{"id":1520810,"date":"2022-06-17T13:49:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T17:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520810"},"modified":"2022-06-17T13:49:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T17:49:19","slug":"biden-doj-thwarts-gop-senators-seeking-answers-on-hunter-biden-investigation-conflict-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-doj-thwarts-gop-senators-seeking-answers-on-hunter-biden-investigation-conflict-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden DOJ Thwarts GOP Senators Seeking Answers On Hunter Biden Investigation, Conflict Of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-doj-thwarts-gop-senators-seeking-answers-on-hunter-biden-investigation-conflict-of-interest%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520810&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Department of Justice (DOJ) apparently blocked Republican senators from questioning a U.S. attorney on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/inside-the-nightmare-scenario-facing-the-biden-family-in-hunters-criminal-investigation\">ongoing federal investigation<\/a> into President Joe Biden\u2019s son, Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/grassley_johnson_to_delaware_usa_-_biden_investigation.pdf\">wrote<\/a> to U.S. attorney David Weiss of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in May about potential conflicts of interest and the state of the investigation. The senators received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/justice_depttograssleyjohnsonbideninvestigation.pdf\">response<\/a> from the DOJ, not Weiss, earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The letter began by referencing responses that the DOJ had made to the senators\u2019 queries on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hunter-biden\">Hunter Biden<\/a> investigation on February 19, 2021, March 22, 2021, July 13, 2021, and February 2, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Department explained in those responses, Department attorneys receive ethics and professional responsibility training as appropriate, sign a pledge to maintain public trust in government, and are subject to the Department\u2019s scrupulous ethics and recusal protocols,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n<p>The senators had asked Weiss, who is leading the investigation into Hunter Biden, about former acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Nicholas McQuaid\u2019s role in the probe. McQuaid, who is currently the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, was a colleague of Hunter Biden\u2019s criminal defense attorney Christopher Clark before joining the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the Department appreciates your interest in this matter, consistent with its policies, it will not be able to provide you with any further information regarding Department officials\u2019 employment or specific recusal decisions,\u201d the DOJ\u2019s response continued.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ suggested in a February letter that McQuaid had recused himself from the case, saying \u201cPursuant to this pledge and applicable standards set forth in statutes, regulations, as well as longstanding Department policies and procedures, the Acting Assistant Attorney General is screened and recused from matters in which he has a financial interest or a personal business relationship, including matters involving his former law firm,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/doj-blocks-gop-effort-answers-hunter-biden-investigation\">The Washington Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hunter-biden-says-tax-affairs-under-federal-investigation\">announced<\/a> in December 2020, about a month after his father\u2019s election to the White House, that he was under investigation by the FBI for his \u201ctax affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learned yesterday for the first time that the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel, also yesterday, that they are investigating my tax affairs,\u201d Hunter said at the time. \u201cI take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice (DOJ) apparently blocked Republican senators from questioning a U.S. attorney on an ongoing federal investigation into President Joe Biden\u2019s son, Hunter. 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Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) wrote to U.S. attorney David Weiss of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in May about potential conflicts of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1520849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1520849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}