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Attorney General Merrick Garland is the previously unidentified official who, according to an IRS whistleblower, misled Congress about the Justice Department’s probe into Hunter Biden, a report alleged Friday. Garland refused to name a special counsel in Hunter’s tax investigation to provide a degree of separation between President Joe Biden and his Justice Department. Garland has repeatedly testified before Congress that U.S. Attorney David Weiss has the “full authority” to make a criminal referral against Hunter without the permission of the Justice Department. Garland noted he would personally have to “authorize” any charges. “There will not be interference of any...

Taxman probes foreign funds invested here April 15, 2005 ¤Ñ Korean tax authorities are investigating foreign funds, including U.S.-based Lone Star Funds and Carlyle Group, sources said yesterday. "I will neither confirm nor deny," Han Sang-yool, chief of the National Tax Service's investigative division, said yesterday. But he added, "It is the National Tax Service's duty and responsibility to examine whether international capital, as well as domestic capital, has made unfair profits through irregularities." The investigation follows growing public suspicion about foreign stock investors, and increasing concerns in Korea that foreign capital is making huge tax-free profits by investing in...