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BREAKING: Hunter Biden's Sweetheart Plea Deal 'Falling Apart' in Court

UPDATE II: After the original plea deal fell apart and was rejected by the judge, Hunter Biden has entered a not guilty plea. 

UPDATE: The plea deal is being narrowed. The judge is reportedly asking Hunter about which foreign companies he worked for and is dissatisfied he was able to skate a felony after lying on a federal firearm background check form.  


***Original post***

Hunter Biden entered a federal courtroom in Delaware Wednesday morning with the expectation of pleading guilty to a pair of misdemeanor tax charges after being given a sweetheart plea deal by prosecutors in June

"The court papers indicate the younger Biden has tentatively agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges of failure to pay in 2017 and 2018. The combined tax liability is roughly $1.2 million over those years, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe details of the agreement that are not yet public. Prosecutors plan to recommend a sentence of probation for those counts, these people said. Biden's representatives have said he previously paid back the IRS what he owed," the Washington Post reported at the time. "Additionally, Biden plans to admit to illegally possessing a weapon following his 2018 purchase of a handgun. As part of that admission, he expects to be entered in a diversion program, a less punitive form of sentence typically applied to people with substance abuse problems. In all, prosecutors would recommend two years of probation and diversion conditions. If Biden successfully meets the conditions of the diversion program, the gun charge would be removed from his record at the end of that period, the people said."

After more than an hour inside the courtroom (for a procedure that was expected to be routine and quick), where technology is not allowed, the plea deal is falling apart. The judge has the authority to throw it out. 

"This deal is by no means being accepted by a judge," Fox News reports. 

CNN says it's dead. 

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith urged the judge to consider new testimony from IRS whistleblowers that the case was not handled properly and unethically. The whistleblower testimony came nearly a month after Biden was given his plea deal. 

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