The Justice Department gave Hunter Biden “preferential treatment” during an investigation into his failure to pay taxes, according to an IRS whistleblower who said prosecutors blocked search warrants, slow-walked the probe and shut down pursuit of leads, including ones that related to President Biden.
Gary A. Shapley Jr. said he’d never seen an investigation handled that way during his 14 years as a criminal investigator with the IRS.
The committee voted Thursday to release the testimony publicly, waiving a section of federal law that generally shields private taxpayer information. “Looking back on everything, they had the best investigators in the nation and the prosecutors were the JV squad and weren’t up to the task of handling such a big case,” he said. “They would often slow-walk investigative steps, often not follow the appropriate investigative procedure, and would say that we couldn’t do or had to wait on certain steps because there were too many approvals in front of us.
The IRS began its probe, and Mr. Shapley said they developed an investigative plan with interviews and search warrants, but those plans were derailed by the Justice Department. Hunter Biden has decided to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and enter a diversionary program for a felony gun charge, in a deal that is expected to shield him from any prison time. The gun charge would be wiped away if he keeps a clean record during two years of probation.Republicans have blasted the deal, saying others facing those charges would receive jail time.“He needs no further approval to do so,” the department said.Mr.
According to former Attorney General William P. Barr, the information was turned over to the Delaware investigation into Hunter Biden. But Mr. Shapley says if that’s true, it was never shared with him, nor with FBI agents working with him.
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