IRS Whistleblower Says Biden Admin Interfering in Hunter Tax Fraud Probe
Two Biden administration political appointees within the Justice Department are working to block charges against Hunter Biden for tax violations against recommendations, an IRS whistleblower alleged Wednesday, saying the appointees are engaging in “preferential treatment and politics.”
Hunter is under investigation by the DOJ for tax fraud, money laundering, and violation of lobbying laws. Trump-appointed U.S. prosecutor David Weiss for months has been weighing if there is sufficient evidence for the grand jury to indict him.
According to the whistleblower’s attorney, Mark Lytle, his client wishes to speak with congressional investigators to corroborate his claims of political interference in the probe, which he has reported to the Justice Department’s top watchdog, according to a report.
In a letter obtained by Just the News, “The IRS agent has … disclosed his concerns to both the Treasury Department Inspector General for Tax Administration and Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.” The letter goes on to say:
Specifically, the agent has provided evidence that at least two Biden DOJ political appointees in U.S. attorneys’ offices have declined to seek a tax indictment against Hunter Biden despite career investigators’ recommendations to do so and the blessing of career prosecutors in the DOJ tax division.
In addition, the whistleblower alleges Weiss asked to be named as a special counsel in the probe to provide a degree of separation between the probe and Joe Biden. That request was apparently turned down.
The allegations come as the grand jury appears to have convened as far back as May 2019, a confidential subpoena served to JPMorgan Chase bank reveals. The subpoena sought bank records of Hunter and James Biden.
According to the New York Times, Hunter has tried to settle the DOJ’s probe. In 2021, Hunter paid an outstanding $1 million IRS tax bill to evade conviction or a long sentence. The payment could benefit Hunter’s defense.
The probe into Hunter could implicate President Joe Biden. A witness who testified before the jury was reportedly asked to identify the “big guy.” The “Big Guy” is a reference to a joint venture between the Biden family, associates, and CEFC China Energy Co., in which Joe Biden would receive a ten percent equity stake. CEFC also paid Hunter a $1 million legal retainer.
In March 2018, James Biden demanded the legal services payment and provided CEFC “wiring instructions” to transfer the funds to Hudson West III LLC, an entity James and Hunter controlled.
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) revealed in March the Biden family received a collective $1.3 million cut in 2017 from a Biden family business associate, who was sent a $3 million wire transfer from CEFC. Hunter has confirmed the $1.3 million China payout, while Joe Biden falsely denied it.
Comer believes Biden family members received the $1.3 million in return for favors from Joe Biden. “We believe the reason the family was receiving this money is because of favors that Joe Biden did as vice president and or as president,” Comer told Bloomberg in March.
Comer’s investigation into the Biden family for nine violations, including tax evasion, money laundering, and wire fraud, is a separate probe from the DOJ’s.
Comer’s investigation has encompassed subpoenaing four major U.S. banks and one individual. The subpoenaed banks are Bank of America, Cathay Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and HSBC USA N.A. The banks have complied with the subpoenas.
Comer also subpoenaed the Biden family’s CEFC partner, Mervyn Yan. As a former CEFC official, Yan was an integral member of the Chinese energy conglomerate with strong ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Yan appears to be one of the few top CEFC officials who has not been detained or arrested.
“We’ve been wondering all along where the heck the DOJ and the IRS have been. Now it appears the Biden Administration may have been working overtime to prevent the Bidens from facing any consequences,” Comer told Breitbart News. “The House Oversight Committee will work to hold accountable anyone in the Biden Administration who may be covering up this criminal activity.”
In 2018 and 2020, Breitbart Senior Contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer published Secret Empires and Profiles in Corruption. Each book hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and exposed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force Two in 2013 to China before Hunter’s firm inked a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China less than two weeks after the trip. Schweizer’s work also uncovered the Biden family’s other vast and lucrative foreign deals and cronyism. Breitbart Political Editor Emma-Jo Morris’s investigative work at the New York Post on the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” also captured international headlines when she, along with Miranda Devine, revealed that Joe Biden was intimately involved in Hunter’s businesses, appearing to even have a ten percent stake in a company the scion formed with officials at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
Rep. Comer: 'We've Identified 6 New Biden Family Members Involved in Shady Foreign Transactions'
(CNSNews.com) - The House Oversight Committee's investigation into alleged Biden family influence peddling and personal enrichment is steam-rolling along, with a total of nine Biden family members now identified as being involved.
Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told Fox Business on Monday the committee has "learned a lot that was new" after examining Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) at the U.S. Treasury Department:
"The committee went there today," Comer told Larry Kudlow on Monday afternoon.
"But I've had staff there over the past two weeks. There are thousands of pages of documents relating to financial transactions.
"And let me be very clear, this isn't just about the president's son or the president's brother. We've identified six new Biden family members involved in shady foreign transactions, that we believe were a direct result of influence-peddling.
"That brings the number of Biden family members now to nine that were involved in the Biden family influence-peddling, and we still have more family members that we suspect were involved.
"So this is a family affair. This is something that should be troubling to every American, and what we've learned from going through these records, are, there are a lot of additional LLCs, a lot of additional bank accounts we didn't know prior to going to the Treasury Cabinet. So we've learned a lot.
"This investigation is ongoing but I can tell you, without hesitation, it's very serious. And the president of the United States is going to have a very hard time explaining how so many of his family members have received so much money from our adversaries around the world."
Comer stopped short of saying that the money was passed to Joe Biden:
"Well, we'll have to stay tuned on that. Obviously this is an investigation of the president of the United States," Comer said.
"We've talked to several of the former Biden associates. And we've got bank records. We're going to get more bank records. So I think that question will be answered in due time."
The nine Biden family members mentioned by Comer have not all been identified. But the three Bidens known to have received money from Hunter's business dealings are Hunter; Hallie Biden, Beau Biden's widow (and Hunter Biden's ex-girlfriend), and Hunter's uncle, James Biden.
Comer said on Monday he's subpoenaed six banks, and "I already have those bank records in hand."
He said the committee is now looking at additional banks, "because we’ve learned of new accounts and new LLCs we didn't know existed...
“The one thing that stands out to me is how many different LLCs were involved that this family had their fingerprints on, and we really can't tell what those LLCs did other than launder deposits from our adversaries around the world back to the Bidens."
Comer repeated what he's said before, that "we're going to go where the evidence leads us."
"There will get to a point very soon where the mainstream media as well as (Attorney General) Merrick Garland cannot continue to turn a blind eye to this. This is -- it's strange. It's illegal.
“There's no laws that allow family members to profit from -- from a high-ranking government official, to the tune of what this family has done.
"So I think the American people deserve the truth. We're going to get to the truth. We've already gotten more information than I think critics ever thought we would get. And this information leads to more information we'll continue to request.
"There will be more subpoenas. I think in due time, the American people will get the answers they deserve.”
Prostitution rings?
Comer is not the only one to express surprise at what the committee is learning:
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), an Oversight Committee member, posted a video to Twitter on Monday, in which she discussed her review of Suspicious Activity Reports at the Treasury Department earlier in the day:
"And I have to tell you, there are more Bidens involved than we knew previously,” Mace said:
“And every time you overturn or look under a stone, there's so much more you have to investigate, because it's wild the number of family members involved.
"And it's even the amount of money we're talking about in theses Suspicious Activity Reports is astronomical.
“And the accusations therein, the source of the funding, where the money's going, the shell companies, prostitution rings, etc. -- it's insanity to me that's it's not been investigated in the way it should be."
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