In not so shocking news, Hunter Biden’s legal team has evidently engaged in in some dirty tricks.

Hunter Biden‘s lawyers have responded to allegations that they conspired to lie to a court clerk in the First Son’s criminal case in Delaware by saying the incident was simply an ‘unfortunate misunderstanding.’ 

Delaware Judge Maryellen Noreika had ordered the First Son’s attorneys to explain themselves by 9pm Tuesday or be sanctioned.

Just before the deadline, Hunter’s Latham & Watkins lawyer Matthew Salerno filed a response claiming the incident was down to ‘an unfortunate and unintentional miscommunication.’ 

Well now, let’s take a look at what this unfortunate little blip actually was. OH! You don’t say! Someone misrepresented themself to the court and got the case removed and sealed??

Earlier today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith filed a brief to Judge Noreika, suggesting that she toss Hunter’s ‘sweetheart’ plea deal with Delaware prosecutors due to claims they gave the President’s son preferential treatment.

It is claimed that someone from Hunter’s attorney Chris Clark’s former law firm later called the Delaware clerk – pretending to be from the office of Smith’s attorney, Theodore Kittila – asking them to remove the original filing and, with it, 448 pages of Congressional testimony from the two IRS investigators who worked on the case.

The documents were then taken down and sealed.

As you can read at the Daily Mail link, the correspondence between Kittila and Hunter’s attorney Chris Clark is rather blunt and to the point. Clark then claims this was just an unfortunate mishap and phone number confusion that led to this issue. This, after the judge ordered them to account for themselves by 9pm last night. 

Scandal in Delaware on eve of Hunter Biden plea deal. Judge Noreika has given Hunter’s lawyers to 9pm to explain why they should not be SANCTIONED for “misrepresentations to the Court… to improperly convince the Clerk's Office to remove [GOP lawyer] materials from the docket” pic.twitter.com/h7SpGTMQKs

— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) July 25, 2023

Which essentially gave Hunter’s lawyers less than six hours to respond. And they did, barely. Again, this was all just a misunderstanding. Hunter’s attorneys are doing the best they can you see, and their law clerks were being overly helpful and the court clerks were just very glad to help out!

“Hi Ted, Following up on our recent telephone conversation, the woman who called was a Jessica Bengels,” confirmed court official Samantha Grimes. “… She said she worked with Theodore Kittila and it was important the document was removed immediately or they could file a motion to seal. I do deeply apologize for all the confusion on our part.”

Bengels is the director of litigation services at the New York-based law firm of Latham & Watkins, where Hunter Biden attorney Chris Clark was formerly a partner.

So, NOT a law clerk and NOT even a member of Hunter’s legal team! This after, one reads that they wanted all the IRS whistleblower testimony and other information taken down because of personal information listed that’s been in public view for several months.

The letters between GOP lawyer Ted Kittila and Hunter Biden’s lawyer Chris Clark are quite something: “Someone from your side unilaterally contacted the Court and had our filing taken down.” pic.twitter.com/zhzstPsS24

— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) July 26, 2023

Why now? Well, Hunter has to appear in court concerning his very lenient plea deal concerning his tax shenanigans. 

Hunter Biden is expected to plead guilty to a pair of misdemeanor tax charges in a Delaware federal court on Wednesday in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that will allow the president’s son to avoid prosecution on a gun charge.

The deal follows a yearslong investigation by the federal prosecutor in Delaware, David C. Weiss, a Trump appointee who was kept on by the Biden Justice Department. If the judge approves the deal, Hunter Biden would not serve time in prison.

No jail time and a slap on the wrist for charges that would land any normal American in prison for years? I tell you what, the Biden family has got it going on! 

Yet, the legal dirty tricks that were exposed yesterday kind of point to a bit of desperation on the part of Hunter and his legal team. 

The IRS whistleblower testimony was devastating, illuminating, and damaging. David Weiss and Merrick Garland are probably trying to figure out how to spin this as no big deal, even as we find out more details of how deeply involved Hunter and Joe were in the Burisma/Ukraine scandal. 

Keep in mind, this latest desperate dirty trick involved a supposed clerk who really is an attorney with a completely different law firm. And, as Judge Noreika helpfully reminded both parties, Hunter’s legal team had never filed a formal request to seal any information prior to yesterday’s events. 

Again, all of this happened just before Hunter appears in court this morning to find out if his plea deal/slap on the wrist for major tax evasion (which the media is calling minor even though it involves well over $200K in tax evasion) is accepted or not. If it’s accepted, then he skates on the gun charges. 

Hunter Biden will plead guilty today to two misdemeanor charges that should be felonies. He failed to pay $200,000 in taxes (that we know of).

If you or I evaded $200K in taxes, our homes and bank accounts would be seized and we’d be serving time in prison.

— Eric Matheny ️ (@ericmmatheny) July 26, 2023

The timing is just a wee bit suspect to consider this anything other than a dirty trick. I don’t buy the ‘it was just miscommunication and an honest mistake’ do you? 

Now it’s all up to the judge to decide the merits of this sweetheart plea deal. 

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