The IRS investigators who blew the whistle on Hunter Biden’s business dealings are claiming "complete vindication" after the embattled first son’s indictment on felony tax evasion charges.
The bombshell indictment is largely consistent with details brought to light by Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, IRS investigators who worked on the Biden probe. Shapley and Ziegler provided Congress with records showing Biden evaded millions of dollars in taxes on his foreign business income and took deductions for personal expenses.
According to the indictment, Biden failed to pay $1.4 million in taxes from 2016 to 2019 and instead spent millions of dollars "on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature."
"In short, everything but his taxes," the indictment says.
Biden allegedly deducted personal expenses from his taxes, including a $10,000 payment in 2018 to a Los Angeles sex club. He deducted $683,212 in payments to "various women" and $188,960 for "adult entertainment" from 2016 to 2019, according to the indictment. That information matches what Shapley and Ziegler told Congress in May.
Shapley, Ziegler, and their attorney say the 56-page indictment validates both the IRS investigation and their decision to blow the whistle.
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