There's some damning coverage on the Wall Street Journal editorial page today, coming from whistleblower Gary Shapley, "leader of an elite team of (IRS) agents specializing in international tax investigations, (who) was brought in as supervisor of the Hunter case in January 2020." For example,
Mr. Shapley recounts that his team obtained a July 30, 2017 WhatsApp message from Hunter Biden to Henry Zhao, a Chinese businessman. The testimony says Hunter wrote:
“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-whi...nion_lead_pos2
Now was he really sitting there with his father? I kind of doubt it. But that sounds a lot like blackmail and extortion.
The IRS investigators were prevented from doing their jobs by higher ups every step of the way, but still came up with a recommendation to
charge Hunter with felony tax evasion, felony false tax returns, and failures to pay tax. Mr. Shapley says this was partially based on Hunter’s “textbook” tax evasion of declaring his income from the Ukrainian firm Burisma as a “loan.” Mr. Shapley says the team was also looking into a Foreign Agents Registration Act case. Recall that's part of what sent Paul Manafort to prison.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hun...article_inline
I would dare expect that if any of us were disguising $500,000 a year in directors fees as loans, they'd throw the book at us. Hunter got off with two misdemeanor charges.
Equal justice for all, right. We have a federal government of the politicians, by the politicians and
FOR the politicians. And for their kids and grandkids. Attorneys at the DOJ refused to allow the IRS agents to interview financial transactions of Joe Biden's grandchildren, or pursue a search warrant of Joe's guest house (Hunter's onetime residence.)
