Hunter Biden sent a WhatsApp message demanding payment from a Chinese businessman while “sitting with his father” Joe, according to overwhelming testimony from an IRS whistleblower.
The president’s son was staying at the guest house at Biden’s Delaware home when he wrote a letter to Communist Party official Henry Zhao on July 30, 2017, threatening him to follow his “orders.”
The allegations undermine consistent claims by the Biden family and administration that Joe was not involved in his son’s foreign business dealings.
The IRS whistleblower then stated that they should not get a search warrant, even after the Justice Department learned of the message.
Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee released the latest claims as part of testimony from two IRS whistleblowers who claimed the president’s son received preferential treatment in criminal investigations.
Members of the committee also heard Hunter failed to pay taxes on $8.3 million in income and the Justice Department denied attempts to press charges in other states.
‘I’m sitting here with my father and we would like to know why the agreement that was made has not been kept.’ Hunter wrote in 2017 according to GOP testimony.
Hunter then said, according to the testimony, “Tell the warden I want to fix this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight.”
Hunter Biden sent a WhatsApp message demanding payment from a Chinese businessman while ‘sitting with his father’ Joe, according to overwhelming testimony from an IRS whistleblower
The president’s son was staying at the guest house of Biden’s Delaware home when he wrote a letter to Communist Party official Henry Zhao on July 30, 2017, threatening him to follow his “orders”
“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,” he added.
The unverified testimony came from two IRS whistleblowers when news broke this week that Hunter Biden had agreed to plead guilty to two tax violations while waiving charges against him, likely helping him avoid jail time.
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.
Attorney General Merrick Garland vouched for Weiss on Wednesday, saying he had given him “full authority” to decide how to handle the situation. ‘And that’s what he did,” Garland said.
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.
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.
Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee released the latest allegations as part of testimony from two IRS whistleblowers who claimed the president’s son received preferential treatment in criminal investigations
The unverified testimony came from two IRS whistleblowers when news broke this week that Hunter Biden had agreed to plead guilty to two tax violations while waiving charges against him, likely helping him avoid jail time.
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
“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.