It pays to be the son of the United States president. President Joe Biden’s son, Robert Hunter Biden, avoided prison time after taking the plea deal that the Justice Department offered. Rapper Kodak Black’s lawyer slammed the department and Hunter for the prison-free agreement when he and Black had the same federal weapons charge.
The Justice Department announced Hunter entered a plea deal, which recommended that the privileged criminal face 24 months of probation for tax evasion while avoiding prosecution for the separate gun charge — possessing a firearm as a drug user.
The decision is up to the judge.
Black’s gun charge stemmed from falsifying information on the federal application forms to purchase guns at a Miami weapon shop in 2019.
Both of their charges have a maximum penalty of 10 years. Yet, Black received a three-year prison sentence, and Hunter got a recommended 24-month probation.
“There’s no such thing as not getting jail time on a gun charge or any kind of gun charge,” Bradford Cohen told Fox News. “I’ve never seen anyone where this offense was charged, and they didn’t get some sort of prison sentence. And in fact, most of the time in federal court, you very rarely see people get anything but a prison sentence.”
The lawyer also took frustration to his Instagram.
“2 tiers of justice? Kodak was charged for the same crime,” Cohen wrote in an Instagram post containing photos of two news articles about Hunter’s crime and BLack’s. “Got over 3 years. Mr. Biden will not serve a day. Feels right? Do FBI agents and federal authorities take cases personally?”
Cohen brought up examples of other public figures who have received prison time. His point is that federal crimes result in prison sentences no matter who committed them. One example was actress Felicity Huffman sentenced to two weeks in prison for the college admissions scandal.
“So, in this Felicity Huffman case, to give the woman two weeks in prison, you know that actually have to surrender yourself going for two weeks, change her clothes out to all this stuff, for literally 14 days. And this guy gets absolutely nothing? I’ve just never seen it happen.”
He continued, “A federal crime is supposed to be a federal crime. And federal crimes are supposed to be very serious federal crimes, and that’s why you look at prison sentences.”
Hunter also agreed to participate in a diversion program that works with the offenders to get to the root of the problem that caused the crime.
“I think that this is like, you know, they figured the easiest way for them to save face [was] to charge him, not give him prison, and then hope that [Joe] Biden doesn’t give him a pardon until he’s on his way out two years. So, they get a couple of years of probation out of them,” Black’s lawyer said.
