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The revelation that Biden appointees blocked charges against his son is politically explosive because
Attorney General Merrick Garland testified under oath to Congress earlier this year that Weiss was
empowered to bring charges outside of Delaware. Intentionally misleading Congress is a crime.
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Weiss, who signed off this week
on the Delaware plea deal, sought to be appointed special counsel in the
case at least twice — including as recently as spring 2022 — but was turned down by the Biden Justice
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Two IRS whistleblowers told the House Ways and Means Committee that they pressed for felony charges against Hunter
Biden for evading $2.2 million in tax payments.
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Shapley, who sat six-hour deposition with the committee on May 26, took over the Hunter Biden case
for a
in January 2020 and said that investigators had turned up fresh evidence of Joe Biden’s involvement in
his family’s overseas income.
That included eye-popping communications from Hunter Biden’s iCloud account, Shapley said, citing a 'RHONJ' star Jenn Fessler surprises
message that directly implicated the president in an attempt to coerce money from a Chinese us at the Cannes Lions Festival
businessman.
“[W]e obtained a July 30th, 2017, WhatsApp message from Hunter Biden to Henry Zhao, where Hunter
Biden wrote: ‘I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made
Now on
has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and I

now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the
chairman, will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my
I

ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. am sitting here waiting for I

the call with my father,'” Shapley recounted.

“We couldn’t believe we saw that,” the second whistleblower
that told the committee. “That was more
indication that the dad might have been involved.”

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Evidence implicating the first son was buried by the Justice Department, Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) said Thursday.
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Zhao, Harvest Fund Management, is a Communist Party official and his fund was associated with BHR
of
Partners, an investment fund Hunter that co-founded in 2013 12 days after he joined his Vice-President
Biden aboard Air Force Two for an official trip to Beijing, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Hunter held onto his 10% stake in BHR Partners through at least part of his father’s first year in office as
president and the White House and Hunter’s representatives have refused any transparency into his
alleged divestment.

The BHR venture was the first of two major Biden family dealings in China. Through the second with
CEFC China Energy, Hunter and first brother James Biden received $4.8 million in 2017 and 2018,
according to a Washington Post review of laptop records. A May 2017 email about the CEFC deal referred
to Joe Biden as the “big guy” due a 10% cut and an October 2017 document listed Joe Biden as a
participant on a call about CEFC’s attempt to buy US natural gas.

Delaware US Attorney David Weiss also “tried to bring charges in the District of Columbia around March of 2022 and was
denied,” according to Smith, and was “once again denied” later in the spring of 2022.

Shapley said investigators were barred from searching a guest house at Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Del.
home to find supporting evidence and that Wolf objected during a meeting on Dec. 3, 2020, to questioning
a key Biden family associate, Rob Walker about the president. ,

“Wolf interjected and said she did not want to ask about the big guy and stated she did not want to ask
questions about ‘dad'” he said.
“When multiple people in the room spoke up and objected that we had to ask, she responded, there’s no
specific criminality to that line of questioning. This upset the FBI too,” Shapley testified.

But investigators later did ask Walker about Joe Biden’s role. An FBI agent asked if there were “any times
when he was in office, or did you hear Hunter Biden say that he was setting up a meeting with his dad
with them while dad was still in office?”

“Yes,” Walker answered, according to Shapley, before “inexplicably, the FBI agent changed the subject.”
The Walker interview, on Dec. 8, 2020, was one of 12 investigators had planned to conduct on a so-called
“day of action.” However, Shapley said, he learned the night before that “FBI headquarters had notified
Secret Service headquarters and the transition team about the planned actions the following day. This
essentially tipped off a group of people very close to President Biden and Hunter Biden and gave this
group an opportunity to obstruct the approach”. According to Shapley, the first son’s attorneys refused to
allow him to be interviewed.

As guest house, Shapley said that on Sept. 3, 2020, “Wolf told us there was more than enough
for the
probable cause for the physical search warrant there, but the question was whether the juice was worth
the squeeze.”

Hunter’s lawyers (including Chris Clark, above) were given a heads-up that investigators had probable cause to search
the first son’s Northern Virginia storage unit, providing an opportunity to remove evidence, the whistleblowers said.
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Wolf added, according to Shapley, that “optics were a driving factor in the decision on whether to execute
a search warrant. She said a lot of evidence in our investigation would be found in the guest house of
former Vice President Biden, but said there is no way we will get that approved.”

The testimony also mentions Hunter’s infamous abandoned laptop was verified by the FBI in November
2019, but investigators thereafter were barred from seeing it, Shapley said.
“When the FBI took possession the device in December 2019, they notified the IRS that
of it likely
contained evidence of tax crimes,” Shapley said.

