Now that two IRS whistleblowers have spent hours testifying before Congress, lawmakers have multiple leads on which to follow up as they investigate Hunter Biden’s business dealings and what the Justice Department did to get to the bottom of them.
Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, two top IRS agents who spent years working on the Hunter Biden investigation, focused the House GOP’s efforts in a new and more specific direction: whether the Justice Department prevented Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss from building a case on what is, according to the whistleblowers, strong evidence of financial crimes.
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The pair of whistleblowers introduced new names, documents, and timelines to an investigation that Republicans had, before taking the House majority, struggled to move forward.
House investigators are waiting to receive all of the documents the whistleblowers have indicated they will provide to Congress, a person familiar with the situation told the Washington Examiner. Those notes, communications, and other records could help bolster the allegations Shapley and Ziegler have made.
Lawmakers could also face fewer hurdles in their quest for information from the Justice Department after next week, when, if a judge agrees, Hunter Biden’s plea deal will be finalized. Hunter Biden’s lawyers have said the plea deal marks the end of the criminal investigation, although Weiss has left open the possibility that the investigation will...
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