Trump-appointee David Weiss tapped as special counsel in Hunter Biden probe
Federal prosecutors said in new court filings that they had reached an "impasse" in plea negotiations with Hunter Biden's lawyers.
U.S. Attorney David Weiss holds a press conference Thursday, May 3, 2018, at his district office in Wilmington, Del.U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Friday that David Weiss, the federal prosecutor in Delaware who has led the criminal investigation of President Joe Biden's son,Garland said that Weiss, who was previously appointed by former President Donald Trump to investigate Hunter Biden, asked earlier this week to be named special counsel.
"Upon considering his request, as well as the extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter, I have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint him as special counsel," Garland said during a press conference at the Department of Justice. At nearly the same time Garland was announcing the special counsel investigation of the president's son, federal prosecutors revealed in new court filings that they had reached an "impasse" in plea negotiations with Hunter Biden's lawyers.
"The Government now believes that the case will not resolve short of a trial," they wrote in a federal filing in Delaware.
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