DOJ REJECTS bids to sue Hunter Biden in DC and California, whistleblower says

The powerful House Ways and Means Committee has released new whistleblower testimony alleging that Hunter Biden failed to pay taxes on $8.3 million in earnings and the Justice Department denied attempts to press charges in other states.

The testimony revealed that U.S. attorney David Weiss — the Trump-era holdover who prosecuted the case against Hunter Biden — allegedly applied for special counsel status and was denied by the Justice Department.

Weiss also allegedly tried to sue Hunter in Washington DC and California in the fall of 2022, but that request was denied in January 2023.

But Weiss said in a letter to lawmakers earlier this month that the DOJ had given him “ultimate authority” over when and where to press charges.

The unverified testimony came from two IRS whistleblowers when news broke this week that Hunter Biden would enter an agreement that would see him plead guilty to two tax felonies and avoid jail time on a weapons charge.

The testimony revealed that U.S. attorney David Weiss — the Trump-era holdover who prosecuted the case against Hunter Biden — allegedly applied for special counsel status and was denied by the Justice Department

Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., revealed at a news conference that two IRS employees had alleged that the agency charged Hunter Biden with attempted tax evasion and making false statements.

According to Smith, the whistleblowers said Hunter failed to pay $2.2 million in taxes on $8.3 million in earnings from foreign entities in Ukraine, China and Romania.

Smith said the testimony also shows that the DOJ tried to “delay the investigation long enough to reach the statute of limitations” and “disclose sensitive actions of the investigation team to Biden’s lawyers.”

In one example, a whistleblower statement claimed that the IRS would search a storage unit in Hunter Biden’s Virginia, but tipped off his attorneys before doing so.

In a disclosure, a July 2017 text message from Hunter Biden to Chinese business partner Henry Zhao, the president’s son called on his father to threaten Zhao with payment.

‘I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the agreement that was made has not been kept. Tell the director I want to fix this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight,” the text message read.

“And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make sure that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to always holding a grudge that you will regret if you don’t follow my directions. I’m sitting here waiting for the phone call with my father.’

According to Smith, the whistleblowers claimed the Justice Department was late in verifying the message. They had obtained it in August 2020 after getting back the results of an iCloud search warrant.

“The messages contained material that we clearly needed to follow up on,” a whistleblower statement said.

Leading up to the 2020 election, the IRS had “prepared for when we could go public” by obtaining further leads in the case.

The testimony also revealed that the investigation into Hunter Biden, codenamed Sportsman, was first opened in November 2018 as an outgrowth of an investigation the IRS conducted into an overseas-based amateur online porn platform.

According to “whistleblower 1,” believed to be former IRS agent Gary Shapley, at some point it became clear to the IRS that they needed to search Joe Biden’s boarding house where Hunter had been living for some time.

“Assistant United States Attorney Lesley Wolf told us there was plenty of probable cause for the physical search warrant, but the question was whether the juice was worth the squeeze,” the whistleblower said.