up these two tax charges and gun violation into a 'worse than Watergate' crime spree means,"
Either Rich doesn't know that there was an addendum added to the plea deal that listed other possible violations by Hunter, such as the FARA violations that Manafort is sitting in prison for, and specified that Hunter would be given immunity from prosecution for any and all matters mentioned in the plea deal, or he's a liar. Either way, he is not worth listening to.
The deal was given to the judge minutes before the hearing, to make it very difficult for her to understand the ramifications of it, and the way that it created the immunity almost amounted to a RICO style crime. Two separate sections of the deal seemed unconnected, but when taken together, they amounted to a get out of jail free card for Hunter. And Weiss crafted this deal with Hunter's lawyers.
Maybe Rich can give us a reason, other than to deviously engineer immunity from prosecution on those crimes, that the FARA violations were mentioned in a plea deal on tax and gun charges. This should be good.
Dude1394 said...
“ Blogger Rusty said...
For those of you defending Hunter on his tax charges”
"How precious, except he was NOT going to prison or paying them back before the irs whistleblowers ( by the way what has happened to them? ) spoke up."
I thought I explained that. You either go to jail or you make a payment program with the IRS. Did you miss that? But let me stress again.
gadfly said "Meyer Weiss was a piker compared to Fred C. Trump, Sr,., Donald's dad"
Oooh! Superb use of Whattaboutism!
I'm sure all the commenters here are dazzled by your sophisticated mastery of junior high debate techniques.
Weiss can just stall for another 15 months till Joe is reelected. Then the matter can just disappear down the memory hole.
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