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Business Wire
4 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Qbtech Expands US Presence with Formation of New Houston-Based Teams and Staff Appointments
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Qbtech, the global leader in objective ADHD testing, announces the formation of its Houston-based clinical research and strategic partnership teams, along with new staff appointments and promotions at the company's US headquarters. The employee expansions bolster the company's continued growth in the region, enhancing its capabilities and market presence as it continues to develop and enhance its software solutions. Former clinical research manager Ragini Sanyal has been promoted to Head of Clinical Research, with Jonas Bäckström joining as Chief Strategic Partnership Officer and Jack Smith as Head of US Commercial Operations. As Head of Clinical Research, Sanyal will lead the formalized clinical research team and its efforts to study the clinical utility and validity of objective ADHD assessments for diagnosing ADHD and its benefits in post-treatment follow-up. 'I truly believe objective ADHD technology is a guiding light through the uncertainty of the mental health space. I'm so excited to take on this role and lead our newly structured clinical research team to curate and share the data behind our objective assessments and how they can be used to progress ADHD care,' says Sanyal. 'This new team structure allows us to streamline our efforts across clinical operations, data management, medical writing, and trial execution. It will also help simplify decision-making, improve cross-functional collaboration, and provide a clearer focus as we continue to expand both our team and our portfolio. Coming off the World Congress on ADHD, I am so proud that our team was able to present four meaningful posters, and I can only imagine what we will accomplish in the coming months and years.' Jonas Bäckström, a former member of Qbtech's Board of Directors, has joined as Chief Strategic Partnership Officer, leading the newly established partnerships department from the Houston office. He brings a strong background in digital innovation, having worked with a pioneering digital healthcare provider in Sweden prior to joining Qbtech. 'This is an exciting opportunity for both me and Qbtech,' says Bäckström. 'I look forward to focusing on building scalable, evidence-based business models in the ADHD space and linking telehealth innovation with clinical, payer, and employer ecosystems. With my experience in business development and digital health, I am eager to help our partners achieve sustainable growth, improve patient outcomes, and shape a smarter, more accountable future for mental health, starting with ADHD.' Jack Smith will serve as Head of US Commercial Operations, leading efforts across sales and clinical support to drive Qbtech's expansion and identify new growth opportunities. A military veteran, Smith has served in various roles within the healthcare industry for more than 25 years. "I'm thrilled to be joining Qbtech at such a pivotal time in the US ADHD market. My goal is to build a world-class sales team that delivers real value to clinicians by driving improved patient outcomes through objective, evidence-based tools,' says Smith. 'As awareness grows and underserved markets expand, we have a unique opportunity to empower physicians with the confidence they need to make accurate ADHD diagnoses." The Qbtech team plans to hire additional staff in the Houston office throughout the year. Available career opportunities can be found at Qbtech is a privately-owned Swedish company that has developed leading solutions and products for improving the identification, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of patients living with ADHD. Qbtech has operations in 14 countries and has offices in Stockholm, Houston, and London. Qbtech is an award-winning company recognized for its innovation, most recently winning the 2022 HSJ Partnership Award for the 'Best Mental Health Partnership with the NHS.' For more information about Qbtech, visit
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Qbtech Expands US Presence with Formation of New Houston-Based Teams and Staff Appointments
Addition of clinical research and strategic partnership teams marks another milestone for Qbtech in North America, bolstering the company's regional capabilities and footprint HOUSTON, June 02, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Qbtech, the global leader in objective ADHD testing, announces the formation of its Houston-based clinical research and strategic partnership teams, along with new staff appointments and promotions at the company's US headquarters. The employee expansions bolster the company's continued growth in the region, enhancing its capabilities and market presence as it continues to develop and enhance its software solutions. Former clinical research manager Ragini Sanyal has been promoted to Head of Clinical Research, with Jonas Bäckström joining as Chief Strategic Partnership Officer and Jack Smith as Head of US