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Who is Maryellen Noreika, the Trump-appointed judge presiding over Hunter Biden case?

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The judge deferred the plea deal agreement in court Wednesday.

ByMeredith Deliso
July 27, 2023, 3:56 AM

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President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden was in federal court on Wednesday as a judge weighed whether to reject or accept the terms of a plea deal .. https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/hunter-biden-hearing/?id=101642512 .. he negotiated last month with federal prosecutors.

Judge Maryellen Noreika, who is presiding over the case in Delaware federal court, deferred the plea deal after an hourslong, contentious hearing. She expressed concerns with the structure of the agreement and requested additional briefings from both parties in the coming weeks before determining the next steps.

"I'm not going to say I'm going to accept the agreement, I'm not going to say I'll deny it," she said, acknowledging that her probing threw "a little bit of a curveball" into the proceeding.

MORE: Hunter Biden live updates - https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/hunter-biden-hearing/?id=101642512

Noreika was confirmed as a district judge in the District of Delaware in August 2018, following a nomination by former President Donald Trump in December 2017 to fill a seat vacated by Gregory Sleet upon his pending retirement.

Noreika worked in private practice from 1993 to 2018 prior to becoming a federal judge, according to her federal biography .. https://www.ded.uscourts.gov/judge/judge-maryellen-noreika .

She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1993. She also holds a graduate degree from Columbia University and a bachelor of science from Lehigh University.


Judge Maryellen Noreika
United States District Court, District of Delaware

The initial plea deal came following a five-year Justice Department probe.

Federal authorities with the U.S. attorney's office in Delaware, led by U.S. Attorney David Weiss, a Trump-era appointee, had been investigating Hunter Biden since 2018.

Prosecutors have examined whether he paid adequate taxes on millions of dollars of his income, including money he made from multiple overseas business ventures. They also explored allegations that Hunter Biden lied about his drug use on a gun application form in 2018, despite later acknowledging that he was addicted to drugs around that time.

In June, Hunter Biden agreed to plead guilty .. https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/hunter-biden-charges/republicans-on-capitol-hill-vow-to-continue-investigation-into-bidens-100234348?id=98765518 .. to a pair of tax-related misdemeanors and enter into a pretrial diversion agreement that would enable him to avoid prosecution on one felony gun charge.

After the plea deal fell apart on Wednesday, Hunter Biden entered a not guilty plea to the charges.

MORE: What to know about the Hunter Biden federal investigations
https://abcnews.go.com/US/hunter-biden-congressional-scrutiny--doj-charges/story?id=97201254

Republican lawmakers have for weeks publicly decried the plea agreement as a "sweetheart deal."

Ahead of Wednesday's court appearance, Republicans pressed Noreika to consider denying his plea agreement until the court reviews testimony from a pair of IRS whistleblowers .. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/irs-whistleblowers-testify-gop-claims-doj-mishandled-hunter/story?id=101491473 .

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[INSERT: The testimony from the two individuals — Greg Shapley and an unidentified IRS agent — detailed what they called a pattern of “slow-walking investigative steps” and delaying enforcement actions months before elections. But it’s unclear whether the conflict they describe amounts to internal disagreement about how to pursue the wide-ranging probe or a pattern of interference and preferential treatment. Department policy has long warned prosecutors to take care in charging cases with potential political overtones around the time of an election, to avoid any possible influence on the outcome.
GOP releases testimony of whistleblowers claiming interference in Hunter Biden case
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There you go. And according to what Zeigler said you have the above situation:

IRS whistleblowers lash out at federal officials in fiery Hunter Biden hearing: 5 takeaways
Phillip M. Bailey USA TODAYJuly 19, 2023
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Whistleblowers target Hunter Biden's tax delinquency

Ziegler alleged David Weiss, the U.S. Attorney for Delaware, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, previously agreed certain felony charges against Hunter Biden were warranted.

But he said other Justice Department officials believed no jury would convict him given given his drug addiction and the death of his brother, Beau Biden.

Hunter Biden improperly claimed business deductions for a range of personal expenses, Zeigler said, from his children's college tuition to stays for his drug dealer at a Hollywood hotel. In written testimony, he said he was denied a request to interview Hunter Biden’s adult children, alleging prosecutors said that would "get us into hot water."

"I do not want my colleagues at the IRS, FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies to go through my frustrating journey," Zeigler said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/19/irs-whistleblowers-hunter-biden-agent-x/70424952007/

Repeat:
But it’s unclear whether the conflict they describe amounts to internal disagreement about how to pursue the wide-ranging probe or a pattern of interference and preferential treatment. Department policy has long warned prosecutors to take care in charging cases with potential political overtones around the time of an election, to avoid any possible influence on the outcome.
GOP releases testimony of whistleblowers claiming interference in Hunter Biden case
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Now go home and create a conspiracy around the news that the FBI resisted investigating Trump for over a year ..

[Insert: Using the GOPs weak reasoning the conflicts re Trump's Jan. 6 case within the FBI, and the time taken to get on with it, would simply be irrefutable evidence the FBI went slowly to advantage Trump. See FBI resisted opening probe into Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for more than a year
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According to an attorney for the GOP-led House Ways and Means Committee in court documents filed Tuesday, the two whistleblowers have said the younger Biden "appears to have benefitted from political interference which calls into question the propriety of the investigation."

The White House has repeatedly sought to distance the president from the probe. President Joe Biden has said he and his son never discussed his foreign business dealings and there are no indications that the federal investigation has involved the president in any way.

ABC News' Lucien Bruggeman contributed to this report.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/maryellen-noreika-trump-appointed-judge-weighing-hunter-bidens/story?id=101670909

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