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Top Republicans Seek Special Counsel Probe into IRS Whistleblower Retaliation Charges
A bicameral group of five Republicans asked special counsel Henry Kerner on Wednesday to open an investigation into allegations the Department of Justice (DOJ) retaliated against Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents assigned to probe President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.
Three House committee chairmen, Reps. Jason Smith (R-MO), James Comer (R-KY), and Jim Jordan (R-OH), as well as Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI), asked Kerner to brief them by July 17 on actions he has taken to address their request.
“The DOJ and IRS must be held accountable for all instances of whistleblower retaliation and misconduct, and federal agencies cannot conceal their wrongdoing behind illegal nondisclosure directives and related documents,” the Republicans wrote in a letter to Kerner.
The lawmakers referenced allegations leveled by Gary Shapley, who serves as a supervisory special agent for IRS criminal investigations, and Shapley’s attorneys at Empower Oversight that Shapley and his team were removed in May 2023 from a years-long probe into Hunter Biden after Shapley reported alleged missteps in the probe to Congress.
Shapley, a 14-year veteran of the agency, wrote in an affidavit last month that he was removed by DOJ after reporting that he witnessed “conflicts of interest, preferential treatment, deviations from normal investigative procedures, and conflicting information provided by Attorney General Merrick Garland to Congress.”
Hunter Biden walks along the South Lawn before a ceremony for Thanksgiving at the White House in Washington, November 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
The Republicans also allege to Kerner that a senior official in charge of IRS criminal investigations warned Shapley and others about reporting disclosures anywhere other than up the chain of command but that the official failed to include legally necessary anti-gag language in the communication.
The Republicans’ letter follows Jordan, who chairs the Judiciary committee, raising concerns to Garland about the timing of the IRS agents’ removal from the Hunter Biden probe, which Jordan said suggested “retaliatory conduct.”
Garland had kept on U.S. Attorney David Weiss of Delaware, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, to lead the probe, which spanned several years and required work by both the FBI and IRS. The probe remained ongoing while allegations swirled that Hunter Biden’s lucrative foreign business dealings improperly involved his then-vice president father.
In June, Weiss revealed through court documents that he had reached a plea agreement with the younger Biden in which Hunter would plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and see a felony gun charge dropped following a probationary period, a deal many Republican lawmakers have characterized as grossly mild.
Weiss has denied the claims DOJ retaliated against whistleblowers, telling Jordan on Friday in a letter obtained by Breitbart News that DOJ “did not retaliate against ‘an Internal Revenue Service (‘IRS’) Criminal Supervisory Special Agent and whistleblower, as well as his entire investigative team… for making protected disclosures to Congress.’”
The Republican lawmakers emphasized Wednesday to Kerner, “The importance of protecting whistleblowers from unlawful retaliation and informing whistleblowers about their rights under the law cannot be understated. After all, it is the law.”
As a separate matter, Smith, Comer, and Jordan are continuing to investigate the substance of the allegations brought forth by Shapley about what he says was DOJ’s mishandling of the Hunter Biden case.
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Joe will cash out after he pardons Hunter.
George Soros and Obama will continue to run the show with Kamala filling in to make it look good. We don’t want to get the people worked up thinking the Constitution has been again shredded.
They’ll resurrect Michelle, clean up her ranting racism and position her to be the next sovereign as the billionaire class finishes off America in the name of saving us.
Hunter Biden Hires Data Forensics Adviser After Whistleblower Revelations
Hunter Biden announced the addition of a data forensics adviser, who is also a former January 6 committee adviser, to his defense team on Wednesday after House Republican investigators revealed IRS and FBI whistleblower allegations that further expose the Biden family.
Former Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA), who also advised the partisan January 6 Committee House on technical matters, will work with Hunter Biden’s legal team on reducing technical digital exposure facing the Biden family.
President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden attend the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 10, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Kevin Morris, Hunter Biden’s lead attorney, told CBS News that Riggleman consulted with his team in the past months but will now be a staple on the team.
“He is an invaluable resource and we have made tremendous strides in untangling the massive amount of corruption and disinformation involved in this story,” Morris said.
Author Kevin Morris, who is also Hunter Biden’s attorney, attends his “White Man’s Problem” book release party on June 3, 2014, in Los Angeles, California. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
Riggleman also told the network that his “forensics, data, and telephony team are conducting data investigations and analysis for Hunter Biden’s legal team.”
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C-SPANThe GOP House investigation, which brought forward damning whistleblower allegations against the president’s son to the public’s attention, apparently caused Hunter Biden to hire Riggleman. CBS News reported Riggleman provides “insights into House Republicans and their methods” on exposing the Biden family business.
Last week, Hunter Biden’s lawyers did not deny the content of WhatsApp texts given to House investigators from IRS whistleblowers. One text shows Hunter Biden demanded payment in 2017 from a CCP-linked businessman and CEFC business associate while “sitting” next to his dad.
Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) at the Capitol in Richmond, Virginia, on January 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
A second text revealed Hunter Biden asking a second CEFC business associate, Gongwen “Kevin” Dong, for $10 million, noting the Biden family is best at “doing exactly what the chairman wants.”
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Breitbart News reported the Biden family business received $5.1 million within ten days of Hunter Biden’s first message to a CCP-linked businessman who worked with Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC Energy.
House investigators also revealed an FBI informant claims to possess two pieces of evidence that show President Joe Biden received a $5 million bribe from Ukrainian associates of his son.
According to Rep. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the FBI informant document said the founder of Burisma, Mykola Zlochevsky, who allegedly paid Joe Biden, kept 17 audio recordings of his conversations with them as an “insurance policy.”
Ukrainian businessman and founder of the Burisma Holdings company, Mykola Zlochevsky during a media conference. (Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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James Comer: Joe Biden Made 6 ‘Policy Decisions’ that Indicate He’s ‘Compromised’
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) identified “six specific policy decisions” that President Joe Biden made that indicate he could be “compromised.”
Speaking Wednesday with John Catsimatidis’ “Cats & Cosby Show” on WABC 770, Comer said his committee identified a total of six decisions, four of which “were made while Joe Biden was president early on — [where] we cannot come to any other conclusion as to why these decisions were made, other than the fact that this president is compromised.”
“This was organized crime. There’s no other way to define it,” Comer continued.
“We’re going to try to determine how much money the Bidens took, and what role Joe Biden played in all of this,” he added. “It’s a huge puzzle.”
Comer stated:
Around 30 to 40 different banks, and about that many different shell companies. This is an organized attempt by the Biden family to hide the source of money going into these shell companies, and to distract from the IRS so they wouldn’t have to pay taxes on it. And that’s exactly what the IRS whistleblowers alleged in the transcribed interview with the Ways and Means Committee — that the Biden family never paid money on any of these wires that came into these shell companies.
In May, Comer found the Biden family business over the course of several years received at least $10 million from business schemes in Romania and China. In total, nine Biden family members received payments from the family’s foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren.
Breitbart News exclusively reported on Republican lawmakers demanding transparency from Joe Biden regarding his 2017 tax returns in which his entity, “CelticCapri Corp,” listed nearly $10 million without specifying revenue line items, raising concerns about who paid the entity and for what in the wake of Joe Biden’s alleged link to a $5 million Ukrainian “bribery” scheme.
“Biden should disclose and every member of the press ought to hound him until he does,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said.
“You’re looking at a tax return that has $10 million in cash that came from a mystery source,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said on his podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Recent polling exclusively reported to Breitbart News shows a majority of voters believe the Biden family received payments from foreign nationals to influence policy.
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