Commercial Operations. As Head of Clinical Research, Sanyal will lead the formalized clinical research team and its efforts to study the clinical utility and validity of objective ADHD assessments for diagnosing ADHD and its benefits in post-treatment follow-up. "I truly believe objective ADHD technology is a guiding light through the uncertainty of the mental health space. I'm so excited to take on this role and lead our newly structured clinical research team to curate and share the data behind our objective assessments and how they can be used to progress ADHD care," says Sanyal. "This new team structure allows us to streamline our efforts across clinical operations, data management, medical writing, and trial execution. It will also help simplify decision-making, improve cross-functional collaboration, and provide a clearer focus as we continue to expand both our team and our portfolio. Coming off the World Congress on ADHD, I am so proud that our team was able to present four meaningful posters, and I can only imagine what we will accomplish in the coming months and years." Jonas Bäckström, a former member of Qbtech's Board of Directors, has joined as Chief Strategic Partnership Officer, leading the newly established partnerships department from the Houston office. He brings a strong background in digital innovation, having worked with a pioneering digital healthcare provider in Sweden prior to joining Qbtech. "This is an exciting opportunity for both me and Qbtech," says Bäckström. "I look forward to focusing on building scalable, evidence-based business models in the ADHD space and linking telehealth innovation with clinical, payer, and employer ecosystems. With my experience in business development and digital health, I am eager to help our partners achieve sustainable growth, improve patient outcomes, and shape a smarter, more accountable future for mental health, starting with ADHD." Jack Smith will serve as Head of US Commercial Operations, leading efforts across sales and clinical support to drive Qbtech's expansion and identify new growth opportunities. A military veteran, Smith has served in various roles within the healthcare industry for more than 25 years. "I'm thrilled to be joining Qbtech at such a pivotal time in the US ADHD market. My goal is to build a world-class sales team that delivers real value to clinicians by driving improved patient outcomes through objective, evidence-based tools," says Smith. "As awareness grows and underserved markets expand, we have a unique opportunity to empower physicians with the confidence they need to make accurate ADHD diagnoses." The Qbtech team plans to hire additional staff in the Houston office throughout the year. Available career opportunities can be found at About Qbtech Founded in 2002, Qbtech is a privately-owned Swedish company that has developed leading solutions and products for improving the identification, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of patients living with ADHD. Qbtech has operations in 14 countries and has offices in Stockholm, Houston, and London. Qbtech is an award-winning company recognized for its innovation, most recently winning the 2022 HSJ Partnership Award for the 'Best Mental Health Partnership with the NHS.' For more information about Qbtech, visit View source version on Contacts Media Contact: Hilari Barton, Trevelino/KellerHnbarton@ 404-214-0722 x 130
Entrepreneur
22-05-2025
- Business
- Entrepreneur
Love at First Loan
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You're reading Entrepreneur United Kingdom, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media. Jack Smith is CEO and founder of Love Finance, a leading UK business lender and broker, dedicated to simplifying SME finance. With a mission to make business lending simple, fast, and beautiful, Love Finance has helped over 5,000 SMEs secure funding, facilitating more than £200m in loans to support UK businesses. 33 year old, Jack founded Love Finance in 2016. With a background in finance and a passion for supporting SMEs, he's driven Love Finance's growth into a leading SME lender, always innovating to improve the lending process. Entrepreneur UK finds out more: What were the biggest challenges you faced when starting your business, and how did you overcome them? Cash. 100%. I didn't take on any VC money; I bootstrapped everything. There were times I had to borrow money from my girlfriend just to cover expenses. It forces you to get scrappy and resourceful you teach yourself things because you can't afford to hire experts. I learned digital marketing from YouTube, set up systems myself, even figured out accounting basics. Honestly, not having loads of cash early on was a blessing it made me ruthless about spending and taught me how to build lean. Related: Serve, Solve, Shine How did you identify and seize opportunities in the early stages of your start-up? I just looked at what was broken. Traditional lenders made SMEs jump through hoops to borrow money, weeks of paperwork, no transparency, no real urgency to help small businesses move quickly. I thought lending doesn't need to be that