David Weiss Father: Meet Meyer Weiss: David Weiss, officially known as David Charles Weiss is an American attorney.

He was nominated by Donald Trump to be the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and has served in that office since February 22, 2018.

Weiss bagged a bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a Juris Doctor degree from Widener University School of Law.

He then clerked for Justice Andrew D. Christie of the Delaware Supreme Court and from 1986 to 1989, he served as an assistant United States Attorney in Delaware.

Weiss worked as a partner at the Duane Morris firm and as an executive at a financial services firm and later returned to the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s office as First Assistant U.S. Attorney in 2007.

While serving as acting United States Attorney for Delaware, he was nominated to the permanent position by then-president Donald Trump.

On February 15, 2018, his nomination to be the U.S. Attorney was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote, and was sworn in on February 22, 2018.

For the past few months, Weiss has been in charge of the investigations into the financial dealings of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and was asked to stay on during the Biden administration.

Weiss was first appointed to investigate Hunter Biden for illegal possession of a firearm and failure to pay taxes.

In August 2023, Weiss hit major headlines when was named special counsel in the Hunter Biden probe by Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Merrick Garland, who runs the US Department of Justice, on Friday, August 11 said he was upgrading David Weiss to special counsel status, giving him more independence to investigate Joe Biden’s son.

David Weiss Father: Meet Meyer Weiss

David Weiss was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States to his parents. There’s no information regarding his mother at this time of writing.

His father, Meyer Weiss, worked as an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent in Philadelphia from 1955 to 1984.

He was allegedly caught accepting over $200,000 in bribes from businessmen seeking to break federal tax laws and was sentenced to four years in prison.

Meyer is alleged to have spent almost $71,020 on David’s college and law school tuition, in part financed by the bribe money.