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Hunter Biden’s Attorneys Suggest Prosecution Is Linked to Russian Intel

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Hunter Biden’s attorneys are arguing a special counsel appointed by President Biden’s Justice Department is doing the bidding of Russian intelligence officials.

The defense attorneys, led by Abbe D. Lowell, suggested in a court filing on Monday that special counsel David Weiss’s criminal prosecution of Hunter Biden is carrying out the mission of Russian intelligence officials.

Biden’s attorneys are attempting to connect Weiss’s prosecution of Hunter Biden on federal tax and gun charges to the indictment of disgraced ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who Weiss is prosecuting for false statements to the FBI alleging Hunter and Joe Biden received bribes from a Ukrainian oligarch.

“This case illustrates the very continuing harm identified by the Special Counsel. The Special Counsel tells us Russian intelligence sought to influence the U.S. presidential election by using allegations against Hunter Biden to hurt President Biden’s reelection,” the filing reads. The supplemental filing is part of Hunter Biden’s argument for selective prosecution by Weiss.

Weiss and his team of prosecutors revealed Smirnov’s apparent ties to Russian intelligence in a memo last month argued for keeping him detained while awaiting trial. Biden’s attorneys referenced the information disclosed by the special counsel to cast doubt on the special counsel’s prosecution. (Read more from “Hunter Biden’s Attorneys Suggest Prosecution Is Linked to Russian Intel” HERE)

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into Alaska Airlines After Door Plug Blowout

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) launched a criminal investigation into Alaska Airlines after a door plug blew off of one of its planes mid-flight.

Passengers and crew from the January flight were contacted by investigators, who seek to get to the bottom of the door plug disaster that took place on one of its Boeing 737 Max aircrafts, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

The DOJ already interviewed multiple pilots and flight attendants who were on the plane when the blowout occurred, according to the outlet. The U.S. grounded hundreds of commercial 737 Max-9 planes after the left door plug of Flight 1282 broke off the aircraft mid-flight, causing the cabin to depressurize.

Several passengers aboard Flight 1282 sued Boeing for emotional and physical trauma, claiming that the company “failed to design and/or construct those aircraft safely, according to court documents. The flight was en route to Ontario, California, from Portland, Oregon when the incident occurred. (Read more from “DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into Alaska Airlines After Door Plug Blowout” HERE)

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DOJ Charges Informant Who Provided FBI Details About Alleged Bribery Scheme Involving Burisma, Bidens

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged a FBI informant Thursday who provided details about an alleged bribery scheme involving Hunter Biden, Joe Biden and Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company.

Special counsel David Weiss indicted Alexander Smirnov, the confidential human source (CHS) who told the FBI in 2020 about alleged corruption involving Burisma and the two Bidens, on one count of making a false statement and one count of creating a false and fictitious record. Smirnov told the FBI that Burisma executives had discussed paying millions of dollars to Hunter and Joe Biden in order to ensure that Joe Biden would use his political clout to protect the company’s interests.

The indictment asserts that Smirnov only made contact with Burisma executives in 2017, after Biden’s stint as vice president concluded and after the Ukrainian investigator probing Burisma had lost his job, according to the indictment.

“The indictment alleges that [Smirnov] transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against [President Biden] after expressing bias against [Biden] and his presidential candidacy,” Weiss’ office said in a statement announcing the charges.

In 2020, Smirnov told the FBI that Burisma executives had told him in 2015 and 2016 that they hired Hunter Biden to the company’s board to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.” Joe Biden was leading Ukraine policy for the Obama administration at that time, and has subsequently boasted that he got a Ukrainian prosecutor, who was investigating the company for corruption, fired after he threatened to withhold approximately $1 billion in aid for Ukraine. (Read more from “DOJ Charges Informant Who Provided FBI Details About Alleged Bribery Scheme Involving Burisma, Bidens” HERE)

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DOJ Finally Acknowledges Hunter Biden Laptop’s Legitimacy

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has, for the first time, officially acknowledged the legitimacy of the data found on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop. The revelation comes as part of a court filing responding to Biden’s request to have federal firearm charges against him dismissed.

The court documents, filed on Tuesday, outline how IRS and FBI investigators obtained a search warrant for tax violations related to Biden, leading them to various backup data accounts. The filing underscores that investigators “already obtained” a substantial portion of the laptop data from Apple, including information from Biden’s iCloud account.