captious. So, we stripped it right back. Built a platform that made the journey fast, simple, and actually beautiful. And because we kept testing, learning, and tweaking the experience early on, we grew faster than we ever planned. What do you wish you had known about the UK start-up ecosystem before you began? I wish I'd known just how much resilience you need not just at the start, but every single year. The world moves fast, but the rules and policies seem to change even faster. One minute the economy's booming, the next there's new regulation, tax changes or some geopolitical event. You can't sit back you've got to stay sharp, adapt, and keep moving no matter what. It's like sailing in a storm you don't wait for calm seas, you just get better at reading the waves and adjusting your course. If anything, the tough bits build you. Looking back, what's the one piece of advice you'd give to founders just starting out in the UK's start-up scene? Back yourself and build for the customer, not the system. UK is a brilliant place to start a business, but it's not always built for speed. Policies, grants, incentives they can help, but you can't rely on them to drive your success. Focus on solving a real problem, move quickly, and stay close to your customers. If you get that right, you won't just survive the early stages, you'll create something resilient, scalable, and exciting. And if there's one thing I've learned: ambition compounds. Think big from day one, because the opportunities here and globally are huge for the ones who do. Related: What Happens When You Bootstrap a Business from Scratch?
Fox News
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Controversial office vacant for first time in nearly a decade, but emerging secrets haunt those involved
Print Close By Brooke Singman Published May 21, 2025 It's the first time in nearly a decade that a special counsel is not investigating something related to a sitting or former president, but the remnants and revelations of past special counsel probes continue to break through the news cycle. Every attorney general-appointed special counsel since 2017 has now released their reports, issued their indictments, received their verdicts, shuttered their offices, disassembled their teams and returned to their government or private sector roles. Essentially, they've all moved on. BIDEN INTERVIEW AUDIO REVEALS WHO BROUGHT UP BEAU'S DEATH – AND IT WASN'T HUR First, in 2017, there was Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who was investigating whether members of the first Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election. Then, in 2019, there was Special Counsel John Durham, who was investigating the origins of the Mueller investigation and the original FBI probe into then-candidate Donald Trump and his campaign. Soon, it was 2022, and Special Counsel Jack Smith began investigating then-former President Trump for his alleged improper retention of classified records held at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida after his presidency. Smith also began investigating events surrounding the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Next up, in 2023, Special Counsel Robert Hur was appointed and began investigating now-former President Joe Biden's alleged improper retention of classified records, which occurred during his vice presidency as part of the Obama administration. DURHAM FINDS DOJ, FBI 'FAILED TO UPHOLD' MISSION OF 'STRICT FIDELITY TO THE LAW' IN TRUMP-RUSSIA PROBE Later in 2023, David Weiss, who had served as U.S. attorney in Delaware and had been investigating Hunter Biden since 2018, was appointed special counsel to continue his yearslong investigation into the now-former first son. At this point, those investigations have all come to their resolutions: Mueller, in 2019, found there was no collusion; Durham, in 2022, found that the FBI ignored "clear warning signs" of a Hillary Clinton-led plan to inaccurately tie her opponent to Russia using politically funded and uncorroborated opposition research; Smith, in 2022, charged Trump but had those charges tossed; Hur, in 2023, opted against charging Biden; Weiss, in 2023, charged Hunter Biden, who was convicted and later pardoned by his father. But the curiosity surrounding those investigations that dominated headlines for the better part of a decade remains, largely because of so many loose ends and the prevalence of unanswered questions. A trickle, sometimes more like a flood, of information and news related to those probes continues to seep into the news cycle. On Friday night, audio of Biden's interview with Hur was made public. Hur closed his investigation in 2024 without charging the then-president and infamously described him as a "sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory." Some congressional lawmakers had demanded the release of the audio of Biden's interview amid questions about the former president's memory lapses and mental acuity. BIDEN STRUGGLES WITH WORDS, KEY MEMORIES IN LEAKED AUDIO FROM SPECIAL COUNSEL HUR INTERVIEW The audio – as expected, based on the transcript of the interview released in 2024 – showed Biden struggling with key memories, including when his son, Beau, died; when he left the vice presidency; and why he had classified documents he shouldn't have had. In a throwback to another special counsel investigation, the United States Secret Service last week paid a visit to former FBI Director James Comey after he posted a now-deleted image on social media that many interpreted as a veiled call for an assassination of Trump. Comey on Thursday posted to Instagram an image of seashells on the beach arranged to show "86 47" with the caption, "Cool shell formation on my beach walk." Some interpreted it as a coded message, with "86" being slang for "get rid of" and "47" referring to Trump, who is the 47th president. TRUMP SAYS COMEY KNEW 'ASSASSINATION' MEANING BEHIND DELETED SOCIAL MEDIA POST Comey later deleted the post and wrote a message that said, "I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down." Comey was the FBI director who, in 2016, allowed the opening of the bureau's original Trump-Russia investigation, known inside the FBI as "Crossfire Hurricane." Trump fired Comey in May 2017. Days later, Mueller was appointed as special counsel to take over that investigation, thus beginning the string of special counsels. Durham investigated the origins of the FBI probe and found that the FBI did not have any actual evidence to support the start of that investigation. Durham also found that the CIA, in 2016, received intelligence to show that Hillary Clinton had approved a plan to tie then-candidate Trump to Russia; intelligence that the FBI, led by Comey, ignored. DECLASSIFIED TRUMP-RUSSIA PROBE DOCS TO DATE: WHAT TO KNOW On July 28, 2016, then-CIA Director John Brennan briefed then-President Barack Obama on a plan from one of Clinton's campaign foreign policy advisers "to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service." Biden, Comey, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper were in the Brennan-Obama briefing, according to the Durham report. After that briefing, the CIA properly forwarded that information through a counterintelligence operational lead (CIOL) to Comey and then-Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok with the subject line "Crossfire Hurricane." Fox News first obtained and reported on the CIOL in October 2020, which stated, "The following information is provided for the exclusive use of your bureau for background investigative action or lead purposes as appropriate." DURHAM: FBI IGNORED 'CLEAR WARNING SIGN' OF CLINTON-LED EFFORT TO 'MANIPULATE' BUREAU FOR 'POLITICAL PURPOSES' "Per FBI verbal request, CIA provides the below examples of information the CROSSFIRE HURRICANE fusion cell has gleaned to date," the memo continued. "An exchange (REDACTED) discussing US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's approval of a plan concerning US presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering US elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server." By January 2017, Comey had notified Trump of a dossier, known as the Steele dossier, that contained salacious and unverified allegations about Trump's purported coordination with the Russian government, a key document prompting the opening of the probe. The dossier was authored by Christopher Steele, an ex-British intelligence officer, and commissioned by Fusion GPS. Clinton's presidential campaign hired Fusion GPS during the 2016 election cycle. DOJ RECOMMENDED AGAINST TRUMP PROSECUTION ON OBSTRUCTION IN MUELLER PROBE: NEWLY RELEASED 2019 MEMO REVEALS It was eventually determined that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee funded the dossier through the law firm Perkins Coie. Durham, in his report, said the FBI, led by Comey, "failed to act on what should have been – when combined with other incontrovertible facts – a clear warning sign that the FBI might then be the target of an effort to manipulate or influence the law enforcement process for political purposes during the 2016 presidential election." But that intelligence referral document is just one of many that tells the real story behind the investigation that clouded the first Trump administration. And Trump has taken steps to ensure the American public has full access to all the documents. Trump, in late March, signed an executive order directing the FBI to immediately declassify files concerning the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. The FBI is expected to release those documents in the coming weeks. As for the other special counsels, Smith recently had his own moment in the news cycle. FLASHBACK: DURHAM TESTIFIES THAT THE FBI IGNORED HILLARY CLINTON PLAN TO LINK TRUMP TO RUSSIA FBI Director Kash Patel on Thursday disbanded a public corruption squad in the bureau's Washington field office. That was the same office that aided Smith's investigation into Trump. As for Weiss, after the release of the Biden audio tapes calling further into question the former president's mental acuity, some, including Trump, are now calling for a review of the pardon of Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden was found guilty of three felony