Corrupt creepy Joe DOJ chose not to charge corrupt son, Hunter, before 2022 elections for obvious political purposes

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DOJ delayed Hunter Biden charges ahead of midterms to not ‘shoot themselves in the foot’: whistleblower docs​

By Caitlin Doornbos
Published Sep. 27, 2023, 6:57 p.m. ET

Link: https://nypost.com/2023/09/27/doj-h...t-themselves-in-the-foot/?utm_source=twitter/

[see vid at site link, above]

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WASHINGTON – Federal prosecutors looking into tax fraud allegations against first son Hunter Biden made a point of delaying a charging decision in the case until after last year’s midterm elections to avoid “shooting themselves in the foot,” according to newly released whistleblower documents.
The revelation came from IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley’s typed notes following a Sept. 22, 2022, meeting between investigators and prosecutors, during which the Delaware US Attorney’s Office and the Justice Department’s Tax Division “made the decision not to charge until after the election.”
“They said why should they shoot themselves in the foot by charging before,” Shapley wrote in his notes from that day.
The message was relayed to the investigative team by Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf, Shapley wrote in an affidavit dated Sept. 20, 2023.
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Prosecutors looking into tax fraud allegations against Hunter Biden made a point to delay a decision in the case until after last year’s midterm elections to avoid “shooting themselves in the foot.”REUTERS
“AUSA Wolf revealed prosecutors had decided not to charge the case until after the midterm election so as not to shoot themselves in the foot – even though they were not being directed by Justice Department headquarters to pause overt activity,” he stated in the document.
It is unclear what prosecutors meant by “shoot themselves in the foot.”
The notes were released Wednesday by the House Ways and Means Committee as part of a 700-page batch of documents, messages and emails from the five-year-long probe of Hunter, now 53.
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The revelation came from IRS agent Gary Shapley’s typed notes following a meeting between investigators and prosecutors.CNP/startraksphoto.com
After the learning of prosecutors’ decision to wait until the elections were completed, Shapley made a series of objections by email and in meetings, according to the documents.
That continued until he and fellow whistleblower IRS Special Agent Joseph Ziegler were abruptly taken off the case this past May “at the request of Delaware USAO and DOJ.”
According to Shapley, other members of the investigative unit, including Baltimore FBI Special Agent in Charge Tom Sobocinski and FBI Assistant Agent in Charge Ryeshia Holley, also raised “major concerns about the delays, decision-making and lack of resolution in this case.”
Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Jason Smith3
The notes were released Wednesday by the House Ways and Means Committee as part of a 700-page batch of documents, messages and emails from the five-year-long probe of Hunter Biden.Getty Images
In a May 15 meeting, Shapely alleged that the prosecutor’s request to replace he and Ziegler “seemed nefarious … since the original team raised contemporaneous unethical conduct by the prosecutors that could simply be brushed over by DOJ with the new team,” according to his notes taken that day.
“ stated that had been providing updates to IRS-[Criminal Investigation] leadership since at least June of 2020 that provided specific examples of Delaware USAO and DOJ being unethical, inappropriate and providing preferential treatment to the subject,” Shapley wrote.
“ stated that if they simply do what those parties requested without taking into consideration that they are not acting appropriately,” he added, “that IRS-CI would be complicit in the unethical conduct by Delaware USAO and DOJ.”
 

Tom Fitton: Given the evidence, it should be just a matter of when Biden is impeached….​

September 29, 2023 5:59 am by CWR

Link: https://citizenwatchreport.com/tom-...-be-just-a-matter-of-when-biden-is-impeached/

[see several vids at site link, above]

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Simple documentary evidence showing how hard and diligently creepy Joe "worked" with and for his dearly beloved son, Hunter, who refused to register as foreign agent.

 

Days after Joe Biden became president, his DOJ sought briefing on Hunter criminal case, memos show​

Link: https://justthenews.com/accountabil...tion-doj-officials-requested-briefings-hunter

The request for a roundup of Hunter Biden-related cases alarmed agents because some attendees from DOJ -- including Biden political appointees -- had no authority in the case. That puts Merrick Garland's insistence of "no DOJ interference" into serious doubt.

