Hunter Biden prosecutor said he was NOT the ‘deciding person’ on charging the president’s son and ‘Main DOJ’ DENIED his ask for special counsel status in DC: Bombshell notes taken from IRS agent raise MORE questions about probe

Newly released notes from IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley on the Hunter Biden investigation reveal that top prosecutor David Weiss has been denied special counsel status in DC by ‘Main DOJ’, raising questions about the politicization of the investigation.

DailyMail.com obtained the handwritten notes of IRS Supervisor Gary Shapley during an Oct. 7, 2022, meeting with Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who was appointed as the top prosecutor in the Hunter case.

He quotes Weiss saying at that meeting that he was “not the decisive person” to charge Hunter Biden with tax crimes, raising questions about DOJ’s possible improper handling of the case. Shapley also noted that “Main DOJ” said “no” to Weiss’ request for special counsel status in DC – contradicting Weiss’ previous statements to Congress that he never requested the special counsel promotion.

The notes also directly refute an FBI agent’s counterclaim about Hunter’s case.

Shapley’s lawyers sent the House Judiciary Committee a copy of his notes from the meeting following an FBI agent’s counterclaim — that Weiss never actually admitted he was not the decisive person in the case.

The Washington Post published the report Tuesday that contradicts Shapley’s claims from FBI agent Thomas Sobocinski, based on an obtained congressional transcript. Shapley’s attorneys say Sobocinski’s claims are false.

The back-and-forth comes a day after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy unilaterally launched an impeachment inquiry against President Biden over his alleged ties to his son’s business dealings. As part of the investigation, the Republican Party is also investigating possible political interference by the Justice Department in Hunter Biden’s criminal investigation.

“Yesterday, the Washington Post published a story reportedly based on a transcript it obtained of the Committee’s interview with Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Sobocinski,” the letter from Shapley’s lawyers.

“Sobocinski was one of seven attendees at the October 7, 2022 meeting,” the letter continues.

According to his lawyers, Shapley wrote an email to his chain of command using notes he compiled during the meeting almost immediately after it ended.

Shapley sent his Oct. 7 email to the House Ways and Means Committee, detailing the events that occurred at the meeting, including Weiss’ statements that he had not yet made a final decision on the matter.

“However, Mr. Sobocinski apparently acknowledged that he did not take notes during the meeting, nor did he document them in any contemporaneous manner afterwards. SSA Shapley, on the other hand, took notes during the meeting.”

Shapley’s attorneys included the original version of the “contemporaneous handwritten notes” that redacted information not yet released by the Ways and Means Committee.

The notes, dated 10/7 in the upper left corner, include a handwritten scribble about a comment Weiss made during the meeting.

Shapley wrote in the notebook, “Weiss said, he’s not the deciding person.”

That directly contradicts Sobocinski’s testimony, in which he says he would have remembered if Weiss had said he wasn’t the deciding person.

In the testimony first obtained by the Washington Post, Sobocinski said he “never felt like (Weiss) needed approval” to file charges.

Furthermore, he believed that Weiss had “the authority to take what he needed.”

He continued, “I never thought there was anyone other than David Weiss to say no.”

“I went into that meeting believing he had the authority, and I left that meeting believing he had the authority to bring charges.”

However, Sobocinski also testified that the Hunter case was moving slowly.

“I would have liked to see it go faster,” he told Congress.

The discrepancies in the testimony come a month after Attorney General Merrick Garland promoted Weiss to special counsel status.

Shapley wrote in the notes, “Weiss requested special counsel status in DC + Main DOJ said ‘no.’

It was almost a full year later that Garland decided to promote Weiss to special prosecutor.

Garland’s decision came after mounting pressure and accusations from IRS whistleblowers that Hunter received “special treatment” during the criminal investigation.

For months, Garland had maintained that Weiss had “full authority” to bring charges against Hunter without restraint and in any district.

But Weiss himself contradicted himself, first telling the House Judiciary Committee that he was “responsible for deciding where, when and whether to file charges,” and the latter saying his charging authority is “geographically limited to my home district.”

He also claimed in a July letter that he did not ask Garland for special counsel status.

That contradicts Shapley’s notes that he was denied the notice by “Main DOJ.”

But now that he has special counsel status, he can prosecute Hunter in any district in the country.

IRS agents Joe Ziegler and Gary Shapley testified under oath to House Republicans that their investigation “supported felony and misdemeanor tax charges,” which were ultimately not filed against the president’s son Hunter due to political pressure.

Weiss tried to file felony charges against him in Washington, D.C., they said, but was blocked by the district’s top federal prosecutor, Matthew Graves, a Biden appointee.

The ‘special treatment’ for Hunter became a pattern that happened over and over again, said the whistleblowers who were told they would get into ‘hot water’ if they tried to talk to President Joe Biden’s adult children and grandchildren during their investigation . .

Hunter appeared in federal court on July 26, prepared to plead guilty to two tax charges and walk away with just a slap on the wrist and no jail time.

Republicans called it a “sweetheart deal” that Biden’s DOJ crafted to protect the president’s son.

However, after Judge Maryellen Noreika questioned the “diversion” of Hunter’s plea deal — a clause that gave him blanket immunity from a wide range of other possible charges, including illegal foreign lobbying — the deal blew up in spectacular fashion.

Noreika dismissed the charges in Delaware last month after requests from the prosecutor.

Last week, federal prosecutors indicated they will charge Hunter with another gun crime by the end of the month.

But they could still incur additional costs associated with his foreign business venture.