Lawmakers were hearing from the two IRS agents assigned to Hunter Biden case, which focused on tax and gun charges.
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WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday held a public hearing raising unsubstantiated allegations against President Joe Biden over his family’s finances as they summoned IRS whistleblowers for their first open testimony about claims the Justice Department improperly interfered with a tax investigation into Biden’s son Hunter.
“We will continue to follow the money trail,” said Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
The top Democrat on the committee, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, called the hearing “a theater of the absurd.”
The Justice Department has denied the whistleblowers' allegations.
Lawmakers were hearing from the two IRS agents assigned to Hunter Biden case, which focused on tax and gun charges. The second agent, whose name was withheld in closed-door interview transcripts released earlier by Republicans and who was referred to by the committee as “whistleblower X,” was disclosed at the hearing as Joe Ziegler. The other IRS employee is Greg Shapley.
The GOP inquiry got underway last month, days after the announcement that Hunter Biden would plead guilty to misdemeanor tax offenses as part of an agreement with federal prosecutors.
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