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Then-U.S. Attorney Robert Hurr reacts during a press conference in Baltimore in November 2019.
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Special counselor Robert Hurr is not expected to charge anyone in connection with the mishandling of classified documents at two sites linked to President Joe Biden, two sources close to the investigation told CNN.
Hurr and his team are writing a detailed report on the year-long investigation, which is expected to be critical of Biden and his staff over the way they handled sensitive materials. The report is expected to go into significant detail about what the special counsel found in his investigation.
Investigators on Hur’s team have told other Justice Department officials they hope to have the report completed by the end of the year, but that timeline may slip.
Ian Shams, a spokesman for the White House Counsel’s Office, declined to comment.
Hur was appointed in January to investigate after classified documents from Biden’s time as vice president were found at his former office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, DC and at his home in Wilmington, Delaware. A representative for Hur declined to comment.
The Wall Street Journal Hur’s first report is not likely to result in a criminal case. CNN mentioned earlier The charges appeared unlikely, according to sources familiar with investigators’ line of questioning, and that there was no notable grand jury activity.
A decision not to press charges is likely to draw criticism from Donald Trump and his allies. They have long drawn parallels between Hur’s investigation and that of special counsel Jack Smith, who earlier this year brought charges against the former president over his handling of classified documents after he left the White House.
But key differences between the two investigations abound, including the fact that the National Archives has repeatedly tried and failed to get back documents in Trump’s possession. At one point, the FBI secured a search warrant to search his property in Florida.
Biden’s lawyers, on the other hand, quickly notified the National Archives of the materials found in his possession.
CNN’s Devan Cole contributed to this report.