The court filings mention that investigators later acquired the physical laptop, which Biden had reportedly left at a computer store. A search warrant was obtained for the laptop, and the results were described as “largely duplicative of information investigators had already obtained from Apple.”

This acknowledgment marks a notable shift in the narrative surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop, which became a focal point of controversy before the 2020 election. Following the New York Post’s initial report on the laptop, Democratic officials, media outlets, and social media platforms faced backlash, with claims of “Russian disinformation” attempting to discredit the laptop’s contents. A letter from 51 former intelligence officials falsely asserting Russian involvement further fueled the narrative.

Social media giants Facebook and Twitter censored the New York Post’s reporting, and President Joe Biden himself referred to the laptop contents as “Russia disinformation” during his 2020 campaign. However, recent court filings by the DOJ confirm the authenticity of the laptop data, adding a new layer to the ongoing saga.

Despite initial efforts to dismiss the laptop contents as misinformation, the FBI reportedly knew of the authenticity of the laptop’s contents through an interview with Hunter Biden’s former business associate, Tony Bobulinski. Bobulinski confirmed the veracity of the laptop’s contents during an interview with the agency on October 23, 2020.

The DOJ’s recent acknowledgment is part of the response to Hunter Biden’s investigation for federal firearm charges, which his legal team sought to dismiss in December. Biden faces three federal gun charges related to an alleged illegal purchase of a revolver while battling drug addiction. While he pleaded not guilty in October 2023, the charges could carry a potential prison sentence of up to 25 years.

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DOJ Files Statement of Interest in Lawsuit From Transgender Inmate

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The U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in a lawsuit brought in Georgia claiming that the denial of transgender care violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

“People with gender dysphoria should be able to seek the full protections of the American with Disabilities Act [sic], just like other people with disabilities,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “We are committed to ensuring constitutional conditions inside our jails and prisons so that those detained inside these facilities, including people with gender dysphoria can live safely and receive needed medical care. The U.S. Constitution requires that people incarcerated in jails and prisons receive necessary medical care, treatment and services to address serious medical conditions.”

The lawsuit alleges that the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) violated a transgender inmate’s rights under the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and the U.S. Constitution by denying treatment for transgenderism.

“The protections of the U.S. Constitution and the Americans with Disabilities Act do not stop at the doorsteps of our jails and prisons,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan for the Northern District of Georgia. “Our office remains committed to ensuring that all people with disabilities, including those with gender dysphoria, continue to receive access to such medically necessary treatments, even while they are in custody.”

In another case from Missouri, Kelly McSean, a transgender inmate convicted of rape and pedophilia, has filed a civil rights lawsuit after being denied female undergarments at the St. Francois County Jail and South Missouri Mental Health Center.

(Read more from “DOJ Files Statement of Interest in Lawsuit From Transgender Inmate” HERE)

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Biden’s DOJ Restricts Ex-Official From Discussing Details on Hunter Prosecutor’s Authority

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Revelations have emerged regarding restrictions imposed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on a former official testifying before Congress about the authority of top Hunter Biden prosecutor David Weiss. Lesley Wolf, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, testified before the House Judiciary Committee on December 14, but was explicitly prohibited from discussing the intricacies of Weiss’ charging authority in the Hunter Biden case.

During Wolf’s testimony, she was asked about Weiss’ charging authority, to which she responded, “I am not authorized to speak on the particulars of any ongoing matter.” The limitations on her testimony drew attention, with Wolf indicating that she lacked authorization to discuss the details of Weiss’ authority.

At the heart of the matter is the controversy surrounding Weiss’ charging authority, which gained traction following whistleblower allegations suggesting that analysts were enticed with financial incentives to manipulate their conclusions in the Hunter Biden case. The situation took an unexpected turn as Wolf, a former DOJ official, declined to provide specific details.

In October, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart Goldberg testified that the DOJ Tax Division had approval authority over Weiss’ investigative steps and any potential tax charges in the Hunter Biden case. The testimony of IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, accusing DOJ officials, including Wolf, of providing preferential treatment to Hunter Biden, has added fuel to the controversy.

