More From Abbe Lowell
Since the elevation of David Weiss to special counsel in the Hunter cases, the one highly visible member of Hunter's legal team has been Abbe Lowell. In yesterday's post, I quoted from an interview he gave Friday on CNN's The Source with Kaitlan Collins . The context of Mr Lowell's apparent new status as lead in Hunter's Delaware cases appears to be the breakdown of the proposed plea agreement in Judge Noreika's Delaware courtroom on July 26. Hunter's lead attorney on the gun and tax cases up to that point had been Chris Clark. On July 26, Mr Lowell had just been sitting in the courtroom audience along with Kevin Morris, who characterizes himself as Hunter's overall lead attorney and who apparently pays Hunter's legal bills, so he calls the overall shots. When Clark and the prosecutors failed to agree on the deliberately unspoken terms of Hunter's diversion agreement, it sounds as though Messrs Morris and Lowell decided it was time for Lowell ...