Source: The Washington ExaminerSecond IRS whistleblower goes public at House Oversight hearing about Hunter Biden probe
The House Oversight Committee heard Wednesday from two IRS whistleblowers whose claims that the Justice Department politicized the Hunter Biden criminal probe have ignited a firestorm among Republicans.
One of the two whistleblowers identified himself publicly for the first time at the hearing: Joseph Ziegler, a 13-year IRS special agent with the Criminal Investigation Division.
Source: CNN
Comer subpoenas Mayorkas, Secret Service over tip-off of 2020 Hunter Biden tax probe interview
EXCLUSIVE: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer subpoenaed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and several DHS and Secret Service officials for documents and testimony related to the Secret Service’s alleged tip-off of the Biden transition team regarding a planned Hunter Biden tax probe interview in 2020, while also accusing the agencies of obstructing a congressional investigation.
Fox News Digital exclusively obtained letters and the subpoenas sent to Mayorkas and Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Tuesday.
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IRS Whistleblower: What are they alleging?
During their public testimony, the two men said that throughout the Hunter Biden investigation, decisions were made that benefited the president’s son.
The two whistleblowers accuse Delaware Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf, an assistant to Mr Weiss, of repeatedly blocking further investigation into Hunter Biden. They say she denied a request for a search warrant of Joe Biden’s Wilmington home, where Hunter Biden kept some of his financial records, citing “optics”.
They say she also prevented investigators from asking about Joe Biden’s connection to his son’s finances and denied a request to interview Mr Biden’s adult grandchildren about their connections to deductions claimed on Hunter Biden’s tax returns.
She informed Mr Biden’s lawyers that investigators were interested in documents contained in a rented northern Virginia storage unit, allowing Mr Biden the opportunity to access the unit before investigators could take action, they say.
“I have reason to believe that there was gross mismanagement present throughout the investigation, that there was a gross waste of funds relating to the tax dollars spent on investigation this case and that there was an abuse of authority,” said Mr Zielger during his testimony.
Mr Shapley said that the IRS had largely concluded its investigation by the end of 2021 and recommended that Hunter Biden be charged with multiple tax fraud felonies. The agency officially referred those conclusions to US government attorneys in Washington DC, in February 2022, and in California in September 2022. Neither took action.
Ultimately, Mr Weiss brought charges against Mr Biden as part of a plea deal – but for misdemeanours that carry no prison time, not the felonies the IRS investigators recommended.
In a 7 October 2022 meeting, Mr Shapley described how Mr Weiss told a group of senior IRS and FBI officials that he “was not the deciding person on whether charges are filed”. Mr Shapley documented the meeting, which he attended, in an email later that day to an IRS colleague.
“That was my red line,” Mr Shapley said during his Oversight Committee testimony. “The justice department allowed the president’s political appointees to weigh in on whether to charge the president’s son.”
He said the following month, the statute of limitations was allowed to lapse on Hunter Biden’s 2014 and 2015 tax returns, even though prosecutors could have sought an extension.
Source: BBC.com
