Attorney General Merrick Garland responded to whistleblower claims accusing him of stifling the Hunter Biden investigation, saying he'd be "happy" to address the allegations and insisting that he remained far-removed from the probe.
A transcript released Thursday showed that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent who supervised the inquiry into the president's son told congressional lawmakers that the Justice Department impeded the investigation and whittled away the most serious evidence of the alleged tax crimes.
His detailed account of prosecutorial disinterest in the Hunter Biden case reinforces Republican criticisms that Biden got a "sweetheart deal" when he plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors earlier this week.
In his potentially damning testimony, IRS agent Gary Shapley said that during a 2022 meeting, Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss—a holdover from the Trump administration who led the Hunter Biden probe— told FBI and IRS agents that he was not the "deciding official on whether charges are filed." Garland, who was appointed to his post after Weiss opened his investigation, has repeatedly said that Weiss had full authority over the case.
Asked about Shapley's allegations during a Friday briefing, Garland insisted that Weiss was "permitted to continue his investigation and to make a decision to prosecute any way in which he wanted to and in any district in which he wanted to."
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