An Internal Revenue Service whistleblower said Wednesday that he double-checked with the federal prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden to make sure that he could not charge the troubled first son outside his home state of Delaware.
IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley, who first made the stunning disclosures to the House Ways and Means Committee last month, told Fox News’ “Special Report” that First State US Attorney David Weiss repeatedly said behind closed doors that he lacked power to charge potential financial crimes — despite publicly claiming he had been “granted ultimate authority over the matter.”
“I even had him repeat that because I knew how important that fact was, and I wanted to make sure I understood,” Shapley told anchor Bret Baier of an Oct. 7, 2022, meeting with Weiss held with at least five others in attendance.
Shapley added that it was “crystal clear” what the federal prosecutor meant and he “documented it” in an email memo that his supervisor apparently confirmed days later, according to an internal IRS message handed over to Congress.
The whistleblower also said prosecutors barred his team from executing search warrants on Hunter Biden in the months before the 2020 election, repeating an allegation from his congressional testimony.
“Between April and June of 2020, we drafted an affidavit to execute a search warrant in a couple of different locations, and the prosecutors at the time stated that probable cause had been achieved,” Shapley told Baier. “But...
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