Hunter Biden indicted on federal gun charges
www.nbcnews.com
The indictment against the president's son comes after a plea agreement on tax and gun charges fell apart in July and amid a probe of his finances by House Republicans.
      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        71·
        10 months ago

        Nothing fancy; just whipped up some ramen. If you’re into that, Sun Noodle is the shit - I particularly enjoy their tonkotsu, tan tan, and mazemen varieties. Also, a soft-boiled egg really levels it up.

  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
    122·
    10 months ago

    It’s being done for the wrong reasons (to satiate those calling for political retaliation against a politician’s kid, not the pursuit of justice for its own sake) but in this unjust dystopia, a rich douchebag being held accountable for his actions is still refreshing.

    I just wish they’d go after all/any the brazen, out in the open cases of insider trading that happen all day every day… at all.

    • Ubermeisters@lemmy.zipEnglish
      22·
      10 months ago

      Yeah how about all those covid stimulus dollars that went to big companies who lied and used it for yachts and shit

  • GopherOwl@lemmy.world
    8·
    10 months ago

    I, for one, look forward to the Supreme Court ruling 5-4 that Hunter Biden deserves the death penalty for this. While simultaneously ruling that all drug users must open carry at all times. Naturally Justice Thomas would pen the majority opinion based on a strict originalist reading of the 18th Amendment.

  • Illuminostro@lemmy.world
    8·
    10 months ago

    Anyone else sick of watching grown ass people in the Republican party behave as if they’re on The Jerry Springer show? It’s intentional in their part. They know their idiotic followers love it

  • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Good. Not sure I agree with the law, but the law is the law and being the son of a president especially means you face the consequences.

    • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      10 months ago

      Hunter Biden “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,” according to the indictment.

      So he lied on a form about not being a drug user.

      • geosoco@kbin.social
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        10 months ago

        huh? I’m guessing you didn’t mean to reply to me.

        I was asking why the OP changed the title of the article to add “son of the president”. As if it’d somehow make people care more about this total non-story.

        • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
          3·
          10 months ago

          I think it is a huge story. Hunter has money, so his attorneys can move the case up the chain. The court may have to rule if it is constitutional or unconstitutional for a government form to restrict gun sales to people. Hunter walks on that charge if deemed unconstitutional, and if deemed constitutional, it could maybe set precedent that the government can legally enforce stricter gun regulations.

          E.g. No assault charges in the last x amount of years unless deemed okay by a medical professional. No firearms over a certain caliber, etc.

          So for the trump appointee to win, he has to do what is good for the populous, which he can’t do. It’s against his programming. Who knows though, maybe the clock will be right at that time of day?

          • geosoco@kbin.social
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            10 months ago

            I hear you, that would definitely make the case more interesting, if it ever gets to that. That money also means he’s way more likely for him to hire lawyers to get him off on some technicality so judges never have to take that on.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Two counts are tied to Biden allegedly filing a form claiming that he was not using illegal drugs at the time he purchased a Colt Cobra revolver in October 2018.

    U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland named Weiss special counsel in August, as negotiations over the tax and gun charges collapsed.

    The two sides reached a plea agreement in July which called for Hunter Biden to plead guilty in Delaware federal court to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his taxes in return for prosecutors recommending a sentence of probation.

    A separate felony gun charge for illegally owning a Colt Cobra .38 Special handgun would have been dropped in two years if Biden honored the terms of what’s known as a diversion agreement.

    “The agreements are not straightforward and they contain some atypical provisions,” U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika noted, including one that could theoretically protect Biden from other tax-related crimes in the same time period.

    In subsequent court filings, Weiss’s office noted that without the plea agreement in place, there were venue issues and the case would most likely have to go to trial in California or Washington, D.C.

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