Hunter Biden Prosecutor Convicted A Fundraiser Who Talked Up His Joe Biden Ties
By
Ryan J. Reilly
Dec 10, 2020, 02:58 PM EST
The Trump-appointed U.S. attorney who is overseeing the federal investigation of Hunter Biden, son of President-elect Joe Biden, is a longtime Justice Department veteran not known as partisan, but he does have a history of prosecuting Biden-adjacent crimes.
Nearly a decade ago, David C. Weiss, then a top official in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Delaware, oversaw the prosecution of liquor executive Christopher Tigani, who was sentenced to two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to making illegal campaign contributions and committing tax violations. Tigani was convicted in a scheme that included an effort to use political donations to gain favor with then-Sen. Biden.
The Tigani prosecution is one of Weiss’ highest-profile political cases. His name is on a 2012 sentencing memo that states Tigani attempted to “influence the political process, rationalizing that his illegal conduct was just another example of the ‘Delaware Way,’ and that, like others, he was entitled to receive political favors for his business and his industry.”
“They are very good and close friends and I know that we can take advantage of that relationship as needed,” Tigani wrote in 2008
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