FBI, IRS officials subpoenaed to testify about political interference in Hunter Biden tax crimes probe: Republicans step up probe after accusing Biden DOJ of ‘blocking’
FBI and IRS agents who participated in a meeting with now special counsel David Weiss when he allegedly claimed he was barred from bringing charges against Hunter Biden for tax crimes have now been hit with a slap in the face subpoenas.
The Republican-led House Judiciary and Ways and Means Committees subpoenaed Michael Batdorf, IRS Director of Field Operations, Darrell Waldon, IRS Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Sobocinski, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI and Ryeshia Holley, Deputy Special Agent of the FBI in Charge to come into testimony.
Presidents Jim Jordan and Jason Smith said they believe the individuals were aware of an October 7, 2022 meeting in which Weiss, a U.S. attorney from Delaware, allegedly said “he’s not the person who decides whether charges are laid”.
This remark was recounted by IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley. Shapley said he raised his concerns at that meeting and two weeks later the IRS was written off the case entirely.
FBI and IRS agents who participated in a meeting with now special counsel David Weiss when he allegedly claimed he was barred from bringing charges against Hunter Biden for tax crimes have now been hit with a slap in the face subpoenas
Presidents Jim Jordan and Jason Smith said they believe the individuals were aware of an October 7, 2022 meeting in which Weiss, a U.S. attorney from Delaware, allegedly said “he’s not the person who decides whether charges are brought”.
Attorney General Merrick Garland strenuously denied that Hunter Biden’s investigation was subject to any outside influence and insisted that Weiss, a Trump appointee, had ultimate charging power.
Weiss has since been named special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation, giving him the power to file charges in any jurisdiction without the permission of the U.S. Attorney for that district.
Shapley claimed that at the October 7, 2022 meeting, Weiss said he was blocked by Democratic appointees in Washington, D.C. and California from bringing charges in those places.
But in a July letter, Weiss said he “has never been denied the power to sue in any jurisdiction.”
Weiss did not deny that the DC and California offices did not favor bringing charges in their jurisdiction, but said if he believed the charges were justified, he could have brought them.
Weiss was appointed to the Delaware district attorney’s office in 2018 by Trump and left in place by the Biden administration to avoid a conflict of interest.
The Hunter Biden investigation by this office began in 2018 and resulted in two tax evasion charges and a firearms charge — and a now lapsed plea deal that exploded when Hunter was told that he could still be indicted for other crimes in the future.
