The Delaware federal prosecutor leading the investigation into first son Hunter Biden denied on Monday that he requested special counsel status, disputing congressional testimony from IRS whistleblowers that he was twice barred from the role.
“To clarify an apparent misperception and to avoid future confusion, I wish to make one point clear: in this case, I have not requested Special Counsel designation,” US Attorney David Weiss wrote in a letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) first published by Politico.
Weiss added that he “had discussions with Departmental officials” about his authority to bring charges outside of Delaware and “was assured that I would be granted this authority if it proved necessary,” but said he had “never been denied the authority to bring charges in any jurisdiction.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland also said in sworn congressional testimony earlier this year that Weiss had “full authority” to pursue charges wherever they led.
In testimony that the House Ways and Means Committee made public June 22, IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley and an unnamed whistleblower both said Weiss acknowledged that the Justice Department denied him special counsel status twice.
Shapley further claimed that Weiss admitted in an October 7, 2022, meeting that US Attorneys Martin Estrada and Matthew Graves had blocked Weiss from bringing charges that year in Southern California and the District of Columbia, respectively. President Biden appointed Estrada and Graves to...
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