By Steven Richards and John Solomon

October 4, 2023 8:22pm
Updated: October 4, 2023 8:45pm
Amere 16 days after Joe Biden assumed the presidency, top officials in his Justice Department raised suspicion among career IRS agents by demanding a briefing on the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, according to evidence turned over to Congress that raises new questions about Attorney General Merrick Garland's claims of an interference-free probe.
The Feb. 5, 2021 meeting between U.S. Attorney David Weiss' office in Delaware and a some of Biden's new assistant attorneys general in DOJ's Washington headquarters was chronicled in email exchanges between federal prosecutors and IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler. Weiss was leading the probe into the first son,
"The 5 attorneys have the briefing at 1130 with the AAGs," Delaware Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf wrote to the IRS and FBI agents working the case who were told their regular meeting with Wolf might be delayed by the briefing in Washington.
"It is scheduled for an hour, but if we aren’t on at 1230, you will know that it ran long. You guys can either start without us or people can log out and we will shoot an email out when we are done." Wolf said.
The recipients on Wolf's email included Ziegler, the IRS case agent on the Hunter Biden tax probe that was codenamed "Sportsman." A short while later, Ziegler's supervisor, Shapley, alerted the IRS chain of command about concerns that Biden's new DOJ officials were asking to join the meeting, including one from the National Security Division (NSD) that had no jurisdiction in the tax probe. Some of the attendees were Biden political appointees.
"We learned today that USAO and DOJ Tax are briefing the new AAG on the tax case today," Shapley wrote his boss. "NSD asked for a briefing so they could understand the tax side of the case. I don’t understand why this matters to them since they are NSD…but I just wanted to give you an update that this meeting was."
You can read those emails here.
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ShapleyZieglerEmailsDOJSportsmanBriefing2-5-21.pdf [ck site link, above]

The request for the briefing escaped public and media notice for two years and is now the earliest known evidence of intervention by Biden DOJ officials into the Hunter Biden case. It comes only weeks after reports disclosed that Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer had contact with Hunter Biden's attorneys in May during the effort to negotiate a now-abandoned plea deal that would have spared Hunter Biden prison time on tax evasion and gun charges.
Hunter Biden has since been charged with three gun felonies and remains under investigation for other potential offenses after a federal judge rejected his plea deal. Biden has pleaded "Not Guilty" to those charges.
The new revelation -- contained in documents that Ziegler and Shapley turned over during their whistleblower cooperation with the House Ways and Means Committee -- is certain to heighten concerns among congressional investigators who are suspicious of Garland's claims that his his DOJ kept hands off of the Hunter Biden probe and left all decisions to Weiss' office.
Shapley and Ziegler have been relentlessly attacked by Hunter Biden's attorney Abbe Lowell, who contended that both Shapley and Ziegler broke federal law when making protected disclosures to Congress. Lowell told CNN that the whistleblowers were "disgruntled agents with an axe to grind."
The two agents, however, have been authorized by Congress to make their disclosures public and have backed up their testimony with thousands of pages of documents.
The DOJ's history of obstruction in Hunter Biden-related cases, they testified to Congress, included being turned down for perfectly legal search warrants for Joe Biden's property and Hunter Biden's storage locker, being blocked from inquiring about Joe Biden or his grandchildren and being thwarted from doing a surprise interview with Hunter Biden. In fact, instead of allowing agents to simply interview Hunter Biden, DOJ officials contacted Joe Biden's team and told them ahead of time that they wanted to speak with Hunter Biden.
“I am blowing the whistle because the Delaware U.S. Attorney's Office, Department of Justice Tax, and Department of Justice provided preferential treatment and unchecked conflicts of interest in an important and high-profile investigation of the President's son, Hunter Biden,” Shapley testified to Congress this summer.
The IRS whistleblowers have also provided documentary evidence that the Biden-appointed U.S. Attorneys in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles blocked Weiss' efforts to charge Hunter Biden for tax crimes in their jurisdiction, including not paying taxes on $400,000 in income Hunter Biden received from his controversial work for the Ukrainian-based Burisma Holdings. Instead, the DOJ let the statute of limitations run on those potential tax crimes.
An FBI agent recently corroborated Ziegler's and Shapley's account about the blocked charges during an interview with the House Judiciary Committee, Just the News recently reported.
The evidence appears to be mounting: The criminal charges blocked from Washington and Los Angeles; the Deputy Attorney General Office's role in the disastrous plea deal this spring; and now the disclosure about a request for a briefing a scant 16 days after the inauguration.
Collectively, all of these documents and testimony have raised fresh doubts with House Republicans about the accuracy or truthfulness of Merrick Garland's statement to the House and Senate that Weiss' office was "left alone" to make decisions on the case, had full authority, and faced no interference from main DOJ staff or Joe Biden's political appointees.
“He has been advised that he should get anything he needs….I have not heard anything from that office that suggests they are not able to do anything that the U.S. attorney wants them to do,” Garland testified this spring. But after repeatedly being questioned by Sen. Chuck Grassley, Garland recently admitted Weiss that his prosecutors in Los Angeles and Washington DC. could have blocked the cases as the agent alleged.
House investigators recently sent DOJ a demand for documents and answers about some of the DOJ intervention. You can read that here:

