Wednesday, January 17, 2024 – Federal prosecutors alleged in a scathing response to US first son, Hunter Biden's attempt to dismiss weapons charges against him, that his gun pouch was loaded with cocaine in October 2018.
Five years after Hunter's sister-in-law-turned-lover Hallie
Biden dumped Hunter’s firearm in a trash can behind a grocery store in
Delaware, FBI officials have now revealed some damning information after they
re-examined the pistol.
Agents removed the sealed Colt Cobra 38SPL revolver from a
state police vault to photograph the weapon sometime last year and found white
powder on the pouch that held the weapon, a court filing from special counsel
David Weiss revealed.
“An FBI chemist subsequently
analyzed the residue and determined that it was cocaine,” the 52-page document
read.
“To be clear,” the
prosecution motion added, “investigators literally found drugs on the pouch
where the defendant had kept his gun.”
Weiss’ team was responding to a motion to dismiss the gun
charges filed by Hunter Biden’s lawyers last month.
In the rebuttal, Weiss’ team recounted the evidence they had
to confirm that the troubled first son was using illicit drugs at the time he
completed a background check to buy the pistol and stated he was not addicted
to any illicit substance, committing a federal crime in the process.
At another point in the rebuttal, prosecutors referenced the
53-year-old Hunter Biden’s 2021 memoir “Beautiful Things” in which he “made
countless incriminating statements about his years-long drug usage.”
“The defendant’s choice to
sell a book containing these admissions not only made the government’s case
against him stronger but also increased a potential prosecution’s general
deterrence value,” Weiss’ team wrote.
Prosecutors noted that Hunter Biden ploughed ahead with
writing the book after he was made aware that local authorities had recovered
the weapon from an elderly man who was sorting recyclables from the trash can
and that there was an ongoing federal investigation into the matter.
They also pointed to messages, including ones Hunter
exchanged with Hallie, who had discarded the weapon about 11 days after he
bought it.
Hunter Biden’s legal team, led by attorney Abbe Lowell, has
claimed Weiss caved to “political pressure” by bringing the firearm charges in
Delaware.
This past July, Hunter Biden was poised to enter a jail-free
plea agreement for two misdemeanour counts of willful failure to pay taxes and
enter a diversion program for the felony federal firearms charge.
But the deal imploded during a dramatic courtroom hearing
once it became clear to the first son’s attorneys that the deal was not meant
to provide blanket immunity from prosecution for other offences.
A month later, Weiss, the Delaware US Attorney, was granted
special counsel status by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Hunter is now facing three federal gun-related felony
charges over the ordeal.
Additionally, he has three felony and six misdemeanour
counts pending against him in Los Angeles for allegedly evading $1.4 million in
taxes between 2016 and 2019.
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