This is all that matters to them.
Posted on 07/04/2023 1:22:25 PM PDT by Libloather
Lawyers are questioning whether the Delaware attorney's office kicked their most experienced prosecutors off the Hunter Biden case – just before they filed minor charges against the president's son.
Whistleblowers who ran the IRS criminal probe into Hunter for five years told Congress about their travails with veteran Delaware prosecutors Lesley Wolf, Shawn Weede, and Shannon Hanson.
But in a letter to a federal judge last week announcing the charges against Hunter, Delaware US Attorney David Weiss listed three different prosecutors who have apparently had no previous involvement in the case – leading to questions of a last-minute overhaul by the Delaware DoJ.
Under Weiss's signature, the June 20 letter lists Assistant US Attorneys Leo Wise, Derek Hines, and Benjamin Wallace.
Te office has been criticized for only filing 'slap-on-the-wrist' charges against the First Son, two cases of willful failure to pay tax and a firearms charge for which he will take pre-trial diversion.
A lawyer for IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley, who ran the agency's five-year criminal probe into the First Son, told DailyMail.com: 'None of the three were involved in the underlying investigation during Gary's tenure, to my knowledge.'
One of the prosecutors listed on Weiss's letter, Assistant US Attorney (AUSA) Ben Wallace, only joined the Delaware office in March this year.
On Monday DailyMail.com revealed that another, Derek Hines, has a potential conflict having worked from 2013 to 2015 as 'Special Counsel' to one of Hunter's business partners, ex-FBI director Louis Freeh.
And AUSA Leo Wise was drafted to the Delaware office after being demoted from Chief of the Public Corruption and Fraud Unit at the Maryland US Attorney's Office to a mere line prosecutor in the same unit in March, the Baltimore Sun reported.
Shapley, an IRS Criminal Supervisory Special Agent, and his subordinate...
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Do wild Ursidae drop stool in the groves?
Lawfare is also when the democrats do not apply the law to their own.
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