However, the laptop was then not shared, prompting an outcry from tax investigators who wanted to look
into evidence of criminality on the device — including potential crimes by Joe Biden, Hunter griped whom
in a laptop message took “half” of his lucrative foreign income from countries where the elder Biden held
sway as vice president.

Wolf “stated that she would not have seen it because, for a variety of
reasons, prosecutors decided to keep it from the investigators. This see also
decision is unprecedented in my experience,” Shapley said while
recalling a meeting involving investigators and FBI computer analysts
in October 2020.
“Investigators assigned to this investigation were obstructed from
seeing all the available evidence,” Shapley said. “It is unknown if all
the evidence in the laptop was reviewed by agents or by prosecutors. Half ofAmericans think
Based on guidance provided by the prosecutors on a recurring basis feds gave Hunter Biden
to not look into anything related to President Biden, there is no way of preferential treatment,
poll shows
knowing if evidence of other criminal activity existed concerning
Hunter Biden or President Biden.”
Another investigative dispute erupted in December 2020 over the question of whether to search Hunter
Biden’s Northern Virginia storage unit, with Shapley saying the IRS had “prepared an affidavit in support
of a search warrant for the unit, but … Wolf once again objected.”

On Dec. 14, Weiss — Wolf’s boss — told Shapley that “that if the storage unit wasn’t accessed for 30
days we could execute a search warrant on it.
“No sooner had we gotten off the call then we heard AUSA Wolf had simply reached out to Hunter Biden’s
defense counsel and told him about the storage unit, once again ruining our chance to get to evidence
before being destroyed, manipulated, or concealed,” he testified.

Days earlier, the second whistleblower said he had prepared an affidavit in support of searching the
storage unit at Wolf’s direction.

“Iwould like to possibly execute this sometime next week,” he emailed Wolf Dec. 8. “I think that is
reasonable, given the upcoming holiday.”
According to him, Wolf responded the following day: “We are getting to work on this, but want to manage I

expectations with you regarding timing. It has to go through us, DOJ Tax, possibly [Office of Enforcement
Operations], and definitely Eastern District of Virginia who has never seen the case before, layer in the ,

filter requirements in the Fourth Circuit, and it’s just not clear it’s going to happen next week, even with
everyone making it a priority.”
“That tells me two
things right there,” the second whistleblower said. “[First,] That David Weiss wasn’t
really in charge. And it also tells me that have never had a case where, if we needed to get records and I

preserve them, that we didn’t do everything in our power to get a search warrant approved and get
moving on that expeditiously.”
Although she allegedly blunted some of the inquiries, Wolf did support much harsher charges than
ultimately were leveled, according to the testimony.

“AUSA Wolf supported charging Hunter Biden for tax evasion and false return in 2014, 2018, and 2019,
and failure to file or pay for 2015, 2016, and 2017,” Shapley said. “The proper venue for a tax case is
where the subject resides or where the return is prepared or filed. That meant the proper venue for the
years we were looking into would either be Washington, D.C., or California, not Delaware,” resulting in the
impasse with Biden’s appointees.
According to Shapley, the refusal by Graves to bring charges in the District meant Hunter’s actions in
2014 and 2015 would not be prosecuted.
“The years in question included foreign income from Burisma and a scheme to evade his income taxes
through a partnership with a convicted felon,” he said. “There were also potential [Foreign Agents
Registration Act] issues relating to 2014 and 2015. The purposeful exclusion of the 2014 and 2015 years
sanitized the most substantive criminal conduct and concealed material facts.”

The shocking allegations came two days after Weiss revealed that Hunter Biden had accepted a deal in
which he agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay taxes on at least $3
million in income earned across 2017 and 2018. The first son also agreed to enter a pretrial diversion
program to avoid a felony conviction for owning a firearm while addicted to drugs.
“Attorney General Merrick Garland told Congress Weiss had the authority necessary,” all Ways and
Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) pointed out Thursday. “Well, which is it?”

This past March, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) pressed Garland on whether Weiss was truly able to
bring charges without the approval of other Justice Department officials, specifically if the alleged crime
occurred outside Delaware.

Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to tax fraud misdemeanors on Tuesday and agreed to probationary measures to avoid a
further felony gun charge after he lied on a federal gun purchase form in 2018. He is not expected to serve jail time.
AP

“Without special counsel authority, he could need permission of another US attorney in certain
circumstances to bring charges outside the district of Delaware,” Grassley noted at the time. “I would like
clarification from you with respect to these concerns.”