firearm offenses stemming from Weiss' investigation. The first son was also charged with federal tax crimes regarding the failure to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes. Before his trial, Hunter Biden entered a surprise guilty plea. The charges carried up to 17 years behind bars. His sentencing was scheduled for Dec. 16, 2024, but his father, then-President Biden, pardoned him on all charges in December 2024. HUNTER BIDEN: A LOOK AT HOW THE SAGA SPANNING OVER 6 YEARS UNFOLDED Trump alleged in a Truth Social post in March that former President Biden's pardons were "void" due to the "fact that they were done by Autopen." "The 'Pardons' that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen," Trump wrote. "In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them! The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime," Trump added. Weiss, in his final report, blasted then-President Biden's characterizations of the probe into Hunter Biden, which Weiss said were "wrong" and "unfairly" maligned Justice Department officials. He also said the presidential pardon made it "inappropriate" for him to discuss whether any additional charges against the first son were warranted. Print Close URL
Fox News
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Controversial office sits vacant for first time in nearly a decade, but emerging secrets haunt those involved
It's the first time in nearly a decade that a special counsel is not investigating something related to a sitting or former president, but the remnants and revelations of past special counsel probes continue to break through the news cycle. Every attorney general-appointed special counsel since 2017 has now released their reports, issued their indictments, received their verdicts, shuttered their offices, disassembled their teams and returned to their government or private sector roles. Essentially, they've all moved on. First, in 2017, there was Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who was investigating whether members of the first Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election. Then, in 2019, there was Special Counsel John Durham, who was investigating the origins of the Mueller investigation and the original FBI probe into then-candidate Donald Trump and his campaign. Soon, it was 2022, and Special Counsel Jack Smith began investigating then-former President Trump for his alleged improper retention of classified records held at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida after his presidency. Smith also began investigating events surrounding the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Next up, in 2023, Special Counsel Robert Hur was appointed and began investigating now-former President Joe Biden's alleged improper retention of classified records, which occurred during his vice presidency as part of the Obama administration. Later in 2023, David Weiss, who had served as U.S. attorney in Delaware and had been investigating Hunter Biden since 2018, was appointed special counsel to continue his yearslong investigation into the now-former first son. At this point, those investigations have all come to their resolutions: Mueller, in 2019, found there was no collusion; Durham, in 2022, found that the FBI ignored "clear warning signs" of a Hillary Clinton-led plan to inaccurately tie her opponent to Russia using politically funded and uncorroborated opposition research; Smith, in 2022, charged Trump but had those charges tossed; Hur, in 2023, opted against charging Biden; Weiss, in 2023, charged Hunter Biden, who was convicted and later pardoned by his father. But the curiosity surrounding those investigations that dominated headlines for the better part of a decade remains, largely because of so many loose ends and the prevalence of unanswered questions. A trickle, sometimes more like a flood, of information and news related to those probes continues to seep into the news cycle. On Friday night, audio of Biden's interview with Hur was made public. Hur closed his investigation in 2024 without charging the then-president and infamously described him as a "sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory." Some congressional lawmakers had demanded the release of the audio of Biden's interview amid questions about the former president's memory lapses and mental acuity. The audio – as expected, based on the transcript of the interview released in 2024 – showed Biden struggling with key memories, including when his son, Beau, died; when he left the vice presidency; and why he had classified documents he shouldn't have had. In a throwback to another special counsel investigation, the United States Secret Service last week paid a visit to former FBI Director James Comey after he posted a now-deleted image on social media that many interpreted as a veiled call for an assassination of Trump. Comey on Thursday posted to Instagram an image of seashells on the beach arranged to show "86 47" with the caption, "Cool shell formation on my beach walk." Some interpreted it as a coded message, with "86" being slang for "get rid of" and "47" referring to