A mere 16 days after Joe Biden assumed the presidency, top officials in his Justice Department raised suspicion among career IRS agents by demanding a briefing on the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, according to evidence turned over to Congress that raises new questions about Attorney General Merrick Garland's claims of an interference-free probe.
The recipients on Wolf's email included Ziegler, the IRS case agent on the Hunter Biden tax probe that was codenamed "Sportsman." A short while later, Ziegler's supervisor, Shapley, alerted the IRS chain of command about concerns that Biden's new DOJ officials were asking to join the meeting, including one from the National Security Division that had no jurisdiction in the tax probe.
File ShapleyZieglerEmailsDOJSportsmanBriefing2-5-21.pdf The request for the briefing escaped public and media notice for two years and is now the earliest known evidence of intervention by Biden DOJ officials into the Hunter Biden case.
The DOJ's history of obstruction in Hunter Biden-related cases, they testified to Congress, included being turned down for perfectly legal search warrants for Joe Biden's property and Hunter Biden's storage locker, being blocked from inquiring about Joe Biden or his grandchildren and being thwarted from doing a surprise interview with Hunter Biden.
The IRS whistleblowers have also provided documentary evidence that the Biden-appointed U.S. Attorneys in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles blocked Weiss' efforts to charge Hunter Biden for tax crimes in their jurisdiction, including not paying taxes on $400,000 in income Hunter Biden received from his controversial work for the Ukrainian-based Burisma Holdings.
In notes from an October 2022 meeting with the investigative team on the Hunter Biden case, Shapley wrote that Weiss-whose Delaware office is in charge of the Hunter Biden case-told the team that "He is not the deciding person" when it comes to how and when charges are brought against Hunter Biden because the alleged crimes occurred in other districts, principally Washington, D.C. and in California, where both U.S. Attorney's Offices were occupied by Biden appointees.
In another instance, after Shapley and his team at the IRS had completed their report into Hunter Biden which recommended filing criminal tax charges, the DOJ Tax Division prepared a "99-page memo" that Shapley understood supported the recommendations of the IRS team.
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