Hunter Biden's legal team caught trying to manipulate the case by falsely identifying themselves in a phone call
According to the committee's attorney, Theodore Kittila, attorney Jessica Bengels pretended to be a member of his team and attempted to remove IRS documents from the trial.
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Hunter Biden's legal team is in trouble and could face sanctions after attempting to manipulate the trial facing the U.S. president's son. Specifically, one of his lawyers is accused of "misrepresenting her identity" during a call to the court in charge of the case in an attempt to have documents that could be damaging to Hunter Biden removed from court records.
It all started Tuesday morning when Delaware District Judge Maryellen Noreika received an amicus curiae brief from the House Ways and Means Committee. This report included the transcribed testimony of two IRS whistleblowers who were interviewed on May 26 and June 1 and was to be sent to the Court by providing valid arguments for the trial against Joe Biden's son.
In the letter, The New York Post explains, Hunter was said to have benefited from a "political interference which calls into question the propriety of the investigation" and had used it to commit alleged crimes, including felony tax evasion, failure to register as a foreign agent, and even money laundering.
'Amicus curiae' brief disappears from the record
In principle, the documents were included and were to be part of the evidence at trial. But mysteriously, during Tuesday afternoon, they disappeared from the file. This was explained by the committee's lead attorney, Theodore Kittila, during a letter sent to the judge in charge of the case to which the NY Post had access:
Kittila began to investigate what could have happened and soon discovered that a lawyer on Hunter Biden's team, Jessica Bengels, "misrepresented her identity" and claimed to be part of Mr. Kittila's team. She did so in an "attempt to improperly convince the Clerk's Office to remove the amicus materials from the docket," Kittila described in an email that was summarized in Noreika's order:
Hunter Biden's team claims it was a misunderstanding
After discovering the deception, Noreika temporarily sealed the document and gave Bengels a deadline of 9:30 p.m. Tuesday to explain what had happened. Half an hour before the deadline, the lawyer filed an affidavit in which she assured that it was all a misunderstanding:
Shortly thereafter, Hunter's legal team submitted a letter to the judge confirming that it was all about a miscommunication between Bengels and the employee who received the call. In addition, they said, they hoped that the attached statement would serve to dispel any doubts: