Ex-US Attorney Sounds Alarm on DOJ ‘Violating Its Own Internal Policies’

A former U.S. attorney accused the Department of Justice of violating its own internal policies when it came to an agreement with Hunter Biden to reach a plea deal on tax crime and gun charges.
The DOJ is “violating its own internal policies on this case,” former U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman wrote. “The Ashcroft Memo requires they charge the ‘highest provable offense’ and seek consistent sentences with other cases brought by DOJ,” he said, referring to a directive handed down by former Attorney General John Ashcroft that requires federal prosecutors to charge and pursue the readily provable and most serious offenses supported by evidence and facts of a case….

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