Posted on 06/22/2023 3:51:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Newly released whistleblower documents reveal that federal prosecutors repeatedly interfered on Hunter Biden’s behalf during the probe into the younger Biden’s business dealings.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith on Thursday released five documents that include the testimonies of two IRS whistleblowers, as well as supplemental affidavits and memos detailing alleged efforts to politically interfere with the probe.
The whistleblowers testified that from 2014-2019, Hunter Biden personally received 8.3 Million Dollars from Ukraine, China, and Romania and didn’t pay taxes on the income, but the Biden Department of Justice attempted to block the IRS agents investigating the tax violations. In total, Hunter Biden and associates received $17.3 million from the three countries, according to the whistleblowers.
According to former IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley, federal prosecutors blocked two search warrants and refused to press more extensive criminal charges.
He alleged that career prosecutors originally intended to charge Hunter Biden with numerous tax violations dating back to 2014, but the sweeping indictment was thwarted by appointees of Joe Biden.
In the end, Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to just two federal misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his taxes, and was spared prison time.
“Hunter Biden profited off his father’s name,” Rep. Smith tweeted Thursday. “He didn’t report millions of dollars in income from foreign sources. Any ordinary American caught doing that would have faced severe consequences.”
The whistleblowers’ testimony also confirms that the government had evidence that Joe Biden met with his son’s Chinese business partners.
Both whistleblowers faced retaliation for telling the truth.
“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 told lawmakers.
By June of 2020, the whistleblowers said it was apparent that career prosecutors were “slow-walking” the investigation.
Shapley testified that federal prosecutors blocked one search warrant seeking corporate documents from Hunter Biden’s storage locker and another search warrant for Joe Biden’s Delaware residence where Hunter Biden was living at the time.
According to the whistleblower, Leslie Wolf, assistant U.S. Attorney working on the case in Delaware, rejected the warrant for Joe Biden’s home in December 2020, out of concern for “the optics.”
“The decision was whether the juice was worth the squeeze And also a statement made here was that she said that, well, we had to consider the optics of doing a search warrant on, you know, Hunter Biden’s residence and/or the guest house of President Biden,” he recounted. “She further states about the guest house of Joe Biden that there was no way we’d get that approved,” he added.
Later, when agents sought a search warrant for Hunter Biden’s storage locker, prosecutors tipped off Biden’s legal team.
Shapley said these decisions were unprecedented in his many years as an IRS agent.
“So it was off the table. And that was even after the election. So there’s many things. Any other case I ever worked, if they were like there’s a storage unit with documents from the business and personal documents in relation to the years under investigation — the risk was zero, because it’s on a storage unit, it’s not on a residence — there’s no prosecutor I’ve ever worked with that wouldn’t say, go get those documents,” he added.
Shapley also told lawmakers that prosecutors had evidence that Joe Biden had personally met with officials from CEFC, the Chinese energy firm that hired Hunter to represent its interests in the United States. He described an interview that family associate Rob Walker gave the FBI.
“Walker went on to describe an instance in which the former Vice President showed up at a CEFC meeting. Walker said: “We were at the Four Seasons and we were having lunch and he stopped in, just said hello to everybody. I don’t even think he drank water. I think Hunter Biden said, ‘I may be trying to start a company or try to do something with these guys and could you?’ And I think he was like, if I’m around and he’d show up,” he recounted.
“The FBI agent asked: “So you definitely got the feeling that that was orchestrated by Hunter Biden to have like an appearance by his dad at that meeting just to kind of bolster your chances at making a deal work out? Walker answered: “Sure.” The FBI agent continued: “Any times when he was in office, or did you hear Hunter Biden say that he was setting up a meeting with his dad with them while dad was still in office?”
Walker answered: “Yes.”
Joe Biden was apparently in the room when Hunter sent a WhatsApp message to Chinese businessman Henry Zhao demanding to know why Zhao had not held up his side of an undisclosed deal, according to a newly released document.
An August 2020 search warrant uncovered Hunter’s threatening text message to Zhao, in which he told the businessman to resolve the problem immediately or he, then-Vice President Biden and “everyone he knows” would make him regret it.
“Investigators were not allowed to verify the information,” Smith said Thursday.
The whistleblowers’ testimony confirmed earlier reporting from Just the News regarding Hunter Biden tax case.
1) The DOJ allowed the statute of limitations to expire on alleged tax crimes dating from before 2017 involving hundreds of thousands of dollars more in undeclared income, including some from foreign firms such as Ukrainian gas firm Burisma.2) The IRS criminal investigation team never learned that the FBI had recovered emails from Hunter’s laptop showing that the first son was aware by 2017 that he had not paid taxes on at least $400,000 in income from Burisma from 2014.
