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Days after Joe Biden became president, his tax-paid
DOJ sought briefing on Hunter criminal case, memos show
Just The News ^ | October 4, 2023 | By Steven Richards and John Solomon
Posted on 10/5/2023, 10:42:21 AM by Red Badger

A mere 16 days after Joe Biden assumed the presidency, top officials in his tax paid Justice Department raised suspicion 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 Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ office (now Hunter’s special prosecutor) and 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.

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.

File ShapleyZieglerEmailsDOJSportsmanBriefing2-5-21.pdf

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 Biden 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.

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James Biden’s Role In The Hunter Biden Access-For-Hire
influence-peddling schemes Shows It Was A Family Affair
The Federalist ^ | 10/4/23 | ELLE PURNELL
Posted on 10/4/2023, 7:15:23 PM by CFW

As the Biden family’s corruption scandals tumble out into the open, corporate media badly want you to think the only story here is about Hunter Biden, a struggling drug addict who may have made some unwise decisions while grieving the loss of his brother.

The more evidence — from whistleblower testimony to documentation — of President Joe Biden’s involvement arises, the more frantically they shout “no evidence!” and insist the elder Biden was only involved to the extent that he loves his son and talks with his wealthy foreign friends about the weather.

But setting aside the evidence of Joe Biden’s involvement in the access-for-sale scheme — of which there is an abundance — there’s another central figure in the operation. The participation of James Biden, Hunter’s uncle and Joe’s brother, shows just how much of a family affair the scandal is, with Joe Biden, the family’s “only asset,” at the top.

So what exactly do we know about James Biden’s involvement?

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James, his wife Sara, and Hunter went on a $101,291 spending spree with credit cards opened by Hunter and Kevin Dong, who “served as ‘Chairman Ye[’s] CEFC emissary’ in the United States.” The three Bidens purchased “extravagant items, including airline tickets and multiple items at Apple Inc. stores, pharmacies, hotels and restaurants.”

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Despite telling the IRS “that he recalled not being involved with anything beyond 2017,” James Biden sent a message to Hunter in February 2018 that he was “in a near panic” because “we got nothing in Feb! … Did K [likely Kevin Dong] cut us off in Feb? I thought you had said that $ were wired into your account , 82.5 was on its way. We can’t find any record that was sent. Did I miss something?”

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...

But there is no evidence connecting any of the corruption to Joe Biden, right? That’s what the left wants you to believe. They want you to believe access to Joe was being sold without his knowledge. And, that he really thought he was making those phone calls to Hunter during meetings because Hunter wanted to know the weather forecast for D.C. and Delaware.

Joe Biden had (cough) “no knowledge” of where the money for his family was originating from and how all his purchases, expenses, and home repairs were being financed. And, none of his U.S. policy promotions and decisions as VP (or Obama’s — whose name is being kept out of this corruption scandal) were based on those financial “contributions” to his family’s wealth. Makes perfect sense.

Or, at least it does if you are a democrat.