IRS informants said to Congress that a Justice Department official advised against interviewing President Joe Biden’s grandkids as part of the federal investigation into Hunter Biden in order to stay out of trouble.
The House Ways and Means Committee released transcripts of interviews with two IRS whistleblowers on Thursday.
Joe Biden’s Grandchildren Off-Limits for IRS In Hunter Probe
These individuals believe that political considerations appeared to have influenced choices made by DOJ, FBI, and IRS officials during the investigation.
An unknown IRS special agent who claims to have initiated the first investigation and IRS Criminal Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley Jr., who led the investigation, both said that investigators were instructed not to speak with President Joe Biden’s grandkids.
Given that several of the payments Hunter Biden made that they were looking into concerned his offspring, such as a $30,000 tuition payment to Columbia University, the investigators claimed that it would have been routine under normal circumstances to question the grandchildren.
Hunter Biden falsely claimed certain sums as business write-offs on his tax filings, thus the whistleblowers wanted to talk with the concerned grandkids as part of their investigation.
However, Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf warned the investigators in a briefing that speaking with the President’s grandkids would land us in serious hot water.
He added, I know I’ve never interviewed them, and we haven’t either.
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Documenting Offensive Remarks In IR
S Investigation
The unidentified whistleblower claimed that his supervisor made the suggestion to record interactions between the IRS and agents working for US Attorney David Weiss, who was overseeing the investigation, during meetings.
The whistleblower claimed that my supervisor decided it was necessary to start documenting some of the offensive remarks that were being made.
He stated there were numerous occasions when they would talk about the election or politics, and he had to repeatedly tell them that he thought it was wrong for them to do so.
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