The yearslong criminal investigation into Hunter Biden has aired a lot of dirty laundry about the president’s son’s attempts at foreign business and his descent into drug addiction. Misunderstandings fuel suspicion One of Shapley’s most serious allegations, supported by his IRS agent colleague Joseph Ziegler, was that the Biden-appointed U.S. attorneys in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles had prevented Weiss …
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WASHINGTON — House Republicans raised unsubstantiated allegations Wednesday against President Joe Biden over his family’s finances as they summoned IRS whistleblowers to testify publicly for the first time about claims the Justice Department improperly interfered with a tax investigation into Biden’s son Hunter. And the White House, in a statement, called the investigation and subsequent hearing part of “politically-motivated attacks …
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland pushed back Friday against claims from IRS whistleblowers that the Justice Department interfered with the investigation into Hunter Biden, saying more broadly that attacks on the department’s independence are corrosive. Weiss never made such a request, Garland said Friday, and always had full authority to file charges wherever and however he saw fit against …
WASHINGTON — House Republicans released testimony Thursday from two IRS whistleblowers who allege that the Justice Department interfered with their yearslong investigation into President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter — a charge the department swiftly denied. “Whistleblowers describe how the Biden Justice Department intervened and overstepped in a campaign to protect the son of Joe Biden by delaying, divulging and denying …
