The judge overseeing the federal weapons case against first son Hunter Biden has ordered that search warrants used in two investigations of the scion must be made public.
Delaware US District Judge Maryellen Norieka granted a request Friday to unseal four search warrants used in special counsel David Weiss’s investigation of unlawful firearm possession and tax fraud cases against the now-53-year-old.
The warrants are likely to shed light on the legal basis the feds had for seizing Biden’s electronic devices, as well as the evidence used to build the two criminal cases against him.
The warrants were referenced in court papers earlier this month by Weiss’ office as it argued against Hunter’s bid to throw out the charges — prompting an independent journalist to seek their unsealing.
Neither Biden’s defense team nor Weiss’ office objected to the records being unsealed. It is not immediately clear when the documents will be accessible.
Two warrants date from August 29, 2019, and July 10, 2020, and were obtained by tax authorities and the FBI to look into Hunter Biden’s Apple iCloud account. A third search warrant was obtained Dec. 13, 2019, to examine the now-first son’s infamous laptop.
The fourth warrant was obtained Dec. 4 of last year and used to collect electronic evidence in connection with the gun case — nearly three full months after the indictment against the first son was unsealed.
Hunter Biden faces three gun-related felony charges for allegedly lying about his drug addiction when he bought a firearm five years ago.
He was also hit with a slew of charges in Los Angeles last month for allegedly evading $1.4 million in federal taxes between 2016 and 2019.
The cases were mounted against the younger Biden after a no-jail plea deal fell through unexpectedly during a July court hearing.
Biden’s lawyers asked Noreika in December to toss the gun charges against him, claiming the prosecution violated the earlier agreement between the troubled first son and the feds.
Weiss’ office responded in scathing court papers on Jan. 16, claiming their case that Biden was on drugs when he got his gun and lied about it on a background check form was rock solid — with investigators finding traces of cocaine powder on the pouch of the Colt Cobra 38SPL revolver, which his sister-in-law-turned-lover Hallie Biden chucked in a trash can behind a Delaware grocery store in October 2018.
“Investigators literally found drugs on the pouch where the defendant had kept his gun,” prosecutors spelled out.
Hunter also admitted in his 2021 memoir “Beautiful Things” that he was addicted to crack cocaine at the time of the firearm drama, the feds pointed out.
A spokesperson with the Department of Justice declined to comment Monday, while Biden’s lawyers didn’t immediately return a request for comment.