Two IRS whistleblowers claim the Justice Department, FBI, and IRS interfered with the Hunter Biden tax probe, according to testimony released by the House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday.
“The allegations point to a steady campaign of: unequal treatment of enforcing tax law; Department of Justice interference in the form of delays, divulgences, and denials, into the investigation of tax crimes that may have been committed by the President’s son; and finally, retaliation against IRS employees who blew the whistle on the misconduct,” the committee said Thursday.
Committee chairman Jason Smith (R., Mo.) said the whistleblowers testified about tactics used by the DOJ to “delay the investigation long enough to reach the statute of limitations.”
The two IRS agents told the committee they pushed for felony charges against Hunter Biden in the tax probe and that Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss wanted to bring charges against the younger Biden in the District of Columbia and Southern California last year but was denied by DOJ officials both times.
Weiss also asked to be appointed special counsel in the case on several occasions, including in Spring 2022, but those requests were also rebuffed by the DOJ.
Gary Shapley, who worked as an IRS investigator for over ten years and oversaw the agency’s tax investigation into Hunter Biden, came forward as a whistleblower with claims that the IRS violated normal investigatory protocols to Biden’s benefit.
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