Lawyers are questioning whether the Delaware attorney's office kicked their most experienced prosecutors off the Hunter Biden case – just before they filed minor charges against the president's son.
Whistleblowers who ran the IRS criminal probe into Hunter for five years told Congress about their travails with veteran Delaware prosecutors Lesley Wolf, Shawn Weede, and Shannon Hanson.
But in a letter to a federal judge last week announcing the charges against Hunter, Delaware US Attorney David Weiss listed three different prosecutors who have apparently had no previous involvement in the case – leading to questions of a last-minute overhaul by the Delaware DoJ.
Under Weiss's signature, the June 20 letter lists Assistant US Attorneys Leo Wise, Derek Hines, and Benjamin Wallace.
Te office has been criticized for only filing 'slap-on-the-wrist' charges against the First Son, two cases of willful failure to pay tax and a firearms charge for which he will take pre-trial diversion
Veteran Delaware prosecutors Lesley Wolf, Shawn Weede, and Shannon Hanson spent five years working on the case with IRS whistleblowers
Delaware US Attorney David Weiss's court filings in the Hunter criminal case did not include Wolf, Weede, or Hanson's names
A lawyer for IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley, who ran the agency's five-year criminal probe into the First Son, told DailyMail.com: 'None of the three were involved in the underlying investigation during Gary's tenure, to my knowledge.'
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