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Saturday, November 23, 2024

'The big guy was Joe Biden': IRS whistleblowers say politics influenced Hunter Biden probe - fox56.com

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WASHINGTON (TNND) — Two Internal Revenue Service (IRS) investigators who probed Hunter Biden’s taxes suggested in an interview released Tuesday that the federal government treated him differently than in other cases due to the looming 2020 presidential election.

Greg Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, who investigated the case connected to Biden’s September conviction on tax offenses, told former CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge that the IRS required the investigators to obtain more approval for actions in Biden’s case than in probes of other suspects.

“When it was Hunter Biden, it required additional approvals for every single thing that we did,” Shapley said. “Meanwhile, the local businessman – I don’t need any special permissions. I just go and do the investigation.”

One of the most notable discoveries from the infamous Hunter Biden laptop was an email exchange with a former business partner who suggested earmarking "10 held by H for the big guy," believed to mean 10% of a proposed joint venture. Shapley told Herridgeinvestigators corroborated that the "big guy" was a reference to Joe Biden.

"We corroborated that ‘The Big Guy’ was Joe Biden. Yes," Shapley said.

Ziegler added that Special Counsel Jack Smith of the Department of Justice, who filed a motion earlier this month in a case against former President Donald Trump, has had more freedom to investigate than he and Shapley...



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