Follow the cash.
It’s the primary lesson of white-collar prosecution 101 — yet there are serious questions whether David Weiss, the recently appointed “special prosecutor” in command of the Hunter Biden corruption probe, performed that easy task.
If Weiss failed, it may very well be a greater crime than anything Donald Trump has done. In truth, white-collar attorneys tell me it suggests considered one of the most important coverups since Watergate at the best levels of the US government.
Probably the most damaging stuff on Hunter’s laptop weren’t all those photos of Hunter doing drugs and hanging out naked with hookers.
As an alternative, it’s the paper trail of his manifold business entities that served as vehicles for his influence-peddling with shady foreign partners.
Hunter made quite a lot of money representing himself to those people as an authority in oil or whatever else he was touting.
As everyone knows, his real value was his last name and access to probably the most powerful people on this planet, his dad, Sleepy Joe Biden.
It ought to be a prosecutor’s wet dream: The goal, a ne’er-do-well son of a big-name politician, is running a string of suspicious, multimillion-dollar outfits and taking in bundles of money from China, Ukraine, Russia and God knows where else.
A federal judge in Delaware dismissed tax misdemeanor charges against first son Hunter Biden.
The sordid mess caught the eye of the FBI after the goal’s laptop was turned over to the feds.
Joe Biden, VP to Obama on the time, was investigating corruption in Ukraine, while Hunter was working with the Ukrainian oil company Burisma, itself investigated for bribery.
Emails from the goal suggest he must repay his old man, aka the “Big Guy,” when deals are done.
Banks, meanwhile, are at all times suspicious that cash is being laundered and/or utilized in nefarious schemes.
On this case, the goal’s activities left a paper trail miles long because he’s dealing in big bucks.
Transactions above $10,000, particularly those with overseas entities, are closely monitored by major banks under a wide range of laws.
Suspicious deal
However the denouement to all of that is the next: A bizarre, cushy deal offered up by Weiss by which Hunter gets to plead guilty to failing to pay his taxes for 2 years, presumably when he was high on coke.
He’s also guilty on gun charges because what self-respecting cokehead with a hooker habit could be without an illegal firearm?
Suspicious? You’re not alone. For the record, I just about stayed out of the Hunter circus because I cover finance and banking.
But I used to be told last week by several of my sources that that is one huge banking story.
Perhaps Weiss did the legwork with the banks and located nothing. But every high-level white-collar lawyer I spoke to — a few of them former prosecutors — told me they doubt Weiss took even the essential steps in tracing the Hunter money trail since the final result was so lame.
Which means subpoenaing bank records, between the primary son and the creeps across the globe, and since he’s at it, taking a take a look at the president’s bank records as well for kickbacks on possible influence peddling.
As one source told me: “Every bank in America knows where money is coming from and where it’s going. Based on what we’ve seen, it doesn’t appear like Weiss subpoenaed Hunter or the president’s bank records. If the US Attorney who has been this for years doesn’t know the sources of the cash, that’s incredible because banks have that info handy.”
Joe Biden appears to have been more involved in Hunter Biden’s business dealings than he has claimed to have been. AP
Why would Weiss lie down for the Bidens? Good query.
He was appointed as US Attorney for Delaware (the Bidens’ home state) by Trump. Nonetheless, he now works for Joe Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland.
And the DC swamp makes for some strange bedfellows. Recall, the Trump-hating ex-FBI Director James Comey was once a Republican, and should be so far as I do know.
So, I lobbed a call into Weiss to inquire if he ever looked into the Biden money trail kept on the banks.
No answer.
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Luckily, his crappy plea deal was recently nixed by a federal judge who also found it suspiciously lame.
Unluckily, Garland recently gave Weiss a second likelihood as a “special prosecutor” to look into stuff he presumably couldn’t or didn’t during his four-year probe.
Luckily again, the GOP took the House within the midterms, and an investigation by the Oversight Committee run by Rep. James Comer has turned up all varieties of interesting stuff, including Joe Biden’s seemingly greater than casual relationship with Hunter’s suspect business.
In line with testimony provided by Devon Archer, a former Hunter crony, Joe Biden appeared to have lied not knowing what Hunter did for a living; he was on calls with a few of those foreign types from whom Hunter was searching for tens of millions of dollars.
Perhaps our brain-addled president simply forgot about all those calls. Either way, not an important look.
But who needs Sleepy Joe’s recollection of events when you’ve bank records? Comer plans to subpoena those as well, each Hunter’s and the president’s, he says.
We may finally discover what the Inspector Clouseau of the Justice Department missed — or selected to disregard.