How a fight over immunity unraveled Hunter Biden’s plea deal
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Federal prosecutors and Hunter Biden’s attorneys entered a courtroom late last month hoping a judge would approve the plea deal they’d struck, even though they had already publicly disagreed about a key element: what immunity it offered the president’s son from potential additional criminal charges.
The deal seemed likely to go through if U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika didn’t prod them on that question.
But Noreika did ask. And as soon as she raised the issue of immunity, the agreement started to implode.
And in the three weeks since, efforts to negotiate a new deal have also foundered, doomed so far by the federal government’s insistence that any immunity offered be narrow while the FBI keeps investigating Hunter Biden’s work for foreign entities — and by the younger Biden’s equally fervent demand that any agreement he signs should put his legal troubles behind him.
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