The document, as is customary for reports prepared by Justice Department special counsels, provides a recap of the investigative findings.

The Justice Department special counsel whose six-year case into Hunter Biden was short-circuited last month by the unconditional pardon President Joe Biden granted to his son, criticized the outgoing president in his final report Monday.

Hunter Biden was convicted on federal gun charges at a jury trial and pleaded guilty to federal tax charges before being pardoned by his father in December.

The U.S. special counsel who prosecuted Democratic President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden called the president's criticisms of the cases "gratuitous and wrong" in a final report on his probe published on Monday.

President Biden unfairly attacked the integrity of the justice system by criticizing the long-running federal investigations into his son Hunter Biden, to whom he granted a federal pardon, according to the outgoing special counsel who led the cases.

The slim account of the investigation ignored questions from Congress and failed to address several controversies.

Weiss is the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for Delaware, and he began investigating Hunter Biden before Joe Biden took office in 2021. Garland allowed Weiss to continue the probe and, in 2023, he made Weiss a special counsel — a status that gave Weiss greater independence to investigate and bring charges.

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed David Weiss to be special counsel, giving him expanded powers to continue his investigation of Hunter Biden.

David Weiss, the special counsel who prosecuted President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, defended his investigation in a report released Monday, pushing back on claims by the president and his family that the cases were politically motivated. Here is the full report:

The report of the special counsel behind the prosecutions against Hunter Biden, David Weiss, was released Monday.