3) Neither the IRS nor the FBI agents investigating Biden ever saw the confidential human source information the FBI received and documented in a form FD-1023 outlining an alleged bribery deal in which a Burisma executive paid $5 million each to Hunter and another Biden family member.
Both Shapley and his unnamed subordinate provided statements that neither they, nor anyone of whom they were aware working on the case ever received the information relating to that alleged scheme and consequently never explored the matter. An affidavit from Shapley references comments from former Attorney General William Barr, who has publicly stated that he referred the information to an ongoing investigation in Delaware.
Barr spoke to the Federalist in early June, during which he refuted claims from Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin that he had shut down the investigation into the bribery allegation.
“It’s not true. It wasn’t closed down,” he said. “On the contrary, it was sent to Delaware for further investigation.”
On Twitter, Rep. Smith pointed out that “there were concerns the DOJ wouldn’t be an impartial investigator” in the Hunter Biden case after his father was sworn in as President, but Attorney General Merrick Garland ignored those concerns and refused to appoint a special prosecutor.
“Instead, AG Garland promised the American people in public testimony the prosecutor handling Hunter Biden’s case, U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss, could bring charges against Hunter Biden outside of Delaware,” Smith wrote.
“Whistleblower testimony shows Garland’s testimony was inaccurate,” the congressman said. “For almost a year, IRS investigators and Weiss tried to advance the investigation, including bringing charges against Hunter Biden. Each time, he was denied by a Biden DOJ appointee.”
Whistleblower testimony shows Garland’s testimony was inaccurate.
For almost a year, IRS investigators and Weiss tried to advance the investigation, including bringing charges against Hunter Biden.
Each time, he was denied by a Biden DOJ appointee. pic.twitter.com/Hllh6GIzEM
— Rep. Jason Smith (@RepJasonSmith) June 22, 2023
During a news conference Thursday, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) said justice can’t be “tipped in the favor” of wealthy and politically connected individuals.
“Only the Ways and Means Committee has the ability to report this information legally to the full House of Representatives and thereby make it known to the American public,” he said. “Doing so is an important step in preventing future misconduct, encouraging other whistleblowers to come forward and considering possible future legislative reforms.”
Rep. Jason Smith: Whistleblowers say Biden's DOJ directly interfered in the Hunter Biden criminal investigation — and even stopped a probe into "a WhatsApp message in which Hunter Biden demands payment from Chinese officials, noting that his father is in the room." pic.twitter.com/ddMa4OJzLT
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 22, 2023
A federal judge still needs to sign off on “sweetheart” plea bargain prosecutors brokered with Hunter Biden’s legal team.
U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika of the District of Delaware set a court date of July 26 for Biden to make his initial court appearance related to the plea deal
Noreika, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Donald Trump, will have the power to either approve or reject the plea agreement.
Entirely predictable
Hunter told the guy by whatsapp message that his father is sitting next to him and he better make sure what he wants get done TONIGHT..so when is Biden and his family full of disgusting goons gonna get perp walked..oh yeah almost forgot LOL they are Dems moving on
Wonder how long until Joe is thrown overboard and Gavin steps in to save the day?
If I heard the radio right on the way home from work, they said the IRS wanted 11 total charges, on the tax evasion issue alone, many of which were felonies.
His sweetheart deal from the DOJ reduced all this to 1 misdemeanor on tax evasion.
Why isn’t Trump calling for Biden’s, or at least Garland’s, impeachment every day? Where is Trump’s hand picked Speaker McCarthy, on the TWO different articles of impeachment already put forth for a vote in the House?
At least the IRS tried...
Couple it with the fact that he divulged classified information about the chinese balloon that was shot down to his campaign donors this past Tuesday - it was part of the talk where he called Xi a “dictator”...pot calling the kettle black
Well, of course they did. Foolish to think otherwise.
America is gone.
They impeached Trump early, and often. Of all people Trump should be calling for Biden’s impeachmentS plural. For such tough talker he sure is quiet.
UPenn Can’t Explain Mystery Donation From Chinese Company
Washington Free Bacon ^ | AUGUST 3, 2020 | Alana Goodman
Posted on 8/5/2020, 4:44:03 PM by Rebelbase
The University of Pennsylvania pocketed a $3 million donation last year from a mysterious Hong Kong shell company that is owned by a Shanghai businessman with deep ties to Chinese government officials.
