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Hunter Biden's lawyers face SANCTIONS after being accused of lying to the clerk in his criminal tax case as judge orders First Son's attorneys to explain themselves by tonight
Hunter Biden's lawyers face potential sanctions after allegedly lying to the clerk in his criminal case.
Delaware Judge Maryellen Noreika ordered the First Son's attorneys to explain themselves by 9pm Tuesday or be sanctioned.
The alleged dirty trick was a ploy to remove testimony from IRS whistleblowers about the Justice Department's lackluster criminal investigation into Hunter Biden's tax offenses from the court docket.
Earlier today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith filed a brief to Judge Noreika, suggesting that she toss Hunter's 'sweetheart' plea deal with Delaware prosecutors due to claims they gave the President's son preferential treatment.
It is claimed that someone from Hunter's attorney Chris Clark's former law firm later called the Delaware clerk – pretending to be from the office of Smith's attorney, Theodore Kittila – asking them to remove the original filing and, with it, 448 pages of Congressional testimony from the two IRS investigators who worked on the case.
The documents were then taken down and sealed.
Kittila, quickly filed a second outraged letter to the judge.
'We promptly contacted the clerk's office, and we were advised that someone contacted the court representing that they worked with my office and that they were asking the court to remove this from the docket,' Kittila wrote to the judge.
'We immediately advised that this was inaccurate.'
In a fiery email exchange with Kittila about the apparent skullduggery, Hunter's lawyer Clark hit back, denying any improper conduct and claiming 'the clerk took the filing down on their own accord'.
But the top Republican's lawyer included in his filing a copy of an email from the Delaware clerk, backing up his claims.
'The woman who called was a Jessica Bengels,' he wrote adding her phone number.
'She said she worked with Theodore Kittila and it was important the document was removed immediately,' the clerk, Sam Grimes, wrote to Kittila.
According to Grimes's email, the alleged trickster is New York-based Latham & Watkins litigation services director Jessica Bengels.
Bengels' LinkedIn page says she has been 'litigation services counsel' at the firm since January 2023, and has worked there since 2006. She went to Brown University then Fordham law school.
Clark worked for Latham & Watkins up until April this year.
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Sounds like grounds for disbarment. How many lives will Hunter wreck?
Hunter Biden's lawyers face potential sanctions after allegedly lying to the clerk in his criminal case.
Delaware Judge Maryellen Noreika ordered the First Son's attorneys to explain themselves by 9pm Tuesday or be sanctioned.
The alleged dirty trick was a ploy to remove testimony from IRS whistleblowers about the Justice Department's lackluster criminal investigation into Hunter Biden's tax offenses from the court docket.
Earlier today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith filed a brief to Judge Noreika, suggesting that she toss Hunter's 'sweetheart' plea deal with Delaware prosecutors due to claims they gave the President's son preferential treatment.
It is claimed that someone from Hunter's attorney Chris Clark's former law firm later called the Delaware clerk – pretending to be from the office of Smith's attorney, Theodore Kittila – asking them to remove the original filing and, with it, 448 pages of Congressional testimony from the two IRS investigators who worked on the case.
The documents were then taken down and sealed.
Kittila, quickly filed a second outraged letter to the judge.
'We promptly contacted the clerk's office, and we were advised that someone contacted the court representing that they worked with my office and that they were asking the court to remove this from the docket,' Kittila wrote to the judge.
'We immediately advised that this was inaccurate.'
In a fiery email exchange with Kittila about the apparent skullduggery, Hunter's lawyer Clark hit back, denying any improper conduct and claiming 'the clerk took the filing down on their own accord'.
But the top Republican's lawyer included in his filing a copy of an email from the Delaware clerk, backing up his claims.
'The woman who called was a Jessica Bengels,' he wrote adding her phone number.
'She said she worked with Theodore Kittila and it was important the document was removed immediately,' the clerk, Sam Grimes, wrote to Kittila.
According to Grimes's email, the alleged trickster is New York-based Latham & Watkins litigation services director Jessica Bengels.
Bengels' LinkedIn page says she has been 'litigation services counsel' at the firm since January 2023, and has worked there since 2006. She went to Brown University then Fordham law school.
Clark worked for Latham & Watkins up until April this year.
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Sounds like grounds for disbarment. How many lives will Hunter wreck?
