Newly released testimony from an IRS whistleblower offers fresh details about how the Department of Justice denied search warrants, prevented witness interviews, and shut down lines of inquiry during the investigation of Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings.
The House Ways and Means Committee voted on Thursday to make transcripts of the testimony public, just days after Biden pleaded guilty to tax offenses and a gun charge in a deal that will spare him prison time.
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Gary Shapley, a supervisory special agent with the IRS’s criminal division, had provided the testimony behind closed doors earlier in May after approaching the committee with allegations of misconduct in the yearslong Hunter Biden investigation.
Another IRS whistleblower, who remains anonymous, also provided testimony that the committee released on Thursday.
The actions Shapley and the anonymous whistleblower described underscored how much more aggressively the Justice Department has moved against former President Donald Trump than against Biden despite the apparently significant evidence collected by the IRS and the FBI in the five years since the investigation began.
The investigation into Biden began in November 2018 through another inquiry the IRS was already conducting into a “foreign-based amateur online pornography platform,” Shapley said.
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