特别顾问魏红星抨击了总统乔·拜登在他的最终报告中对他的调查的描述，称其受到了“原始政治”的影响详述他的调查总统的儿子亨特·拜登，这是由司法部周一公布的。
韦斯的工作最终导致了对亨特·拜登的两项独立的刑事定罪，他的父亲用一把全面赦免12月初，就在选举日的几周后。2024年7月，韦斯的办公室获得了特拉华州陪审团对三项重罪枪支指控的有罪判决，几个月后，在审判前夕，亨特·拜登承认了多项税务犯罪，包括六项重罪。
韦斯的报告长达27页，加上数百页的公开文件，结束了长达一年的充满政治色彩的调查，这仍然是拜登总统在国会和其他地方的政治对手似乎无穷无尽的素材来源。韦斯的检察官审查了亨特·拜登多年的吸毒和酗酒，他有争议的外国商业交易，以及他在2018年购买枪支的行为。
当拜登总统在12月初为亨特·拜登发布赦免令时，他声称“原始政治已经影响了”对他儿子的调查。
拜登写道:“任何一个理性的人在审视亨特案件的事实时，都不会得出任何其他结论，只是因为亨特是我的儿子而被挑选出来——这是错误的。”
韦斯在报告中批评了总统的主张。
“其他总统赦免了家庭成员，但在这样做的时候，没有人把这个机会作为一个机会，仅凭虚假指控诽谤司法部的公务员，”韦斯写道。
韦斯为自己的工作辩护说，这是“彻底、公正的调查，而不是党派政治。”
“许多法院的八名法官已经驳回了他们是选择性或报复动机的结果的说法，”韦斯写道。“质疑这些裁决，将党派偏见注入法律的独立实施，破坏了美国司法系统公平公正的基础。它侵蚀了公众对一个对维护法治至关重要的机构的信心。”
“这些起诉是彻底、公正调查的结果，而不是党派政治。许多法院的八名法官拒绝了他们是选择性或报复动机的结果的说法，”韦斯写道。
“质疑这些裁决，将党派偏见注入法律的独立实施，破坏了美国司法系统公平公正的基础。它侵蚀了公众对一个对维护法治至关重要的机构的信心，”韦斯写道。“这些毫无根据的指控毫无根据，重复这些指控会威胁到整个司法系统的完整性。”
韦斯说，由于赦免，他被阻止作出“额外的指控决定”关于亨特·拜登的行为超过11年的跨度，表明他可以对总统的儿子进行其他案件。然而，由于赦免，“因此，讨论是否应该追加指控是不合适的，”他写道。
亨特·拜登的法律团队表示，在韦斯的报告发布之前，他们没有机会阅读该报告。
亨特·拜登的律师阿贝·洛威尔(Abbe Lowell)称韦斯的调查是“滥用检察权的警示故事”，称韦斯的报告“继续忽略了他7年调查中的一些重大谜团”
洛厄尔说:“韦斯先生方便地省略了他在2023年以职业检察官建议的两项轻罪和一项转移枪支指控解决这项调查的提议。”“韦斯也未能解释为什么他违背了自己的协议，这一逆转是在法庭上的第11个小时发生的，因为他和他的办公室面临共和党人的猛烈攻击，他当时对一个没有加重枪支因素的人提出了前所未有的指控，这个人在被指控之前已经缴纳了整年的税款。”
联邦调查人员在2018年开始调查小拜登的税收，这是在他父亲成功竞选总统之前。据美国广播公司新闻报道，这项调查逐渐包括了对他在中国、乌克兰和其他地方的海外商业交易的审查以前报告过.
2023年夏天，韦斯办公室的检察官与亨特·拜登达成了一项认罪协议，允许他对两项与税收有关的轻罪认罪，并避免对一项重罪枪支指控的起诉。
若非交易失败了在一名联邦法官的讯问下，几个月后，韦斯从司法部长梅里克·加兰那里获得了特别律师的身份，并对这两起案件提出了指控。
在他的调查过程中，韦斯成为了政治上少数几个吸引了整个政治范围的关注的人物之一。忠于唐纳德·特朗普的共和党人指责他未能对拜登家族提出更严重和更实质性的指控，而民主党人则抱怨说，共和党领导的压力运动影响了韦斯的起诉决定。
这两起案件的判决原定在拜登总统发布赦免令几周后进行，亨特·拜登可能面临数年监禁和100多万美元的罚款。
韦斯还成功地提起了第三起针对一名前美国联邦调查局线人的诉讼认罪散布关于拜登夫妇生意往来的谎言。上周，一名联邦法官判处前告密者亚历山大·斯米尔诺夫六年监禁。
Special counsel David Weiss defends investigations as 'impartial' in final report on Hunter Biden probes
Special counsel David Weiss slammed President Joe Biden's characterization of his probe as being infected with "raw politics" in his final reportdetailing his investigationsinto the president's son Hunter Biden, which was released Monday by the Justice Department.
