McGlinchey in the News
Hunter Biden Due in Court Wednesday
Read Time: 1 minNews Nation interviewed McGlinchey Member Bob Driscoll (Washington, DC) for his unique insight into Hunter Biden’s upcoming appearance in Federal Court for a plea hearing on tax charges.
The judge is essentially going to see if the plea was entered into knowingly and voluntarily by Hunter Biden and is going look and see the terms of what he was charged with. The judge is not going to go back and say, well, he could have been charged with this, or he could have been charged with that, or the FBI dropped the ball. That’s more of a matter for the House oversight.
The one, I would say, minor complication here that is worth watching is that Hunter’s lawyers have entered into what’s called a Rule 11C Plea, meaning the government and Hunter’s lawyers have entered into an agreement as to what the specific sentence will be. Most times, when you plead guilty, you plead guilty. There might be a second sentencing recommendation that’s agreed to, but everyone agrees the sentence is up to the judge. Here, if the judge does not sign off on this sentence now, the judge has to reject the plea agreement in its entirety, and the parties go back to the drawing board.
Unlike most plea hearings, tomorrow, the judge will either agree to this plea deal, and essentially the sentence will be set at least in principle by tomorrow. If she doesn’t, then it’s back to square one. But again, I view it as unlikely that she’s going to upset an agreement that the parties have reached.
Click here for the full interview; Bob appears at 1:45.