The federal prosecutor who reached a plea deal with Hunter Biden said Monday that he was told he could bring charges anywhere in the country, contradicting claims by an IRS whistleblower that he was blocked from doing so by Democratic-appointed U.S. attorneys.
Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss wrote in a letter to the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee that he never asked to be named a special counsel, as Republican lawmakers and the whistleblower have claimed, but said he did seek status as a “special attorney,” which would have given him authority to file charges in any jurisdiction without permission of the U.S. attorney in that district. And he said he was told he would get it.
“I was assured that I would be granted this authority if it proved necessary,” he said in his letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., adding that this assurance “came months before the Oct. 7, 2022 meeting” during which, according to the IRS whistleblower, Weiss said he had been blocked by Democratic appointees in Central California and Washington, D.C. from bringing charges in those places.
Weiss said he has “never been denied the authority to bring charges in any jurisdiction” and was writing the letter “to clarify an apparent misperception and to avoid future confusion.”
Weiss’ new statement adds context to an assertion by whistleblower Gary Shapley, a former IRS criminal investigator, who told Republicans that Weiss spoke to the U.S. attorney’s offices in the District of...
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