House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) sent a letter to the Department of Justice requesting information about whether the DOJ is “upholding the rights of victims who were sexually exploited” by Hunter Biden.
The pair sent a similar letter to the department in July, requesting “information regarding DOJ’s handling of victims’ rights” in the Hunter Biden investigation and a staff-level briefing on the fund. The DOJ did not respond to their letter by the deadline despite confirming receipt of the letter.
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“It is unclear to the Committee as to why you both made the alarming decision to ignore our original request,” the members wrote. “This conduct is unprofessional and concerning given your leadership roles at DOJ. Considering the seriousness of this obstructive behavior, we request information as to whether anyone advised you not to respond to our inquiry, including any Department employee at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware, DOJ Office of Legislative Affairs (OLA), Main Justice, or the White House.”
In addition to requesting if anyone told the DOJ not to respond to their previous inquiry, they are also reupping their request for the same information.
The two are asking the Department of Justice, specifically Hilary Axam, the department’s national human trafficking coordinator, and Kristina Rose, the director of the Office for Victims of Crime, to give them a staff-level briefing on the Crime Victims Fund, which is derived from forfeited assets and given to federal, state, and tribal victim assistance programs in the form of “formula grants, discretionary grants, and set-asides according to a carefully established annual allocation process.”
Testimony from Joseph Ziegler, an IRS whistleblower, also alleged that the DOJ compiled a list of women Hunter Biden appeared to pay for sex relating to the investigation into Mann Act violations.
“There were some flying people across state lines, paying for their travel, paying for their hotels. They were what we call Mann Act violations,” he told the House Ways and Means Committee.
Testimony from Ziegler also alleged that Hunter Biden disguised payments to sex workers and a sex club payment as tax-deductible expenses.
Ziegler also said in the hearing before the House Oversight Committee that there were a number of deductions on Hunter Biden’s tax forms that appeared to be for sex workers or sex clubs and were not legitimate tax deductions.
“There were deductions for what we believe to be escorts, and then that $10,000 golf club membership, yes, that was not a golf club membership; that was for a sex club payment,” Ziegler said.
Comer and Greene are now asking the department to provide information regarding who compiled the list of alleged victims, if anyone from the U.S. Attorney for Deleware’s office contacted the DOJ about potential victim issues in the investigation, and if the DOJ plans to confer with victims regarding the next steps to be taken.
“These women may be victims under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act and may also be afforded mandatory restitution pursuant to the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act,” the letter reads. “In light of DOJ’s refusal to communicate in a meaningful way with the Committee, we have great skepticism that DOJ has been adequately communicating with crime victims.”
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They also ask for the names of anyone who may have instructed the recipients of the July 25 letter not to respond to the requests in the letter.
The committee has given the DOJ a deadline of Sept. 22.
