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What's in the Hunter Biden plea agreement?

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Details in the plea agreement negotiated between attorneys for Hunter Biden and the DOJ shed fresh light on the deal they brokered before a judge rebuffed it Wednesday. With attorneys buzzing around him, Hunter Biden sat quietly at a desk Wednesday in the Wilmington, Delaware, federal courtroom -- hands folded, jaw locked -- where hours earlier he had entered in hope of putting his legal tribulations in the rearview mirror. It was the most consequential moment in a day filled with them: both sides frantically seeking to resurrect a painstakingly negotiated plea agree ment after a prosecutor declared "there is no deal" and Biden's lawyer could be heard saying to prosecutors, "Rip it up." Under questioning from the judge, fissures had emerged as a result of the two sides' interpretation of a key passage in the agree ment: Paragraph 15, which outlined in broad language the scope of Hunter Biden's immunity from additional criminal charges. MORE: 'Rip ...