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2023-09-06-jdj-js-jc-to-clark-lowell-re-hb-docs-shared-with-media.pdf [see site link, above]

Congressional investigators also are interested in why DOJ's National Security Division --- which faced sharp criticism for misleading applications for FISA warrants in the now discredited Russia collusion probe against Donald Trump and the 2022 raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in the classified documents case -- was trying to inject intself into a meeting about Hunter Biden's tax case.
"This could be the first glimpse into what I've been saying for a very long time about that team Obama had inserted into the National Security Division of the FBI and the Department of Justice," Former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes told the "Just the News, No Noise" televsion show on Wednesday evening.
"This is where the plumbers are. This is where the operatives are. This is where the people are that are doing the worst things at the Justice Department, throughout our government. This is where they live." Nunes said.
"This is what we found out during the Russia hoax. We now have found it out. John, through your great reporting on the Ukraine impeachment hoax. This is all hidden in the National Security Division," he added. "Why? Because it's the area where they can wall off the rest of the Department of Justice and the FBI and say, Oh, this is top secret Our nation is at risk. Things could blow up. People could die if nobody. If if people learn about this, this is why we have to keep it so secret," he continued.
In notes from an October 2022 meeting with the investigative team on the Hunter Biden case, Shapley wrote that Weiss—whose Delaware office is in charge of the Hunter Biden case—told the team that “He is not the deciding person” when it comes to how and when charges are brought against Hunter Biden because the alleged crimes occurred in other districts, principally Washington, D.C. and in California, where both U.S. Attorney’s Offices were occupied by Biden appointees.
Shapley wrote that before Weiss would be allowed to bring tax charges against Hunter Biden, he must get approval from the Justice Department Tax Division. “Tax will grant discretion/not approve,” Shapley noted.
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T80-Shapley-2_2023-09-13-Letter-to-WM-Finance-10-7-22-notes.pdf
Shapley also testified to congressional investigators that after his team planned multiple interviews related to the case, Assistant U.S. Attorney Wolf told him and his team that “I do not think you are going to be able to do these interviews as planned.”
“She told us they would require approval from the Tax Division,” Shapley said of the interviews.
In another instance, after Shapley and his team at the IRS had completed their report into Hunter Biden which recommended filing criminal tax charges, the DOJ Tax Division prepared a “99-page memo” that Shapley understood supported the recommendations of the IRS team.
“I never saw it, but my understanding was, is that we were moving -- we were going to go to D.C., and we were going to charge, and here's the discovery. That was the trajectory there,” Shapley testified. “So I've never seen the document, but it's been described to me as supporting those years and charging those years.”
“Do you feel like the document was kept from you and your team?” Shapley was asked by congressional investigators.
“Yeah. I don't know there's any reason not to share it with us. I don’t know why,” he said. “And it's also outside the norm.”
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Whistleblower 1 Transcript_Redacted.pdf
Hunter Biden’s attorneys also repeatedly sought, and obtained, meetings with DOJ officials in order to pressure the Department into forgoing the charges against their client. According to Politico, from fall 2022 through spring 2023, Hunter Biden’s attorney Chris Clark, “sought meetings with people at the highest levels of the Justice Department.”
In multiple emails, Clark sought meetings with the head of the Criminal Division, the Tax Division, the Office of Legal Counsel, the Office of the Solicitor General, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and the Attorney General.

