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Feds could use Hunter Biden’s gun charge to ‘leverage’ another plea deal: experts

Prosecutors could use a potential indictment against Hunter Biden on gun charges to “leverage” a new plea deal and settle his other legal woes — including potential tax charges and a probe into the scandal-scarred first son’s foreign dealings, experts told The Post.

Special Counsel David Weiss’ office Wednesday said it intended to seek a grand jury indictment against President Biden’s 53-year-old son on a felony gun charge — for allegedly possessing a gun while addicted to crack cocaine — before the statute of limitations runs out next month.

Weiss is pursuing the gun charge indictment after a sweetheart plea deal fell through in July in which the younger Biden would have copped to two misdemeanor tax charges and entered into a diversion program for lying about his drug use when he bought a gun in the fall of 2018.

The gun charge he would have pled to was a felony crime but wasn’t indicted by a grand jury.

David Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor, told The Post that an indictment on that gun charge is “not that significant” and could be merely “a placeholder” — meaning Weiss could still potentially bring a case against Biden related to any potential illegal foreign dealings or felony tax charges.

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