Hunter Biden made headlines this week after Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected a plea agreement under which the president's son would avoid jail time for tax evasion and an illegal gun purchase.

Yet that was not the case's only major development, as one of Biden's attorney's was apparently caught lying to the court clerk.

GOP congressman detailed IRS whistleblower testimony in brief

According to the Washington Examiner, the incident arose after House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith filed an amicus brief asking Noreika to look at testimony from IRS whistleblowers when deciding whether to accept Biden's plea.

Theodore Kittila serves as an attorney for the committee, and he wrote, "The Defendant appears to have benefited from political interference which calls into question the propriety of the investigation of the U.S. Attorney’s Office."

"It is critical that the Court consider the Whistleblower Materials before determining whether to accept the Plea Agreement," Kittila insisted.

However, later sent an email to Noreika alleging that Biden lawyer Jessica Bengels "misrepresented her identity" when speaking with court officials.

Lawyer accused of lying about identity to get brief pulled

"Mr. Kittila asserts that an individual associated with the firm representing Defendant called the Clerk's Office pretending to be associated with Mr. Kittila and representing the amicus materials be removed from the docket, which the Clerk's Office did," Noreika wrote on Tuesday.

"misrepresented her identity and who she worked for in an attempt to improperly convince the clerk's office to remove the amicus materials from the docket."

"The Court will temporarily place the document under seal until close of business on July 26, 2023 to afford Defendant the opportunity to try to make the requisite showing," the judge continued.

As New York Post journalist Miranda Devine noted on Twitter, Noreika then gave the defense team until 9:00 p.m. that night to offer an explanation.

Scandal in Delaware on eve of Hunter Biden plea deal. Judge Noreika has given Hunter’s lawyers to 9pm to explain why they should not be SANCTIONED for “misrepresentations to the Court... to improperly convince the Clerk's Office to remove [GOP lawyer] materials from the docket” pic.twitter.com/h7SpGTMQKs

— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) July 25, 2023

Attorney blames incident on miscommunication

The Post reported that Bengels responded by submitting an affidavit in which she blamed the controversy on miscommunication.

"I am completely confident that I never indicated that I was calling from Mr. Kittila’s firm or that I worked with him in any way," the lawyer wrote.

"The only mention of his name was when [the clerk] had asked me if the filings had been entered by Mr. Kittila’s firm and I answered that I believed that to be the case," she went on to attest.