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How About Hunter? Justice Department Adds FARA Charge To Menendez Prosecution​

BY TYLER DURDEN
SUNDAY, OCT 15, 2023 - 05:40 PM
Authored by Jonathan Turley,

Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/political...rtment-adds-fara-charge-menendez-prosecution/

The Justice Department this week hit Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) with a superseding indictment including a new but all-too-familiar charge: being an unregistered foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

I cannot recall another sitting member of Congress being criminally charged as a foreign agent.
Yet even if this is the first such case, the charge has been freely used by the Justice Department in all but one case: Hunter Biden.
The indictment accuses Menendez of being a foreign agent on behalf of Egypt.

Also charged under the law is Menendez’s wife, Nadine, and Egyptian American businessman Wael Hana.
After they discussed various foreign policy priorities at one dinner, Nadine is quoted as asking her Egyptian counterparts, “What else can the love of my life do for you?”

The government alleges that the couple agreed to have Menendez “use his power and authority to facilitate such sales and financing to Egypt.” In addition to other benefits, the government alleges that Hana promised to put Nadine on the payroll of his company in a “low-or-no-show job.”
The indictment further alleges that the senator disclosed “nonpublic information about the United States’s provision of military aid to Egypt” during a dinner with Hana in 2018.
It also claims that the senator “secretly edited and ghost-wrote” a letter “on behalf of Egypt” trying to convince other senators to release a hold on $300 million in aid to the country.
The inclusion of the FARA charge against Menendez, his wife and his associate only highlights the absence of any such charge against President Biden’s son Hunter.
For years, some of us have raised the glaring contradiction in how the Justice Department has approached the Hunter Biden case with its treatment of past defendants like Donald Trump associate Paul Manafort.
The Justice Department has been quick to indictment Manafort and others on FARA charges, but continues to prevaricate over such a charge for the president’s son.
Indeed, when Menendez was charged, I wrote about the striking similarities in the cases, including the gifts and benefits showered on both men.
They remain similar in every way except the charges.
FARA covers anyone acting as “agent of a foreign principal,” including but not limited to (1) attempting to influence federal officials or the public on domestic or foreign policy or the political or public interests in favor of a foreign country; (2) collecting or disbursing money and or other things of value within the United States; or (3) representing the interests of the foreign principal before U.S. Government officials or agencies.
It is sweeping.
So is the definition of what a “foreign principal” encompasses, including “a foreign government, a foreign political party, any person outside the United States (except U.S. citizens who are domiciled within the United States), and any entity organized under the laws of a foreign country or having its principal place of business in a foreign country.”
It is easy to see why FARA charges have been quickly brought in cases ranging from Manafort to Menendez. It is less clear why such charges remains strikingly absent from the Hunter case.
In Hunter’s case, he was selling what associate Devon Archer called the “Biden brand” and asking, to paraphrase Nadine Menendez, “What else can [my dad] do for you?”
The House committees have confirmed not only millions transferred to Hunter and other Biden family members, but direct contacts made by Hunter with federal officials and agencies in relation to his foreign clients.
Archer described how Burisma executives told Hunter that they were worried about the anti-corruption investigation of Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin.
Archer testified that Hunter immediately “called D.C.” in response to the plea.
Shokin was later fired at Vice President Joe Biden’s demand.
In shaking down a Chinese source for more money, Hunter reportedly sent a WhatsApp message that reminded him that “The Bidens are the best at doing exactly what Chairman wants.”
The message was to Gongwen (“Kevin”) Dong, a CEFC China Energy executive with close ties to the Chinese government, and included a threat that “I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled … I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”
Throughout his open influence-peddling, emails show Hunter was fully aware of the risk of being charged under FARA.
The problem with FARA is that it would require the Bidens to publicly acknowledge their work as foreign agents and, by extension, their massive influence-peddling operation.
In one message, Hunter addressed his work for the Chinese CEFC energy company and warned:
“No matter what it will need to be a US company at some level in order for us to make bids on federal and state funded projects. Also We [sic] don’t want to have to register as foreign agents under the FCPA which is much more expansive than people who should know choose not to know. James has very particular opinions about this so I would ask him about the foreign entity.”
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“James” is his uncle Jim Biden, who has also been regularly accused of corrupt influence-peddling tied to Joe Biden.
In the message, Hunter gets it.
The law is indeed “expansive.”
His uncle clearly gets it.
The question is why the Justice Department gets it in every case except those with targets named Biden.
For many, the question is not whether Hunter has acted as an agent of foreign principals but whether the Justice Department is acting as an agent of the principal Biden.
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Prosecutor Livid After FBI Refused To Pursue 'Credible' Biden-Ukraine Corruption Allegations, Grassley Reveals 40 Informants​

BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, OCT 26, 2023 - 10:25 AM

Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/political...redible-biden-ukraine-corruption-allegations/

While January 6th protesters languish in prison for participating in a fed-filled march on the Capitol, the Biden family sits pretty atop their ivory tower as the FBI covers for their multitude of obvious crimes.

