IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler, the second IRS employee to come forward who was assigned to the Hunter Biden case, spoke on Friday about the Department of Justice’s delayed actions in the yearslong investigation into the president's son.
Ziegler said that there were limitations on what evidence the agents could follow about potential tax crimes that existed.
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“We should be able to interview witnesses. We should be able to do all the proper procedures,” Ziegler said on Fox News on Friday.
“I understand that this was a politically sensitive case, but at the end of the day, it was a matter of, ‘No, you can't do that. Let's think about it.’ And at the end of the day, we weren't following all the evidence that we should have,” Ziegler said.
The whistleblowers accused Delaware Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf of obstructing their team from investigating further into the case. Ziegler said the first disagreement with Wolf was related to the search warrant for a storage unit in northern Virginia holding documents from Hunter Biden’s office.
Wolf, an assistant to U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who led the federal investigation into Hunter Biden, was accused of preventing the agents from searching Hunter Biden’s storage unit and giving his lawyers notice about the intent to investigate.
“We didn't have a seat at the table,” Ziegler said, calling the instance a “defining moment” that showed...
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