Trump, who is the 47th president. Comey later deleted the post and wrote a message that said, "I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down." Comey was the FBI director who, in 2016, allowed the opening of the bureau's original Trump-Russia investigation, known inside the FBI as "Crossfire Hurricane." Trump fired Comey in May 2017. Days later, Mueller was appointed as special counsel to take over that investigation, thus beginning the string of special counsels. Durham investigated the origins of the FBI probe and found that the FBI did not have any actual evidence to support the start of that investigation. Durham also found that the CIA, in 2016, received intelligence to show that Hillary Clinton had approved a plan to tie then-candidate Trump to Russia; intelligence that the FBI, led by Comey, ignored. On July 28, 2016, then-CIA Director John Brennan briefed then-President Barack Obama on a plan from one of Clinton's campaign foreign policy advisers "to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service." Biden, Comey, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper were in the Brennan-Obama briefing, according to the Durham report. After that briefing, the CIA properly forwarded that information through a counterintelligence operational lead (CIOL) to Comey and then-Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok with the subject line "Crossfire Hurricane." Fox News first obtained and reported on the CIOL in October 2020, which stated, "The following information is provided for the exclusive use of your bureau for background investigative action or lead purposes as appropriate." "Per FBI verbal request, CIA provides the below examples of information the CROSSFIRE HURRICANE fusion cell has gleaned to date," the memo continued. "An exchange (REDACTED) discussing US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's approval of a plan concerning US presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering US elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server." By January 2017, Comey had notified Trump of a dossier, known as the Steele dossier, that contained salacious and unverified allegations about Trump's purported coordination with the Russian government, a key document prompting the opening of the probe. The dossier was authored by Christopher Steele, an ex-British intelligence officer, and commissioned by Fusion GPS. Clinton's presidential campaign hired Fusion GPS during the 2016 election cycle. It was eventually determined that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee funded the dossier through the law firm Perkins Coie. Durham, in his report, said the FBI, led by Comey, "failed to act on what should have been – when combined with other incontrovertible facts – a clear warning sign that the FBI might then be the target of an effort to manipulate or influence the law enforcement process for political purposes during the 2016 presidential election." But that intelligence referral document is just one of many that tells the real story behind the investigation that clouded the first Trump administration. And Trump has taken steps to ensure the American public has full access to all the documents. Trump, in late March, signed an executive order directing the FBI to immediately declassify files concerning the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. The FBI is expected to release those documents in the coming weeks. As for the other special counsels, Smith recently had his own moment in the news cycle. FBI Director Kash Patel on Thursday disbanded a public corruption squad in the bureau's Washington field office. That was the same office that aided Smith's investigation into Trump. As for Weiss, after the release of the Biden audio tapes calling further into question the former president's mental acuity, some, including Trump, are now calling for a review of the pardon of Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden was found guilty of three felony firearm offenses stemming from Weiss' investigation. The first son was also charged with federal tax crimes regarding the failure to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes. Before his trial, Hunter Biden entered a surprise guilty plea. The charges carried up to 17 years behind bars. His sentencing was scheduled for Dec. 16, 2024, but his father, then-President Biden, pardoned him on all charges in December 2024. Trump alleged in a Truth Social post in March that former President Biden's pardons were "void" due to the "fact that they were done by Autopen." "The 'Pardons' that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen," Trump wrote. "In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them! The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime," Trump added. Weiss, in his final report, blasted then-President Biden's characterizations of the probe into Hunter Biden, which Weiss said were "wrong" and "unfairly" maligned Justice Department officials. He also said the presidential pardon made it "inappropriate" for him to discuss whether any additional charges against the first son were warranted.