In two bombshell reports from Just the News, we learn that not only was a prosecutor livid over the FBI's "reluctance" to pursue credible claims of corrupt Biden dealings in Ukraine (the thing Democrats impeached Trump for asking about), the agency had evidence from more than 40 informants spanning 'years of investigation,' which DOJ and FBI officials sought to undermine, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed in a Wednesday letter.
First, the prosecutor.
Former Pittsburgh U.S. Attorney Scott Brady revealed to the House Judiciary Committee that his team found enough credible evidence in its initial review of Hunter Biden’s dealings with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings and possible corruption by Joe Biden to refer criminal matters to three separate U.S. Attorney's offices in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Delaware for further investigation.
But almost immediately after he was assigned by the Justice Department in 2020 to review Biden family matters in Ukraine, Brady said he encountered resistance at both the FBI and the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s office that at times required him to escalate to his bosses in the deputy attorney general’s office. -Just the News
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"It was a challenging working relationship," Brady said of the agency in testimony earlier this week. "I think there was reluctance on the part of the FBI to really do any tasking related to our assignment from DAG Rosen and looking into allegations of Ukrainian corruption broadly and then specifically anything that intersected with Hunter Biden and his role in Burisma. It was very challenging."
"I would have thought that would be something, especially as has been publicly reported, there's information relating to Hunter Biden's activities on the board of Burisma in Ukraine, that might have been helpful in our assessment of the information that we were receiving about him. I would have expected that be shared," Brady continued, adding that he encountered similar resistance trying to hand off evidence to David Weiss and his deputy Lesley Wolf in the fall of 2020.
"Speaking generally, from a process perspective, I think there was both a skepticism of the information that we were developing, that we had received, and skepticism and then weariness of that information," Brady said of Weiss's office. "I think they were very concerned about any information sharing with our office.
"It became problematic at different points, which required Mr. Weiss and me to get involved and level set, as it were, but it was regularly a challenge to interact with the investigative team from Delaware," he continued.
Second, the 40 informants.
In a Tuesday letter, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed that the FBI had more than 40 informants on the Biden family over an extended period of time, but that most avenues of investigation were thwarted.
"This letter is based on years of investigation, including the provision of information, records, and allegations from multiple Justice Department whistleblowers that indicate there is - and has been - an effort among certain Justice Department and FBI officials to improperly delay and stop full and complete investigative activity into the Biden family, including but not limited to FD-1023s referencing the Biden family," wrote Grassley.
"This alleged political infection breaks faith with the American people, and it will ruin our governmental institutions should it continue. As just one initial example," he continued, "I've been made aware that at one point in time the FBI maintained over 40 Confidential Human Sources that provided criminal information relating to Joe Biden, James Biden, and Hunter Biden."
Grassley says Americans need to know: "Did the FBI investigate the information or shut it down?"

More via Just the News;
"That's a lot of taxpayer dollars implemented towards one target or one target set," former Trump advisor Kash Patel said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "Any national security prosecutor like myself will tell you that usually you have a couple or maybe a handful... but 40? That's the most I've ever heard of. That's more than in mob cases and RICO cases."
The Iowa lawmaker further indicated that he had identified 25 Department of Justice and FBI personnel for interviews "who either had a direct or indirect role in the allegations" he mentioned. He further asked that Garland provide him with a litany of records on the Biden family.
The Department of Justice already faces allegations of slow-walking the tax investigation into first son Hunter Biden. A pair of IRS agents who worked on the case came forward earlier this year with allegations that Biden-appointed officials had worked to stifle the investigation and prevent the bringing of more sever charges against Hunter Biden.
Grassley's requests come as the House of Representatives continues its own investigations into the first family. Those efforts have thus far uncovered extensive foreign payments linked to Biden family businesses.
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And of course, the establishment protects its own.
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Biden Prosecutor Read Three Notes on Hunter Biden Case, Refused to Cooperate with Special Counsel​

