When last we left Hunter Biden and his legal team, they were busy being scorched by U.S. District Court Judge Mark Scarsi in the California criminal tax case pending against Biden (and currently set to go to trial in September). As I noted in our reporting on the matter:
But there’s an even bigger problem with the motion than that: Biden’s lawyers contended in the motion that Weiss only brought charges against Biden after he was appointed as Special Counsel. Which, as Scarsi very pointedly notes in his order, is false (emphasis mine):
The Court orders Mr. Biden’s counsel to show cause why sanctions should not be imposed for making false statements in the motion.
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In support of his motion, Mr. Biden asserts, several times, that Special Counsel Weiss “brought no charges [against Mr. Biden] until after he received the Special Counsel title . . . .” (Mot. 5; accord id. at 6…
