{"id":1977487,"date":"2023-07-19T15:02:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T19:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-agents-warned-against-interviewing-his-adult-children\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T19:03:21","slug":"hunter-biden-investigation-agents-warned-against-interviewing-his-adult-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-agents-warned-against-interviewing-his-adult-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Agents advised against interviewing Hunter Biden&#8217;s adult children during the investigation."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fhunter-biden-investigation-agents-warned-against-interviewing-his-adult-children%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=1977487&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--><h2>The Hunter Biden Criminal \u2064Case: Investigator Obstacles \u2062and \u2063Blocked Leads<\/h2>\n<p>The IRS \u200cwhistleblowers have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-opposition-leader-navalny-sentenced-to-2-5-years-in-prison\/\" title=\"Russian opposition leader Navalny sentenced to 2.5 years in prison\">shed light<\/a>\u200b on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-agents-warned-against-interviewing-his-adult-children\/\" title=\"Agents advised against interviewing Hunter Biden's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">adult children<\/a> during the investigation.&#8221;>significant \u200dhindrances\u200d faced<\/a>\u2064 by \u200dinvestigators in\u200b the Hunter \u2062Biden criminal case. According to IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley, they were not allowed to follow\u200b up\u2063 on crucial leads or interview relevant individuals,\u200c impeding their investigations.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cInvestigators \u200bwere not \u2062allowed\u200b to\u200b follow up on WhatsApp \u200bmessages from Hunter Biden\u2019s \u200dApple I-Cloud backup,\u201d Shapley revealed. \u201cWhere he suggested he was\u2063 sitting next to his father.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One \u200bparticular text message, sent \u200con July 30, \u20622017, to Chinese businessman Henry Zhao, caught\u2062 attention. \u200cIn the message, Hunter\u2064 Biden invoked \u2064his father&#8217;s name and exerted pressure on\u200d CEFC \u2064executives,\u2064 threatening consequences \u200bunless a\u2064 lucrative deal \u200dwas \u2063struck with \u200cYe \u200dJianmin, the \u2064chairman of\u200d CEFC, a Chinese energy company closely \u2064tied to the Chinese \u2063Communist Party.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI \u2062am sitting\u2063 with my father \u2062and we\u2064 would \u2062like \u200cto understand why the\u2062 commitment has not \u2063been fulfilled,\u201d Hunter Biden conveyed to Zhao.\u2062 \u201cI am very concerned that\u200b [Ye] \u2063has either\u2063 changed \u200dhis mind and broken our deal without telling\u2063 me or \u200bthat he\u200c is \u200dunaware \u200bof the \u200bpromises and assurances that\u2063 have\u200d been made\u2063 have not been\u200c kept.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These messages \u200cultimately resulted in substantial sums of money being directed to\u2064 Hunter \u2064Biden&#8217;s\u2062 bank \u2062accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Shapley further disclosed that special agent Joe \u2063Ziegler, \u2063the\u200d other IRS whistleblower, had requested to\u2062 follow up on the messages but was not supported by the prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally,\u2063 the investigators\u200b expressed\u200d a desire\u200d to interview Hunter Biden&#8217;s\u2063 adult children, only to be warned that doing so\u2063 would land\u200b them \u2064in &#8220;hot water.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ziegler emphasized\u2062 the necessity of speaking to\u2063 Hunter \u2064Biden&#8217;s adult children \u2063due to listed\u2063 deductions on his tax returns, \u2064stating, \u2064&#8221;There&#8217;s some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-pm-naftali-bennett-proposes-israel-mediate-between-russia-and-ukraine\/\" title=\"Israeli PM Naftali Bennett Proposes Israel Mediate Between Russia and Ukraine\">special situation<\/a> that might come up that\u200b might cause\u200d caution to interviewing\u200b that \u2063witness,\u2062 but I&#8217;ve never been \u200ctold that\u200b you\u2062 couldn\u2019t approach \u200csomeone \u200dto interview\u2063 them as\u2062 a\u200c part of\u200d an investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These revelations highlight the \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-school-district-promotes-segregated-black-parent-meeting\/\" title=\"California School District Promotes Segregated \u2018Black Parent\u2019 Meeting\">challenges faced<\/a>\u200d by investigators\u200b and the potential impact \u2062on \u200dthe \u200cHunter Biden \u200dcriminal case.<\/p>\n<h3>Click\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">here<\/a>\u2063 to read more \u2063from\u200c The \u200bWashington Examiner.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IRS whistleblowers revealed that the Hunter Biden criminal case investigators faced obstacles in their investigations. They were unable to pursue leads or interview relevant individuals, impeding their progress. Gary Shapley, an IRS supervisory agent, disclosed that they were prohibited from examining Hunter Biden&#8217;s WhatsApp messages, in which he referenced his father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1977488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977487","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}