By Kyle Becker
October 28, 2023

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New evidence shows that E. Martin Estrada, who was named by President Joe Biden as U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, failed to work with David Weiss, who is the U.S. Attorney for Delaware, to bring charges against Hunter Biden in his district.
Estrada’s statement shows that that soon after he was sworn in, he met with his team of U.S. attorneys to talk about Weiss’s request to work together on the Hunter Biden case. Estrada finally talked to Weiss on the phone and told him that he was not going to be a co-counsel on the charges.
“I first learned about — that there was a Hunter Biden investigation touching on our district shortly after taking the seat. So it would have been late September 2022 or early October 2022,” Estrada testified. He went on to discuss his conversations with the attorneys in his office surrounding Weiss’ request to partner.
“I learned from attorneys in my office, career attorneys in my office, that there was a request from the District of Delaware to partner or cocounsel [sic] on certain charges that they were investigating; that our career attorneys had communicated that they were recommending against partnering or cocounseling in the charges being contemplated; and that the District of Delaware, through Mr.Weiss, wanted to speak to me about that,” Estrada said.
Estrada’s first assistant U.S. attorney (FAUSA) told him about Weiss’s request first, but Estrada wouldn’t say who that person was in his evidence.
“My first assistant, my then First Assistant United States Attorney brought — told me that there had been this request from the District of Delaware to cocounsel or partner on the case; that the chief of my Major Frauds Section, who would be the person who makes these decisions, was recommending against doing so; and that that had been communicated to the District of Delaware,” Estrada testified.

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He didn’t know if the choice not to partner had been made before or after he started his job in late September 2022. Estrada’s evidence shows that the lawyer above his Major Frauds section boss, who was the criminal chief of his division, agreed with the advice not to work with Weiss.
Estrada made it clear that “cocounsel” on the case meant to work together on it. He said that as a U.S. attorney or assistant U.S. attorney, he had never worked with a co-counsel before.
The U.S. Attorney also said that the acting U.S. attorney for his district, who was his boss, gave the go-ahead for Delaware assistant U.S. attorneys to become special lawyers, which means they can practice law in his district. His evidence shows that Estrada did not know the specifics of what happened with the hiring of the “special attorney.”
Estrada met with his Major Frauds chief and criminal chief twice to talk about how to work together with Weiss’ office to charge Hunter Biden. He said that before his first meeting with his bosses in October 2022, he read three notes that helped him decide not to work with them on the case.
“Based on the recommendation of my major frauds chief and my then Criminal Division chief who, combined, had over 40 years’ experience as prosecutors, I agreed that we would not partner or cocounsel in the prosecution; but I did tell Mr.Weiss that we’d provide office space and administrative support for his attorneys in their prosecution,” Estrada said.
“Ultimately, it was my — my conclusion. They had already made recommendations. And having reviewed the materials and doing analysis and then speaking with them about materials and analysis, I agreed with their recommendations,” he added.
After his team’s first meeting on October 19, 2022, Estrada called Weiss. According to the evidence record, Weiss asked to talk on the phone, and Estrada told him what he thought about the Hunter Biden case.
“I can’t get into the deliberative process. But I discussed our analysis of facts and law to explain to him why we would not be cocounseling on the case, but then I told him that we were happy to provide office space, administrative support for his attorneys. He thanked me for that and the call ended,” Estrada said.
A short time after his call with Weiss, Estrada met with his top leaders again and told them about his five-minute conversation with Weiss.
The evidence says that Estrada and Weiss talked on the phone again on September 19, 2023, but it wasn’t about working together as lawyers on the Hunter Biden case. Estrada didn’t talk about the specifics of the call because the investigation into Hunter Biden is still going on.
Estrada said that he had never met the U.S. attorneys from Delaware who were said to have been given special permission to pursue cases in his district. It is not clear if those lawyers ever went to Estrada’s district.
The claim that Weiss wasn’t able to file tax charges in California and Washington, D.C., is one of the most shocking ones from IRS agents who swore as part of a GOP investigation that the case had been “slow-walked” and treated badly by the Justice Department.
Martin Estrada, the U.S. Attorney for Los Angeles, said that he told the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday, behind closed doors, that he knew Weiss had the power to bring charges and offered to help him with the paperwork. In a statement, he said, “I did not and could not ‘block’ Mr. Weiss because he did not need my permission to bring charges in my district.”
This is similar to what U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves said last week. He said that while he didn’t want to work with Weiss, he never tried to stop him and instead offered to help with logistics.
Weiss is set to appear before the Judiciary Committee at the beginning of November.
 

