Justice Department investigators are “trying to limit” questioning related to President Biden as part of the Hunter Biden investigation, despite the objections of FBI and IRS officials, a whistleblower said.
The House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday released testimony from two IRS whistleblowers who said Justice Department, FBI and IRS officials interfered in the investigation of the tax evasion case against Hunter Biden. Whistleblowers said decisions in the case appeared to be “politically influenced.”
A whistleblower, Gary Shapley Jr., who is the supervisor of the IRS investigation, said that “at every stage” of the investigation, decisions are made that “have an impact on the welfare of the subject of the investigation.” He cited several examples involving apparent references to Hunter Biden’s father.
Shapley pointed to text messages and emails obtained from Hunter Biden’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski, which Fox News Digital first reported before the 2020 presidential election and before it became known that Hunter is under federal investigation.
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President Biden fired back at reporters who asked him about alleged corruption involving him and his son Hunter Biden. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
In December 2020, Shapley said investigators were preparing to interview Biden’s business partner Rob Walker.
“Among other things, we want to ask Walker about an email that said: ‘H holds ten for the big man,'” Shapley said. “We have obvious questions like who is H, who is the big man, and why this percentage should be made separately hidden association.”
But Shapley said Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf “squealed and said she didn’t want to ask about the big guy and stated she didn’t want to ask about ‘daddy.'”
Joe Biden has reportedly been called “the big man.”
“When several people in the room spoke up and objected that we should ask, he replied, there is no specific criminality in the line of questioning,” Shapley said. “It pissed off the FBI, too.”
Shapley said that “basically everyone in the room except the prosecutors had a big problem with” not asking about President Biden.
The message “H holds ten for the big man” is an email from May 13, 2017, which includes a discussion of “pay packages” for six people in a business deal. in a Chinese strong strong. The email appears to identify Biden as “Chair/Vice Chair depending on the CEFC agreement,” in an apparent reference to the now-bankrupt CEFC China Energy Co.
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President Biden, left, and Hunter Biden (Getty Images)
The email included a note that “Hunter has some office expectations that he will explain.” A proposed equity split references “20” for “H” and “10 held by H for the big man?” without further details.
Shapley said that on October 22, 2020, the team and Wolf said that United States Attorney David Weiss “reviewed the affidavit for the search warrant at Hunter Biden’s residence and agreed that probable cause achieved.”
“Although the legal requirements were met, and the investigative team knew there was evidence at these locations, AUSA Wolf said they would not have authorized a physical search warrant for Hunter Biden,” said Shapley.
Shapley said the IRS and FBI agents who conducted the Walker interview “tried to dress up AUSA Wolf” to avoid questions about “daddy” and “the big man.”
“And they were like, ‘How can we not ask?’ Like, that’s wrong. We have to ask. We have to ask,” Shapley said. “And so they basically decided they were going to ask the question without saying the words ‘big man,’ and that’s how they were going to do what they were asked to do.”
Shapley repeatedly testified that there were “several times where Lesley Wolf said she didn’t want to ask about the father.”
“And dad is kind of how we define him,” Shapley said. “We’re talking about Hunter Biden’s father, you know, as a father.”
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Shapley said Joe Biden was addressed that way “so we can say more clearly without yelling, ‘President Biden.'”
He also mentioned a time in December 2020 when Hunter Biden vacated the Washington, DC, office of his company in Owasco and placed all his documents in a storage unit in northern Virginia.
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“The IRS prepared an affidavit in support of a search warrant for the unit, but AUSA Wolf once again objected,” Shapley said.
According to Shapley, Weiss led the Hunter Biden investigation and agreed that if the storage unit was not accessed within 30 days, “we could execute a search warrant on it.”
“Before we got off the call we heard AUSA Wolf just reached out to Hunter Biden’s defense attorney and told him about the storage unit, once again ruining our chances of getting evidence before destroyed, manipulated, or hidden,” Shapley said.
He also said a message in which Hunter Biden referred to his father in a message to the executive of the Chinese energy company CEFC Henry Zhao explained the need to search the guesthouse in the Bidens’ Delaware home. But he said Wolf said “optics are a key factor in the decision of whether to execute a search warrant.”
These revelations come just days after the Justice Department announced that Hunter Biden would plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willfully failing to pay federal income taxes as part of a plea deal. hopefully he won’t go to jail. The president’s son also agreed to enter into a pretrial diversion agreement in connection with a separate charge of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user or addict of a controlled substance.
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In response to the whistleblower’s allegations, the Justice Department said in a statement: “As the Attorney General and US Attorney David Weiss have said, US Attorney Weiss has full authority in this matter, including the responsibility to decide where, when, and if necessary. File charges as he deems appropriate. He needs no further authorization to do so. Questions about his investigation should be directed to the US Attorney’s Office for Delaware. “
The White House has repeatedly said that President Biden has nothing to do with his son’s business. They also maintained that the president never discussed them with him.
