{"id":1978206,"date":"2023-07-20T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-six-takeaways-from-the-irs-whistleblower-hearing\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T06:32:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T10:32:50","slug":"hunter-biden-investigation-six-takeaways-from-the-irs-whistleblower-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-six-takeaways-from-the-irs-whistleblower-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Key points from the IRS whistleblower hearing on Hunter Biden investigation."},"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\">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-six-takeaways-from-the-irs-whistleblower-hearing%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=1978206&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>A\u200b Pair\u200b of IRS Whistleblowers\u200b Expose \u2062DOJ&#8217;s\u200c Handling\u2063 of Hunter\u200c Biden Investigation<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A pair of \u2062IRS \u2063whistleblowers recently shed \u2062light\u200c on the \u2062Department\u2063 of\u200b Justice&#8217;s questionable \u2063actions \u200cduring the \u200dHunter\u2063 Biden \u2062investigation. Gary \u2062Shapley \u200band\u200c Joseph Ziegler, \u200ctwo\u2062 top IRS agents, testified\u200b before\u2064 the House Oversight Committee\u200b and \u2063House Ways and \u2064Means\u2064 Committee,\u2064 revealing startling details about\u2062 the investigation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Transparency \u2064Issues \u200dand \u200bSuppressed Investigative\u2062 Steps<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>During\u200c the hearing, Shapley and \u2062Ziegler \u2062discussed how the\u2063 DOJ hindered the\u2062 IRS&#8217;s\u2063 efforts to fully \u200binvestigate Hunter \u200dBiden. They \u2063revealed that \u200dthe\u2064 DOJ blocked access to the \u200ccontents\u200c of Hunter\u2062 Biden&#8217;s\u2064 laptop, prevented \u200cthe IRS from\u2062 interviewing Hunter \u200dBiden \u200chimself, \u2062and prohibited \u200cinvestigators from asking\u200c witnesses about messages mentioning\u200b President Joe \u200dBiden.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Key Takeaways from the \u2063Hearing<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Weiss&#8217;s Credibility Under Scrutiny:<\/strong> David Weiss, \u2064the U.S.\u2063 attorney \u200cin Delaware,\u200b faced intense \u2063scrutiny regarding his \u2062statements\u2063 and \u200bactions. \u200bHis contradictory statements\u200b about \u2062his\u2062 charging authority \u2062and\u200c his\u200c seemingly \u2063limited role\u200d in\u200b the \u200cinvestigation\u2062 have\u200d raised\u2064 questions about \u2064his \u2063credibility.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plea Deal\u200d Controversy:<\/strong>\u2062 The\u200c leniency \u2062of the\u200b plea \u2064deal Hunter Biden received from Weiss&#8217;s office was a\u200d topic of\u200d discussion. The whistleblowers\u2062 believed \u2063that felony charges \u2063were\u200c warranted based on \u2064the \u200cevidence\u2064 collected,\u200b but Weiss only \u200cbrought misdemeanor charges \u200brelated \u2063to tax\u2062 evasion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Evidence\u200b Ignored:<\/strong>\u200d The \u200dwhistleblowers testified\u2064 that the \u200dJustice \u200dDepartment ignored strong evidence of more serious\u200b tax\u2062 crimes\u200d committed by\u200c Hunter Biden. They pointed\u2062 to \u2063passages\u200c in \u200cHunter \u200dBiden&#8217;s memoir and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-six-takeaways-from-the-irs-whistleblower-hearing\/\" title=\"Key points from the IRS whistleblower hearing on Hunter Biden investigation.\">explicit\u2062 pictures\u2063 allegedly\u2063 involving \u2063paid escorts<\/a> as \u200cexamples \u2064of \u200cevidence\u2064 that was \u2063disregarded.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conflict \u2064of \u200cInterest:<\/strong>\u2062 Shapley highlighted the\u2064 conflict\u200c of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-taps-lab-leak-denier-to-investigate-covid-origins\/\" title=\"WHO Taps Lab Leak Denier To Investigate COVID Origins\">interest involving<\/a> two\u200c Biden-appointed U.S. \u200cattorneys \u200dwho had \u2063the\u2062 final\u200d say\u200c on\u200c whether\u2062 felony\u2064 charges should\u200c be brought against Hunter Biden.\u200b The fact \u200bthat \u200cno charges were filed in\u2063 their jurisdictions\u2064 raised \u2064concerns.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Payments to Biden \u2064Family\u200b Members:<\/strong> Investigators\u2064 discovered unexplained \u2064payments to \u2063other members \u200bof \u200bthe\u200b Biden\u2063 family, \u200bincluding \u2062President Joe \u200bBiden&#8217;s \u2062grandchildren. \u2064However,\u2064 they were unable to explore \u2064the justification \u200cfor these \u200cpayments or\u200d follow\u200d up \u2063on\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-agents-lose-security-clearances-ahead-of-congressional-testimony\/\" title=\"FBI agents lose clearance before testifying to Congress.\">leads related<\/a> to \u2064Joe Biden.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Call\u2063 for Special Counsel:<\/strong> \u200dBoth House Republicans \u200band\u200c the whistleblowers \u200ccalled\u2063 for the \u200cappointment \u2062of a \u200cspecial\u2064 counsel to \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ed-henry-sues-fox-news-ceo-alleging-cover-up-of-sexual-misconduct\/\" title=\"Ed Henry Sues Fox News CEO, Alleging Cover-Up Of Sexual Misconduct\">independently investigate<\/a>\u200d the \u200bHunter \u2062Biden case. They cited the lack of transparency,\u200d challenges faced by Weiss, and\u2062 the \u200cstatute \u2062of limitations\u2062 as\u2063 reasons\u2063 for this \u200crequest.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Overall, \u2064the\u200b testimony \u2062of \u2063these \u200dIRS whistleblowers \u2062has raised\u2062 serious \u2063concerns about\u200b the\u2064 DOJ&#8217;s \u200bhandling\u200c of\u2062 the Hunter\u2062 Biden investigation and the \u2062lack of \u200ctransparency surrounding it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden investigation. They revealed how the Department of Justice deliberately delayed certain aspects and maintained secrecy regarding the politically sensitive case. Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, prominent IRS whistleblowers, were extensively interrogated about their involvement in the Hunter Biden probe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1978207,"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-1978206","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\/1978206","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=1978206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}