Who is David Weiss, US special counsel in the Hunter Biden case?
By Andrew Goudsward
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Prosecutor David Weiss has spent years probing allegations involving President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden. Now as a U.S. special counsel, he will have a chance to dig deeper while facing intense scrutiny from the president's opponents.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Weiss, the Delaware U.S. attorney, to the special counsel job on Friday, two weeks after a federal judge held off accepting Weiss's deal to let Hunter Biden plead guilty to failing to pay taxes and unlawfully owning a firearm while addicted to illegal drugs.
Garland said Weiss asked for the appointment.
After being appointed on Friday, Weiss said in a court filing that plea negotiations had stalled and the case would likely go to trial.
Weiss supervised the Biden investigation from its start in 2019, focusing initially on potential violations of tax and money laundering laws in Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings, particularly in China, Reuters has reported.
Weiss's legal career has been built on a string of high-stakes assignments involving political and business figures in the Bidens' home state of Delaware. Weiss’s firm represented the family of Anne Marie Fahey, a secretary of Delaware's then-governor who went missing in 1996.
Weiss pressed federal authorities to get involved in the investigation, said Thomas Ostrander, who worked with Weiss at law firm Duane Morris, a move that helped lead to the murder conviction of Delaware’s former deputy attorney general.
Weiss also oversaw the prosecution of Christopher Tigani, a Delaware beer distributor who solicited donations for Joe Biden’s unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign and was later convicted of campaign finance violations, Politico
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