Weiss' work culminated in two separate criminal convictions of Hunter Biden that his father wiped clean with asweeping pardonin early December, just weeks after Election Day. In July 2024, Weiss' office secured a guilty verdict from a Delaware jury on three felony gun charges, and months later, on the eve of trial, Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to numerous tax crimes, including six felonies.
Weiss' report -- 27 pages in length plus hundreds of pages of public filings -- caps a yearslong and politically fraught probe that remained a source of seemingly endless fodder for President Biden's political opponents in Congress and elsewhere. Weiss' prosecutors examined Hunter Biden's years of drug and alcohol abuse, his controversial foreign business dealings, and his procurement of a gun in 2018.
When President Biden issued a pardon for Hunter Biden in early December, he claimed that "raw politics has infected" the investigation into his son.
"No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son -- and that is wrong," Biden wrote.
Weiss, in the report, criticized the president's assertion.
"Other presidents have pardoned family members, but in doing so, none have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the Department of Justice based solely on false accusations," Weiss wrote.
Weiss defended his work as "thorough, impartial investigations, not partisan politics."
"Eight judges across numerous courts have rejected claims that they were the result of selective or vindictive motives," Weiss wrote. "Calling those rulings into question and injecting partisanship into the independent administration of the law undermines the very foundation of what makes America's justice system fair and equitable. It erodes public confidence in an institution that essential to preserving the rule of law."
"These prosecutions were the culmination of thorough, impartial investigations, not partisan politics. Eight judges across numerous courts have rejected claims that they were the result of selective or vindictive motives," Weiss wrote.
"Calling those rulings into question and injecting partisanship into the independent administration of the law undermines the very foundation of what makes America's justice system fair and equitable. It erodes public confidence in an institution that is essential to preserving the rule of law," wrote Weiss. "These baseless accusations have no merit and repeating them threatens the integrity of the justice system as a whole."
Weiss says because of the pardon, he was prevented from making "additional charging decision" regarding Hunter Biden's 's conduct over an 11-year span, suggesting there were other cases he could have pursued against the president's son. However, because of the pardon, "it would thus be inappropriate to discuss whether additional charges are warranted," he wrote.
Hunter Biden's legal team said they were not given an opportunity to read Weiss' report prior to its release.
Calling Weiss' probe "a cautionary tale of the abuse of prosecutorial power," Hunter Biden's attorney, Abbe Lowell, said that Weiss' report "continues to ignore some of the major mysteries of his 7-year investigation."
"Mr. Weiss conveniently omits his proposal to resolve this investigation in 2023 with a pair of misdemeanors and a diverted gun charge recommended by career prosecutors," Lowell said. "Mr. Weiss also fails to explain why he reneged on his own agreement, a reversal that came at the 11th hour in court as he and his office faced blistering attacks from Republicans and his then filing unprecedented charges for someone with no aggravating gun factors who had paid his taxes in full years before the charges were filed."
Federal investigators began looking into the younger Biden's taxes in 2018, before his father launched his successful presidential bid. That probe grew to include scrutiny of his overseas business dealings in China, Ukraine, and elsewhere, ABC Newspreviously reported.
In the summer of 2023, prosecutors in Weiss' office struck a plea deal with Hunter Biden that would have allowed him to plead guilty to a pair of tax-related misdemeanors and avoid prosecution on one felony gun charge.
But thatdeal fell apartunder questioning by a federal judge -- and within months, Weiss secured special counsel status from Attorney General Merrick Garland and filed charges in both cases.
Over the course of his probe, Weiss emerged as one of those rare figures in politics who attracted scrutiny from across the political spectrum. Republicans loyal to Donald Trump accused him of failing to bring more serious and substantial charges against the Biden family, while Democrats complained that a GOP-led pressure campaign influenced Weiss' prosecutorial decisions.
Sentencing in both cases had been scheduled to take place just weeks after President Biden issued his pardon, with Hunter Biden facing the possibility of years in prison and more than a million dollars in fines.
Weiss also brought a third successful case against a former FBI informant whopleaded guiltyto spreading lies about the Bidens' business dealings. Last week a federal judge sentenced the former informant, Alexander Smirnov, to six years in prison.
