Retired senior Secret Service agent Don Mihalek, now an ABC News contributor, said the arrangement is “the cost of doing business for the Secret Service,” adding that under the federal law, the agency has a mandated protective responsibility for the president, the first family, and anybody else the president designates for protection.
It could be that Joe Biden decides that Hunter is protected well enough by the guards at whatever white collar facility he ends up at that it’s not worth the headache. (Assuming that Hunter does end up incarcerated, which I highly doubt; if anything he’d probably have home confinement in Malibu.)
Prosecution is a different issue. It is a prohibited substance under federal law anywhere in the United States. If a person were a habitual user of cannabis and failed to disclose it on the gun purchase form, that could amount to a criminal offence.
Not really relevant to this thread, since Hunter’s drug of choice appears to have been crack.
The three-judge panel on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sided against the law in a case involving Patrick Daniels, a Mississippi man who was convicted and sentenced to prison for possessing a firearm while being a marijuana user.
The law in question prohibits anyone who is an “unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance” from owning a firearm.
But the appeals court panel ruled that it was too broad when it was used in Daniels’ case and tossed out his conviction.
It would be hilarious if the NRA was the major force in getting Hunter Biden acquitted.
This is what was mentioned on many shows when the indictment dropped. Not only is it rarely charged, it may be ruled unconstitutional while it is being tried.
Logical move in the chess game. Once he gets information from this suit to show that they leaked without authority, next step is to sue the two of them for invasion of privacy, breach of statutory duty.
You called it. What are tomorrow’s winning lotto numbers, please?
Hunter Biden sues Rudy Giuliani, attorney Robert Costello for “hacking” laptop data
Hunter Biden sued Rudy Giuliani and his former attorney Tuesday, claiming they hacked and manipulated data on an external hard drive associated with his laptop.
Giuliani and the attorney, Robert Costello, have frequently acknowledged accessing the hard drive’s data. The lawsuit accuses them of having “dedicated an extraordinary amount of time and energy toward looking for, hacking into, tampering with, manipulating, copying, disseminating, and generally obsessing over data that they were given that was taken or stolen.”
I’ve long speculated that the whole story about the laptop was complete bullshit, and that what really happened was that Giuliani et al. illegally hacked Biden’s computer/phone/home network, and then put all of the files on a laptop which they gave to a blind Trump supporting computer repair person to “find”.
Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell said the new allegation from House Republicans “evaporates in thin air the moment facts come out.” Lowell said that in 2017, Hunter Biden made a “substantial investment” in Bohai Harvest Rosemont Partners, where Li is CEO. In 2019, the year of the wire transfers, Lowell said Hunter Biden was borrowing the funds using his equity as security, and the reason the wires went to the Wilmington address was because it was Hunter Biden’s only permanent address at the time.
“Drug addict with financial difficulties uses his dad’s address” is hardly a surprise.
