Under an agreement with the Justice Department, the president’s son agreed to probation for filing his taxes late, and he can avoid a charge that he lied about his drug use when he bought a gun.
Did Hunter Biden get the same deal that would be given to someone who was not the son of the president of the United States? Douglas Berman, a professor of law at Ohio State University and a sentencing expert, read the court papers unsealed Tuesday morning and said that it was difficult to assess from the filings whether Biden received a sweetheart deal. The crimes to which Biden is pleading guilty, Berman said, are ones that the average person is rarely prosecuted for because they are usually o