IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley isn’t backing down from claims that United States Attorney David Weiss was blocked from pursuing charges on various matters against President Joe Biden‘s son, Hunter.
Shapley reiterated that both Weiss and Attorney General Merrick Garland’s claims that the U.S. Attorney had the power to bring whatever charges he wanted did not appear to be true.
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“I documented exactly what happened. And it doesn’t seem to match what the attorney general or the U.S. attorney are saying today,” Shapley told CBS News.
He also told the outlet that a senior prosecutor working for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Delaware blocked Shapley’s efforts to investigate further any connections that involved “dad” or “the big guy.”
“I would say that they limited certain investigative leads that could have potentially provided information on the president of the United States,” Shapley told CBS News.
Garland said last week at a press conference that Weiss was allowed to “make a decision to prosecute any way in which he wanted to,” echoing claims Weiss made in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee earlier this month when he said he had “ultimate authority” for the investigation.
“As I said at the outset, Mr. Weiss, who was appointed by President Trump as the U.S. Attorney in Delaware and who was assigned this matter in the previous administration, would be permitted to continue his investigation and to make a decision to prosecute any way in which he wanted to, and in any district in which he wanted to,” Garland said.
“I don’t know how it would be possible for anybody to block him from bringing a prosecution given that he ever has this authority,” he added.
In an interview with Fox News, Shapley again said that Weiss admitted to him that he did not have full control over the investigation.
“Not only do I remember it crystal clear, but I documented it,” Shapley told Fox News.
Shapley also claimed in the interview that officials within the Justice Department put attempts to search several locations related to Biden “on the back burner.”
“Between April and June 2020, we drafted an affidavit to execute a search warrant at a couple different locations, and the prosecutors at the time stated that probable cause had been achieved, but as we moved closer to the election, it just seemed like they kept putting it on the back burner, and they didn’t allow us to do that search warrant, even though the legal requirements to execute the search warrant were met,” Shapley said.
Testimony from IRS whistleblowers, released last week by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO), alleges that Joe Biden had more of a role in Hunter Biden’s business dealings than previously reported. The whistleblowers allege a Hunter Biden business associate told the FBI that Joe Biden had stopped by at least one China-related business meeting at Hunter Biden’s apparent request.
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Other accusations by the whistleblowers included a search warrant of Joe Biden’s guest house being prevented due to “optics” and the assistant U.S. attorney in the Delaware federal prosecutor’s office telling investigators, “Don’t ask about the big guy.”
Last week it was announced that Hunter Biden would enter a plea deal related to two charges regarding failure to pay federal income tax. His father, Joe Biden, denied lying about speaking with Hunter about business dealings on Monday.