The donation from Xu Xeuqing, who has no apparent connection to the University of Pennsylvania and was previously embroiled in a Shanghai public corruption scandal, raises questions about the true source of the money. Documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show Xeuqing has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
China has poured money into American universities in recent years, in part to buy influence on campuses, experts say. The donation comes as federal prosecutors have increased scrutiny on the Chinese government’s influence-buying and espionage operations at American universities.
“Unequivocally they’re using the money they’re providing the universities to garner influence there,” said Ben Freeman, the director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy. “It’s not the sole motive, but it’s one of a variety of motives.”
Foreign money has poured into the school over the past few years with a significant portion coming from China. The Ivy League school received $61 million in gifts and contracts from China between March 2017 and the end of 2019; over the previous four year period, it took in just $19 million from Chinese donors.
The University of Pennsylvania received the $3 million in question from a Hong Kong-based company called “Nice Famous Corporation Limited,” according to financial disclosures.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
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Lawsuit: DOJ Concealing Records of Biden Family Payoffs with China and Russia
<><>In June 2020, SS records showed that, for the first 5 1/2 years of the Obama/Biden admin,
<><>Hunter Biden traveled extensively while receiving a tax paid Secret Service protective detail.
<><>During that time period, Hunter Biden took 411 separate domestic and international flights,
<><>he went to 29 different foreign countries.
<><>Hunter visited China five times.
<><>Judicial Watch is suing DHS for SS records on Hunter Biden’s travel and security costs,
<><>>suing the State Dept for messages sent thru the SMART system that mention Hunter Biden.
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The voluminous report of Hunters 459 crimes sent to Congress reviewed his laptop’s
<><>emails, videos, calendar items, photographs, phone records, financial documents, and more,
<><>provided context and explanation,
<><>serves as a “Rosetta Stone of crime under the patina of ‘the Delaware Way,’
<><>WRT a convoluted network of people leading the charge for global governance,
<><>including shell companies and middlemen
Crimes Hunter Biden allegedly committed include
<><>serving as an agent for foreign entities without disclosing it,
<><>tax fraud,
<><>falsifying business documents
<><>prostitution,
<><>non-consensual pornography,
<><>and distribution of narcotics.Lawsuit: DOJ Concealing Records of Biden Family Payoffs with China and Russia
<><>In June 2020, SS records showed that, for the first 5 1/2 years of the Obama/Biden admin,
<><>Hunter Biden traveled extensively while receiving a tax paid Secret Service protective detail.
<><>During that time period, Hunter Biden took 411 separate domestic and international flights,
<><>he went to 29 different foreign countries.
<><>Hunter visited China five times.
<><>Judicial Watch is suing DHS for SS records on Hunter Biden’s travel and security costs,
<><>>suing the State Dept for messages sent thru the SMART system that mention Hunter Biden.
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The voluminous report of Hunters 459 crimes sent to Congress reviewed his laptop’s
<><>emails, videos, calendar items, photographs, phone records, financial documents, and more,
<><>provided context and explanation,
<><>serves as a “Rosetta Stone of crime under the patina of ‘the Delaware Way,’
<><>WRT a convoluted network of people leading the charge for global governance,
<><>including shell companies and middlemen
Salon.com
DOJ looking into why Hunter Biden was financially tied to a Chinese energy company
New evidence indicates Hunter got $4.8M from CEFC China Energy
By KELLY MCCLURE
Nights & Weekends Editor
PUBLISHED MARCH 30, 2022 6:34PM (EDT)
The investigation into Hunter Biden’s financial dealings is ramping up, with potentially condemning new evidence discovered that ties President Biden’s son to a Chinese energy conglomerate named CEFC China Energy.
In a review published by The Washington Post today they detail that over the course of 14-months CEFC China Energy paid $4.8 million “to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and his uncle.” Evidence to this fact was landed upon with the use of government records, court documents, newly available bank statements and emails pulled from a copy of a hard drive from a laptop believed to have once belonged to Hunter Biden, according to The Washington Post.
Related: Trump asks Putin for Biden dirt; Russian state TV calls to “again help our partner Trump”
Although the new evidence does not indicate that President Biden was personally involved in these CEFC dealings, or that he benefitted from them in any way, there is evidence that Hunter Biden leveraged his father’s influence, and contacts President Biden has made over the years, for his own financial gain.
Among the newly discovered materials is a $1 million legal retainer signed by Hunter Biden for the representation of a CEFC official named Patrick Ho “who would later be charged in the United States in connection with a multimillion-dollar scheme to bribe leaders from Chad and Uganda,” according to The Washington Post.
