It took only days after Senile Biden was in office that he had his corrupt DOJ seek information and intervene itself in Hunter Biden's criminal case
The request for a roundup of Hunter Biden-related cases alarmed agents because some attendees from DOJ -- including Biden political appointees -- had no authority in the case. That puts Merrick Garland's insistence of "no DOJ interference" into serious doubt.
A mere 16 days after Joe Biden assumed the presidency, top officials in his Justice Department raised suspicion among career IRS agents by demanding a briefing on the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, according to evidence turned over to Congress that raises new questions about Attorney General Merrick Garland's claims of an interference-free probe.
The Feb. 5, 2021 meeting between U.S. Attorney David Weiss' office in Delaware and some of Biden's new assistant attorneys general in DOJ's Washington headquarters was chronicled in email exchanges between federal prosecutors and IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler. Weiss was leading the probe into the first son,
"The 5 attorneys have the briefing at 1130 with the AAGs," Delaware Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf wrote to the IRS and FBI agents working the case who were told their regular meeting with Wolf might be delayed by the briefing in Washington.
"It is scheduled for an hour, but if we aren’t on at 1230, you will know that it ran long. You guys can either start without us or people can log out and we will shoot an email out when we are done." Wolf said.
The recipients on Wolf's email included Ziegler, the IRS case agent on the Hunter Biden tax probe that was codenamed "Sportsman." A short while later, Ziegler's supervisor, Shapley, alerted the IRS chain of command about concerns that Biden's new DOJ officials were asking to join the meeting, including one from the National Security Division (NSD) that had no jurisdiction in the tax probe. Some of the attendees were Biden political appointees.
"We learned today that USAO and DOJ Tax are briefing the new AAG on the tax case today," Shapley wrote his boss. "NSD asked for a briefing so they could understand the tax side of the case. I don’t understand why this matters to them since they are NSD…but I just wanted to give you an update that this meeting was."
The request for the briefing escaped public and media notice for two years and is now the earliest known evidence of intervention by Biden DOJ officials into the Hunter Biden case. It comes only weeks after reports disclosed that Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer had contact with Hunter Biden's attorneys in May during the effort to negotiate a now-abandoned plea deal that would have spared Hunter Biden prison time on tax evasion and gun charges.
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The DOJ's history of obstruction in Hunter Biden-related cases, they testified to Congress, included being turned down for perfectly legal search warrants for Joe Biden's property and Hunter Biden's storage locker, being blocked from inquiring about Joe Biden or his ******** and being thwarted from doing a surprise interview with Hunter Biden. In fact, instead of allowing agents to simply interview Hunter Biden, DOJ officials contacted Joe Biden's team and told them ahead of time that they wanted to speak with Hunter Biden.
“I am blowing the whistle because the Delaware U.S. Attorney's Office, Department of Justice Tax, and Department of Justice provided preferential treatment and unchecked conflicts of interest in an important and high-profile investigation of the President's son, Hunter Biden,” Shapley testified to Congress this summer.
The IRS whistleblowers have also provided documentary evidence that the Biden-appointed U.S. Attorneys in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles blocked Weiss' efforts to charge Hunter Biden for tax crimes in their jurisdiction, including not paying taxes on $400,000 in income Hunter Biden received from his controversial work for the Ukrainian-based Burisma Holdings. Instead, the DOJ let the statute of limitations run on those potential tax crimes.
An FBI agent recently corroborated Ziegler's and Shapley's account about the blocked charges during an interview with the House Judiciary Committee
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Congressional investigators also are interested in why DOJ's National Security Division --- which faced sharp criticism for misleading applications for FISA warrants in the now discredited Russia collusion probe against Donald Trump and the 2022 raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in the classified documents case -- was trying to inject intself into a meeting about Hunter Biden's tax case.
"This could be the first glimpse into what I've been saying for a very long time about that team Obama had inserted into the National Security Division of the FBI and the Department of Justice," Former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes told the "Just the News, No Noise" televsion show on Wednesday evening.
"This is where the plumbers are. This is where the operatives are. This is where the people are that are doing the worst things at the Justice Department, throughout our government. This is where they live." Nunes said.
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