Garland replied that Weiss would be able to charge Hunter Biden even for crimes that occurred outside
Delaware.
“The US attorney in Delaware has been advised that he has
authority full to make those kind of referrals
that you’re talking about or to bring cases in other jurisdictions if he feels it’s necessary. And I will assure
that if he does, he will be able to do that,” the AG said.

Grassley pressed: “Does the Delaware US attorney lack independent charging authority over certain
criminal allegations against the president’s son outside of the district of Delaware?”

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“If it’s in another he would have to bring the case in another district, but as I said, I’ve promised
district, to
ensure he’s able to carry out his investigation and that he be able to run it and if he needs to bring it in
another jurisdiction, he will have full authority to do that,” Garland said.
Chris Clark, an attorney for Hunter Biden, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The IRS said in a statement: “Under federal law, the IRS can’t comment on specific taxpayer matters.
These are laws designed to protect taxpayers, and we take them seriously.”
Joe Biden has repeatedly denied speaking with his son about his overseas business interests, despite
clear evidence to the contrary.

Additional reporting by Ryan King

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GMS undefined
7 hours ago
Do people actually go to jail for tax evasion?
The average jail time for tax evasion is 3-5 years . Evading taxes is a serious crime,
hich can result in substantial monetary penalties, jail, or prison. The U.S. government
enforces tax evasion and related matters, such as fraud..Not if y...
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Sicen Tired
2 hours ago
Local Business owner in Southeast GA was just sentenced to 2 years for Tax Evasion and
smaller amounts and no foreign governments involved.
Reply 13 Share
Dems-R-Evil
2 hours ago
Jersey Shore’s Mike Sorrentino “the Situation” served 6 months in federal prison for not
aying taxes, rapper Kodak Black spent 4yrs in prison for not paying federal taxes but
Biden gets a misdemeanor sweat-heart plea deal for not paying his federal taxes
‘normal’ Americans, NOT wearing ... See more
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Slim
7 hours ago
How can you investigate Hunter's tax fraud and not investigate where the money comes from,
r the 20 shell companies trying to hide the money, or the 150+ Suspicious Banking Activity

Reply 165 Share

Lord Kahutra
6 hours ago
Easy Ghislane maxwell got sentenced for sex trafficking minor women to elites and the
you vote for and they got away with it, so why not ?
Reply 51 Share
Nancy
2 hours ago
Tell that to people in jail for tax evasion.
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Nelson
8 hours ago
Our society is broken when elected officials are biased to the extreme with no recriminations
et they, Garland & Wray get away with it. Remember we have a society composed of almost
with no character straits to speak off.
Reply 171 Share
John Doe2022
7 hours ago
It is because we no longer have a government and the state party has rendered elected
fficials moot. The state runs itself and protects itself, the government is simply a

Reply 81 Share
TrutHurts
7 hours ago
Let’s be specific. Joe Biden and his son are getting away with: 1. Selling government
ecrets and favors for millions of dollars to tons of businessmen and government officials
a single charge or investigation into this) and 2. Not paying taxes on any of the
Joe Biden funneled through...
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Brian Phelan
4 hours ago
If these political crimes keep going unpunished it will reach a boiling point with the public.
his could result with individuals acting on their own accord to bring justice for these crimes.
would only end bad for both parties but can only be prevented by having equal justice for

Reply 10 Share
Eric H
3 hours ago
Wisest words I've read so far I'm regards to this 21st century scandal.

Justice for all. Even for the elite. Otherwise, we are now officially in the second Middle
with no hope.
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Jack DiPasquale
3 hours ago
This news may be shocking to mostly uniformed, nieve or biased people. My hunch has always
een the 2020 election was stolen. The DOJ sent emails to Zuckerberg to censor Hunter Biden
Not to mention that precincts were shut down at 11p.m. with Trump in the lead, made all
leave the ...
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TimB
5 hours ago
I have said this in the comments on many articles like this one. It is all theater. No penalties of

ny kind will come from any whistleblower testimony, congressional hearing, document dump,
The swamp will take care of its own, regardless of the party affiliation. They can have all
hea...
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Humpty D
4 hours ago
But for the rest of us peons, if we sell more than $600 would of stuff on eBay, we're expected to
ay taxes on that "income". And then there's all the new armed - deadly force authorized - IRS
that will be turned loose on us. Think they will be going after politicians' sons? No
- t...
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Dan Cohiba
7 hours ago
Merrick Garland the most inept,corrupt, and partisan AG in the history of this country. He
is
as weaponized the justice department to such a degree that no on has faith in their operations.
Jim and the rest of the family have enriched themselves at the expense of the
of this c... See more
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Isabel
6 hours ago
Lauryn Hill not paying taxes but Hunter, whose crime was greater gets
went to jail for ,

ssentially, a traffic ticket? Keep that in mind the next time the Dems talk about systemic
.