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‘Coming After You!’ DOJ Takes Targeting of Trump Supporters to Unnerving Level

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. . .[Trump supporters] are called MAGA extremists, even terrorists. If they also protest abortion they’re targeted for SWAT-style FBI raids. If they challenge false COVID claims, they’re voices are suppressed on social media. If they doubt the 2020 election because of Democrat machinations with the law, they’re “insurrectionists.”

But now documents show that Jack Smith, the special counsel trying to make a case that Trump is a criminal for urging supporters to “peacefully” protest what they – and many others – viewed as a corrupt 2020 election, has taken the agenda against Trump’s supporters to the next step. He’s demanding access to their social media information.

As a commentary at The Gateway Pundit charged, “THEY’RE COMING AFTER YOU.”

It explained that the DOJ has demanded a “list of all [Twitter] users who retweeted, liked, or mentioned President Trump’s Twitter account.”

A report at The Federalist said a newly uncovered document shows a court ordered X to provide a ton of information about Trump’s account, “including ‘advertising information, including advertising IDs, ad activity, and ad topic preferences,’ as well as IP addresses ‘used to create, login, and use the account’ and privacy and account settings.” (Read more from “‘Coming After You!’ DOJ Takes Targeting of Trump Supporters to Unnerving Level” HERE)

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DOJ Declined Top Hunter Biden Prosecutor’s Request for Additional Authority, Testimony Confirms

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) declined a request by Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss for additional charging authority for the Hunter Biden case in spring 2022, prior to his special counsel appointment.

Weiss, the lead prosecutor in the Hunter Biden investigation, testified Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee and described a call with two DOJ officials who turned down his request for special attorney authority under section 515, according to a transcript of his testimony reviewed by the Daily Caller.

Weiss spoke on the phone with Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer, his main point of contact, and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General (PADAG) John Carlin after he reached out about extending the investigation into D.C. and California.

“I initiated email contact with Mr.Carlin, and I subsequently had a conversation with John Carlin, and I believe Brad Weinsheimer was on the call,” Weiss testified.

Weiss described how the DOJ officials told him to follow the normal charging process instead of giving him the extra authority. (Read more from “DOJ Declined Top Hunter Biden Prosecutor’s Request for Additional Authority, Testimony Confirms” HERE)

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GOP Says DOJ Shut Down Potential Campaign Finance Prosecution in Hunter Case

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House Republicans Friday accused the Department of Justice of quashing an investigation into a wealthy Democratic Party donor who helped pay off some of Hunter Biden’s unpaid taxes.

The House Ways and Means Committee pointed to the trove of material it obtained last month from IRS whistleblowers that included an allegation that a top prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware dismissed IRS agents’ worries about a potential campaign finance violation related to the donor, Kevin Morris.

The whistleblowers provided the material, which was used in the Department of Justice’s investigation into Hunter Biden, after they testified to Congress that they had witnessed the DOJ extend preferential treatment to Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, and allow statutes of limitations to expire for certain tax crimes that could have been brought against him.

Hunter Biden is expected to be charged for evading taxes in 2017 and 2018, but other years that the whistleblowers say he was under investigation for remain unaccounted for. (Read more from “GOP Says DOJ Shut Down Potential Campaign Finance Prosecution in Hunter Case” HERE)

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FBI, DOJ Officials Were ‘Openly Mocking’ Congressional Inquiries Into Hunter Biden Investigation, Memo Alleges

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Officials from the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) were “openly mocking” congressional inquiries about the Hunter Biden investigation into his taxes and firearms possession, a newly released IRS memo alleges.

IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley wrote a memo in December 2020 outlining the Hunter Biden investigation and potential obstacles to gathering additional evidence. One of those obstacles was the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the District of Delaware and the FBI allegedly ignoring congressional requests and “openly mocking” the lawmakers who sent the requests, Shapley said in the memo.

“The FBI is a participating agency that is forcing decisions upon IRS-CI even though the only viable charges are currently tax charges. The assigned AUSA does not allow dissenting opinion without verbal admonishment,” Shapley’s memo reads.

“The USAO and FBI received congressional inquiries concerning this investigation and have repeatedly ignored their requests, openly mocking the members of congress who made the requests. It appears that someone at DOJ leaked information to the media after our day of action,” the IRS agent added. (Read more from “FBI, DOJ Officials Were ‘Openly Mocking’ Congressional Inquiries Into Hunter Biden Investigation, Memo Alleges” HERE)

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