I have no words. A member of Hunter Biden’s legal team allegedly pretended to be a Republican attorney to block information from coming out about the IRS whistleblowers.
Hunter is expected to plead guilty to “federal charges of tax evasion and weapons crimes.”
Main Players:
From The New York Post:
The drama began in the morning when the House Ways and Means Committee filed an amicus brief to Delaware US District Judge Maryellen Noreika arguing that the 53-year-old had benefited from “political interference which calls into question the propriety of the investigation” into alleged crimes including money laundering, felony tax evasion and failure to register as a foreign agent.The filing included testimony by two IRS whistleblowers who sat for transcribed interviews May 26 and June 1.What happened next was outlined in a letter sent to the judge Tuesday afternoon by the committee’s top lawyer, Theodore Kittila.“[A]t approximately 1:30 p.m., we received word that our filing was removed from the docket,” Kittila said. “We promptly contacted the Clerk’s office, and we were advised that someone contacted the Court representing that they worked with my office [emphasis original] and that they were asking the Court to remove this from the docket. We immediately advised that this was inaccurate. The Clerk’s Office responded that we would need to re-file. We have done so now.”Kittila included email exchanges with court officials and Hunter Biden’s attorneys in the fresh filing.“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.
Kittila confronted Hunter’s team. The attorneys allegedly tried to explain that “the filing contained confidential tax and identifying information, even though the whistleblower testimony has been public for more than a month.”
However, the emails contained time stamps. Those time stamps allegedly “indicated the request to take the document down was made after Kittila refused a request to file the testimony under seal.”
“As far as I am aware, the managing attorney from Latham called the clerk’s office to note that personal tax information of the defendant had been filed in a non reacted [sic] manner and to inquire regarding having the information sealed, as we told you we would and as you said you understood,” Clark wrote. “As far as I am aware the clerk took the filing down on their own accord. Your attempts to publicly file my client’s personal financial information with no protection ls [sic] are improper, illegal and in violation of applicable rules … We will seek all appropriate sanctions in response to your actions.”“You should probably take a step back from your statements,” Kittila warned. “The clerk’s office advised that it was represented to her that the request was being made by my firm. We will be advising Judge Noreika of this improper conduct.”“I stand by all of my statements and I hope you have an affidavit from the clerk in support of yours,” Clark replied.
Noreika supposedly told Hunter’s team they had until 9 PM on Tuesday to prove why the court shouldn’t sanction them. She also reminded them that none of them had “formally filed any request to seal evidence in the matter.”
We won’t know the answer because Noreika “ordered the filing sealed until close of business Wednesday.”
CLICK HERE FOR FULL VERSION OF THIS STORY