As Joe Biden promised tax fairness, his son rushed to erase his delinquent taxes, IRS memos show​

Internal IRS memos chronicle effort during Joe Biden's 2020 campaign to clean up Hunter Biden's delinquent taxes and the suspicions his accountant had about Hunter Biden's truthfulness.

By Steven Richards and John Solomon
Published: November 9, 2023 8:44pm
Updated: November 10, 2023 12:01am

Link: https://justthenews.com/accountabil...sented-income-accountant-he-tried-remedy-tax/

As Joe Biden marched toward the presidency in 2020 with a promise to force the wealthy to pay their “fair share” of taxes, his son Hunter was scrambling behind closed doors to clean up a trail of his own delinquent taxes before they became an election scandal, according to once-secret IRS memos made public recently by Congress.
IRS agents would soon discover that the future first son was continuing to allegedly misrepresent his income and deductions to the very accountant he had hired to help, the memos show.
The documents reviewed by Just the News show that Jeffrey Gelfound, an Edward White & Company tax accountant hired by Hunter Biden, was a cooperating witness in the IRS criminal probe of the first son and is likely to be a key witness if the younger Biden is charged with tax crimes by Special Counsel David Weiss.
Gelfound also could become a witness of interest to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee as it digs deeper into the Biden family finances as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry in Congress.
Buried in the mountain of 700 pages of IRS whistleblower documents released in September by the House Ways and Means Committee are interview reports, affidavits and case summary memos chronicling Hunter Biden’s efforts at the height of the 2020 presidential campaign to remedy his delinquent income taxes dating to 2014 and the income he made from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings.
Gelfound told agents the efforts in 2020 to pay off Hunter Biden tax debts became a priority because of fears the IRS and other tax authorities would place liens that would become public, a potential embarrassment for the Biden family.
"Yeah, if there was going to be media attention because they were going to lien," Gelfound told IRS agents in an April 2021 interview when asked whether erasing the tax debts had become prioritized.
In another later interview conducted by IRS agents in November 2021, Gelfound revealed that his firm signed an unusual representation letter with the younger Biden just days after the 2020 election, in which Hunter attested that the information that he provided was truthful. Gelfound told investigators that this was the first time he had ever seen a representation letter like it.
“Yeah, when would you typically sign the representation?” the IRS investigators asked Gelfound. “This is- any type of representation, it’s not standard,” Gelfound answered.
“When we typically prepare returns, there’s an engagement letter that’s different than this one,” Gelfound said, explaining to investigators why this representation letter was different. “[T]his is a first that I’ve seen and had a client sit down and sign a letter of this type,” he said.
You can read that interview transcript here:
File
T5-Exhibit-1E-Representation-Letter-Jeff-Gelfound-Interview.pdf
Hunter Biden was specifically caught by his accountant misrepresenting income from a company he formed with former Chinese energy tycoon Ye Jianming, according to the IRS memos. Agents believed concerns about the accuracy of the information that Hunter Biden was providing may have spurred the accounting firm to require him to sign such a letter, according to an affidavit submitted to the Ways and Means Committee by one of the whistleblowers, Joseph Ziegler.
File
A1-Affidavit-1-for-HWM-Committee-v08.29.2023-002 (1).pdf
In a later interview with IRS investigators, Gelfound told the agents that Hunter Biden originally represented payments from Hudson West III, one of the limited liability companies tied to Hunter Biden, as loans made to him personally. Gelfound dug deeper, determined to classify the payments properly in his accounting of the younger Biden’s taxes, the memos show.
After a review of the provisions of the LLC, he found that Hunter Biden was owed a retainer fee and compensation from the company, meaning that Hunter had falsely classified income as loans. Hudson West III was a joint venture established by Hunter Biden and CEFC associate Gongwen Dong.
Gelfound said Hunter Biden did not push back when he explained what he had found, accepting the accountant's explanation and agreeing to remedy the mistake. It appears that Hunter Biden was confused about why this income should be classified as income rather than a loan, according to Gelfound.
Biden’s confusion may have stemmed from the fact that his Chinese partners had previously provided him payments in the form of loan on at least two separate occasions, in what Congressional Republicans argue were part of a Biden Family influence peddling scheme.
The accounting firm's instinct to have Hunter Biden attest to the truthfulness of his information proved prescient. Gelfound later discovered, through his interviews with IRS investigators, that Hunter Biden misrepresented multiple tax deductions at the same time that Gelfound was helping to remedy Biden's delinquent returns, the memos allege.
Gelfound told investigators he was not aware that multiple payments Hunter Biden claimed as business deductions—including a $30,000 payment to Columbia University for his daughter, a payment to John Hancock for life insurance, and payments for his daughter’s rent—were, in fact, personal expenses, and therefore taxable, the memos show.
You can read the second interview memo here:
File
T8-Exhibit-1H-Loan-Claim-Jeff-Gelfound-Interview_Redacted (1).pdf

