The dinner was held in honor of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and was attended by Attorney General Merrick Garland, who leads the Justice Department. Hunter Biden has agreed to plead guilty to the tax charges and is also entering into a pretrial diversion agreement regarding a separate felony charge of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance, according to his attorneys. However, the plea agreement still needs to be approved by a judge.
The dinner occurred just hours after House Republicans released testimony from two IRS whistleblowers who alleged that the Department of Justice, FBI, and IRS interfered with the Biden investigation. One of the whistleblowers, IRS Criminal Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley Jr., testified that Assistant United States Attorney in Delaware, Lesley Wolf, told him "optics were a driving factor in the decision on whether to execute a search warrant" at President Biden's Delaware home about the Hunter Biden investigation.
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Attorney General Garland has faced criticism for Hunter Biden's minor penalties and lack of prison time. Senator Rick Scott has demanded that Garland thoroughly explains to the American people why a plea deal was struck between Hunter Biden and the U.S. attorney in Delaware to spare him from serving any time in prison. Scott noted that in a recent case in Virginia, a mother faced a prison sentence of up to 24 months because she was using controlled substances while she owned a firearm. In another case, actor Wesley Snipes received three one-year sentences on tax charges. However, Hunter Biden will avoid prison time for the tax and firearms charges he faced thanks to a plea agreement that the Justice Department agreed to.
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In response to the criticism, Garland has faced a barrage of questions concerning Hunter Biden's minor penalties and lack of prison time. Scott wrote to Garland, "The reported plea agreement extended to President Biden's son is a farcical example of precisely that two-tiered approach to criminal justice by the DOJ under your leadership. What is the American public to take away from the outcome of this five-year investigation and leniency shown to Hunter Biden on both the federal tax violations and firearms offenses he committed?"
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