They are willing to ignore anything to protect Joe Biden.

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Sophie
5 hours ago
A black person would be under the jail but not Hunter Biden. But Biden still expects the
community vote.
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TrutHurts
7 hours ago
ATTENTION
So Joe Biden and Hunter can get away with hiding millions of dollars (received by selling
if

overnment secrets and favors) into hundreds of sham LLCs to avoid both detection and
a single penny in taxes, is this sending a message that tax evasion is legal? Or is tax
legal fo...
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Buda Vision
7 hours ago
Merick Garland cannot, CANNOT remain as attorney general, not for one more day.

The evidence of DoJ malfeasance is overwhelming.

I don’t want to live this way anymore
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GMS undefined
7 hours ago
Anyone who thought for a minute that the Pesident's son would do any time or be punished
ccordingly not living in reality..This is what priviledge buys..Protection...This
is is a slap in the
of our justice system..This is not what they meant by justice being blind..

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Cronkyte
8 hours ago
You could have pictures of Hunter handing Daddykins millions of dollars while they both
with Ashley and all three smoked crack; nothing would happen.

The fix has been in since Day One.

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The Lemon Don
4 hours ago
Why does everyone forget about Uncle Jimmy?
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BirdieCat
2 hours ago
Once Upon A Time In America Congress would be united in outrage over this criminal and
reasonous behavior by the POTUS who would be impeached by an overwhelming majority of
and convicted by more than 2/3 of the Senate. That Biden is not facing
and conviction shows how ...
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Chas Bklyn
4 hours ago
A week or two ago reporter yelled to Biden questioning about his part in the pay for play
a
cheme with his son and China. Surely he went off script and just had to answer, because he
this phony laugh and said Where's the money? In his crusty mind he feels that treating the
as a jo...
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TheLaw3
7 hours ago
This is the type of corruption which foments civil wars. I really hope we can vote our way out of

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Vincent Davis
8 hours ago
was Trump's son, they would have him already in jail, and waiting
If it to be executed.
I would love to see the entire Biden gang locked up, permanently.

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2ManyGuitars
7 hours ago
No, if it were one of Trumps' kids they would have shaved him bald and dragged him
through the streets of New York chained to the back of a Prius.
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Pierre DuMontierre-Marq
8 hours ago

Hunter's prosecutor was a Trump appointee.

The so-called massive corruption allegations are a separate investigation, though there
ren't even allegations as there is no evidence, despite the Republicans searching for six
There is no evidence the "tapes" even exist. There is no evidence that...
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S Keith
8 hours ago
Who paid Hunter's tax bill (only after he was caught as a tax cheat)? And why?
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Perfectly Flawed
8 hours ago
Was the IRS/DOJ worried classified documents would be found?

“IRS investigators were told by [assistant] US attorney Lesley Wolf that because the
vidence would be found in the guest house of former Vice President Biden ‘there is no way’
search warrant for evidence would ever get approved.”
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Jack Lester
6 hours ago
IfGarland is not given a perp walk, then this is all done for nothing. The only way to stop crime
s through convictions. You remove Garland in order to get indictments and the house of card
come tumbling down
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Mitch45
7 hours ago
I’m disappointed but not surprised. Clearly we are no longer a nation of laws. Very sad.
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TheLaw3
7 hours ago
The judge has to see the plea deal is a cover up.
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Atlanta
5 hours ago
We have seen innumerable Republicans crucified for "false statements", many of them fairly
inor ginned-up process crimes. And yet Democrat after Democrat after Democrat gets
in blatant major lies under oath or before Congress ---- Brennan, Clapper, Koskinen,
Wray, McCabe, Comey, n...
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Emmy Wilson
4hours ago
You forgot Shifty Schiff!!
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John Berger
8 hours ago
Democrats : the rich have told pay their fair share! Unless they're democrats.
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Listening
7 hours ago
True. The rich are mostly democrats :(

Reply 5 Share

Trish Giordano
2 hours ago
Why are the whistleblowers being ignored? Why is the social media and networks ignoring
in these probes?
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TheLaw3
7 hours ago
I am going assume that regular Americans can take
to in millions and not pay taxes on it and
a break like Hunter Biden?
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Diane King
8 hours ago
Charge Garland with perjury. He definitely deserves it.

Reply 36 Share
AverageIndian Woman
8 hours ago
sadly, no one has the fortitude to do it

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SB
8 hours ago
Corruption beyond reproach!
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