{"id":1998193,"date":"2023-08-11T17:43:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T21:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-irs-whistleblower-lawyers-question-david-weisss-credibility-odd-choice\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T17:44:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T21:44:37","slug":"hunter-biden-irs-whistleblower-lawyers-question-david-weisss-credibility-odd-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-irs-whistleblower-lawyers-question-david-weisss-credibility-odd-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden&#8217;s lawyers doubt David Weiss&#8217;s credibility as an IRS whistleblower, calling his selection an &#8220;odd choice.&#8221;"},"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\">34<\/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-irs-whistleblower-lawyers-question-david-weisss-credibility-odd-choice%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=1998193&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>Attorneys Question Credibility of U.S. Attorney David Weiss in Hunter Biden \u2064Investigation<\/h2>\n<p>Attorneys for Gary Shapley, a criminal investigator-turned-whistleblower, are\u2063 raising concerns about the credibility \u200dof U.S. Attorney David Weiss, \u2064who was appointed as special\u200c counsel in the ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Jason Foster, representing Shapley, a veteran IRS agent, testified before Congress in May, revealing that Weiss had\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-irs-whistleblower-lawyers-question-david-weisss-credibility-odd-choice\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden's lawyers doubt David Weiss's credibility as an IRS whistleblower, calling his selection an \"odd choice.\"\">previously\u200d requested special counsel status<\/a> in \u2063the \u2062case but was denied.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Debate Arises \u2062Over Weiss&#8217; Appointment<\/h3>\n<p>In response to Foster&#8217;s testimony, Weiss wrote letters to Congress denying the claim, asserting that he had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irs-whistleblower-emails-suggest-david-weiss-misled-congress-in-letter-claiming-charging-authority\/\" title=\"IRS whistleblower emails indicate that David Weiss may have deceived Congress in a letter where he asserted his charging authority.\">granted ultimate authority<\/a> over the case.<\/p>\n<p>Foster finds Weiss&#8217; appointment as\u200d special counsel\u200d to be peculiar, considering that both Weiss and Attorney General Merrick \u200dGarland\u2064 had previously stated that special counsel authority was unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>Shapley and another IRS agent had expressed concerns to Congress regarding the Biden investigation, \u2062which they had worked \u2062on alongside federal investigators \u2063in Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>Shapley specifically accused Weiss of being prevented from pursuing\u2063 more severe charges against Biden in California and Washington, D.C., and claimed to have witnessed conflicts\u200c of interest and deviations from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-plea-deal-cannot-be-the-final-word-grassley-says\/\" title=\"Grassley: Hunter Biden plea not the final say.\">normal investigative procedures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Foster questions Garland&#8217;s \u200bdecision to select Weiss, who has been\u200b leading\u200b the inquiry since 2019, stating that it is\u2063 an &#8220;odd choice&#8221; given the whistleblower&#8217;s concerns about the handling of the probe and\u2062 the lack of independence.<\/p>\n<p>Foster and Tristan Leavitt,\u200b former Capitol Hill attorneys for Republicans, formed their own group\u2063 called Empower Oversight, which focuses on\u200b protecting whistleblowers.<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt also \u200ccommented on Garland&#8217;s announcement, asserting that Weiss has an obligation to\u2062 address the allegations made by the\u200c IRS agents.<\/p>\n<p>Weiss has agreed to testify before \u2062the House Judiciary Committee in the fall, and the committee expects the Justice Department to fully cooperate by upholding his \u2062commitment to testify.<\/p>\n<p>As special counsel, Weiss will have more\u200c independence and will\u200c not be required to regularly report to other officials at the Justice \u2064Department.<\/p>\n<p>He will also \u200bbe obligated to provide a public report to Garland at the conclusion\u2064 of the investigation, explaining any decisions made regarding prosecutions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys for whistleblower Gary Shapley, a former investigator, doubt U.S. Attorney David Weiss&#8217;s credibility as special counsel in the ongoing Hunter Biden investigation. Shapley&#8217;s lawyer, Jason Foster, highlighted Shapley&#8217;s testimony to Congress, where he revealed that Weiss had previously sought special counsel status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1998194,"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-1998193","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\/1998193","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=1998193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}