In an instance that Just the News previously reported, Hunter Biden also claimed deductions for payments to an “escort” and classified them as business expenses. When Gelfound was asked about these deductions, he told investigators that he was unaware of the true nature of the payments. Hunter Biden had verified that these escort payments were business expenses, according to Gelfound.
You can read Gelfound’s statements on the escort transactions in the interview here:
File
T6-Exhibit-1F-Gulnora-Deduction-Jeff-Gelfound-Interview.pdf

When Ziegler provided these documents to the House Ways and Means Committee, he explained how they would be used in a building the tax case to provide evidence that Hunter Biden willfully violated tax law.
For example, the representation letter “would have been included as evidence of willfulness and knowledge for the 2018 felony charges, which includes [tax evasion] and [false return] charges,” Ziegler wrote in his affidavit to the committee. Evidence of Hunter Biden’s misclassified payment from Hudson West III would have been used as evidence for similar charges for both the 2014 and 2018 tax years, he added.
You can read whistleblower Ziegler’s affidavit below:
File
A1-Affidavit-1-for-HWM-Committee-v08.29.2023-002 (1).pdf

However, despite the evidence collected by investigators, Hunter Biden has not been charged with any felony tax crimes. Two misdemeanor tax charges that were part of plea deal this summer with Weiss' office were withdrawn when a judge rejected what some called a "sweetheart" plea deal.
In testimony this summer, the IRS whistleblowers accused the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s office of allowing the statute of limitations to expire on Hunter Biden’s alleged tax crimes from before 2017. The statute of limitations on the tax violations uncovered by the IRS investigation for the 2014 and 2015 tax years expired in November 2022.
Ziegler and his supervisor Gary Shapley, another whistleblower and both Special Agents with long and distiguished careers, each told congressional investigators that the the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s office and the Justice Department delayed their investigation by, among other things, requiring prior approval for interviews, shutting down investigative steps like search warrants for Joe Biden’s Wilmington home, and leaving felonies out of proposed plea agreements.
The years of tax violations for which the statute of limitations expired last year included the bulk of payments from Hunter Biden’s work with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
“[Hunter Biden] directed to have a portion of his Burisma income paid back to himself personally as ‘loans’, even though Devon Archer had deducted these payments on the Rosemont Seneca Bohai tax return,” Ziegler wrote in his affidavit to Ways and Means. “[Hunter] had essentially loaned himself his own income from Burisma, failing to report this income from Burisma on his 2014 tax returns and failing to pay the taxes on this income.” In Spring of 2014, a Ukrainian oligarch placed Biden on the Burisma Board of Directors and agreed to pay him $1,000,000 per year.
Hunter Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Just the News.
House Republicans have stepped up their inquiry into President Biden and his son Hunter’s business dealings. On Wednesday, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R.-Ky., subpoenaed Hunter and James Biden as well as their business associate Rob Walker. Additionally, his committee sent out interview requests to Sara and Hallie Biden.
On Thursday, he followed up with additional subpoenas for Eric Schwerin—a longtime Hunter Biden business associate—and individuals involved in the sale of Hunter Biden’s artwork at the Bergès Art Gallery.
“The House Oversight Committee has followed the money and built a record of evidence revealing how Joe Biden knew, was involved, and benefited from his family’s influence peddling schemes. Now, the House Oversight Committee is going to bring in members of the Biden family and their associates to question them on this record of evidence,” Comer said.
The White House shot back. “Instead of using the power of Congress to pursue a partisan political smear campaign against the President and his family, extreme House Republicans should do their jobs," Special Assistant to the President Ian Sams said in a statement.

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