WASHINGTON — Two IRS whistleblowers told Congress in closed-door testimony released Thursday that there was a Justice Department coverup in the tax fraud investigation of first son Hunter Biden.
The two tax agents told the House Ways and Means Committee that they pressed for felony charges against Hunter Biden for ducking $2.2 million in tax payments and charged that evidence implicating the first son was buried by the Justice Department, the panel’s chairman said Thursday.
Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) also told reporters that Delaware US Attorney David Weiss sought to bring charges against the 53-year-old in both the District of Columbia and Southern California last year and was denied both times — contradicting sworn testimony by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Weiss, who signed off this week on a probation-only plea deal for Hunter in Delaware, sought repeatedly to be appointed special counsel in the case, including as recently as spring 2022, but was turned down by the Biden Justice Department, the lawmaker alleged.
The shocking allegations came two days after Weiss revealed that Hunter Biden had accepted a deal in which he agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay taxes on at least $3 million in income earned across 2017 and 2018. The first son also agreed to enter a pretrial diversion program to avoid a felony conviction for owning a firearm while addicted to drugs.
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