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As the House Oversight Committee prepares to depose Hunter Biden next month, members of the committee are interested in the many ways that Joe Biden could have received benefits from his son’s business dealings, in addition to the payments the committee traced from Chinese sources to Biden’s bank accounts. GOP Representative Eric Burlison, who sits on the House Oversight Committee, said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show that documents he and the committee have reviewed indicate that there may be yet more methods that Hunter Biden used to pass benefits to his father both while he was...

The FBI agent in charge of the investigative team working on the Hunter Biden case gave testimony to Congress that the media claimed undermined the account of IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley. Yet new documents from the now-public trove that IRS whistleblowers disclosed to the House Ways and Means Committee lend credibility to Shapley’s testimony and call into question what the FBI agent remembered about the meeting. [snip] Yet, much of what Sobocinski remembered about the meeting is disputed by contemporaneous documents and other testimony. Sobocinski recalled that the meeting was scheduled because of a leak to the media about the...

Hunter Biden is suing the Internal Revenue Service, arguing whistleblower testimony from career agents was meant to embarrass him and was a violation of his privacy. "President Biden’s son Hunter Biden filed a lawsuit Monday against the Internal Revenue Service, charging that when agents who were investigating him told Congress and news reporters about their concerns that the case was not being managed properly, they violated his privacy rights as a taxpayer," the Washington Post reports. "Biden charges in the lawsuit that when two IRS agents went to Congress and news organizations complaining of alleged mishandling of the investigation by...