Hunter Biden has been under federal tax investigation since 2018, specifically in relation to income obtained from business deals with China, but nothing solid has come from it until around 2020.
Along with the large sum of money received from CEFC, evidence has revealed that Hunter Biden was also gifted a 2.8-carat diamond from Chinese energy tycoon Ye Jianming. The diamond, which Hunter claimed was only worth around $10,000, but is actually valued at more along the lines of $80K, was brought up in the divorce proceedings between Hunter and ex-wife Kathleen Buhle, according to The New Yorker.
The diamond was reportedly given to Hunter in 2017 when Hunter met with Jianming in Miami hoping to get his donation to the World Food Program USA nonprofit that Hunter was a board member of. During a dinner that took place on that trip, Hunter offered to use his contacts to nail down investment opportunities for CEFC China Energy and Jianming was so pleased with this, according to The New Yorker, he sent the diamond to Hunter’s hotel room as a gift of appreciation.
“I knew it wasn’t a good idea to take it. I just felt like it was weird,” Hunter said to The New Yorker, claiming to have handed it off to an associate.
Read more:
DOJ purging all Trump-appointed U.S. attorneys — except the one investigating Hunter Biden
Barr rejects Trump’s demand for special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden on his way out
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WHYY-PBS reported U of Penn made a $100M contribution to the Phila School District.
Is the U of Penn’s donation dirty Chinese money?
is Penn getting rid of evidence to save Biden’s sorry ***?
Philly’s other big universities stay silent (Shakedown City?)
WHYY.com / / FR Posted on 12/6/2020 by Kid Shelleen
Two weeks after the U of Pennsylvania made a gargantuan $100 million contribution to the School District of Philadelphia, it’s unlikely the cash infusion will inspire copycat donations from major higher education peers in the city. When Ivy League Penn made its announcement, City Council member Helen Gym and others voiced hope that other universities with large landholdings, like Temple or Drexel, might also pony up. “I certainly hope that some of our strongest civic institutions can see beyond their individual acts of charity and generosity,” “When universities and our major nonprofits, who have long been invested in education and public health, unite on a mission to invest in our schools, we send a clear message to Harrisburg and to Washington, D.C. that we are invested in our future.” (Excerpt) Read more at whyy.org ...
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Biden Center Under Investigation for Illegal Donations From China
DB Daily Update | David Blackmon / FR Posted on 5/25/2020, 9:19:56 AM by EyesOfTX
If the label says “Biden,” it was definitely influenced by China. – John Solomon at JustTheNews.com is reporting that The National Legal and Policy Center has asked the U.S. Department of Education to investigate its findings that the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) has over the past several years accepted more than $22 million in anonymous China-originated donations to its Biden Center and failed to properly disclose the contributions.
From Solomon’s report: The complaint, filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, says that over the past three years, the university has (admitted to accepting around) $22 million in anonymous funding from Chinese sources. That’s out of a total of more than $70 million from Chinese donors during that time, the NLPC said.
Those significant funds, including the anonymous amounts, rolled in after the Biden Center was announced in early 2017 and launched in February 2018. The center is located in downtown Washington, D.C. Federal records show that the University of Pennsylvania has received significant donations from Communist China since the opening of the Biden Center.
One 2018 donation alone totals $14.5 million; it is listed as “anonymous” in federal records. The NLPC alleges the university may have violated federal law in accepting those anonymous monetary donations from Communist China. The Higher Education Act mandates schools report the national origins of any donations above $250,000 although not necessarily the individual names of donors themselves. [End]
This serves as just one more reminder that Biden, his son (and his brother) have long been in the pockets of Communist Chinese interests. The stark reality facing our country today is that of the gains President Donald Trump has made through the sheer force of his will in terms of U.S./China relations and trade policy will be immediately reversed the day after Biden assumes office.
KEEP IN MIND.....virtually all U.S. antibiotics and PPE are sourced through China at some point along their supply chains....... There are trillions of dollars at stake, and Creepy Uncle Joe wants to ensure his family continues to get its fair share out of Communist China.
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University of Penn that housed Biden Center pressed
to end FBI China spy probe after big Beijing donations
1/12/2023, 11:38:38 AM · by george76 · 14 replies
Just the News. ^ | January 12, 2023 | John Solomon and Nick Givas
University of Pennsylvania, which hosted the Penn Biden Center where classified documents were found in November, received $47.7 million from China in the three years when Biden was affiliated with it. ...
The University of Pennsylvania, the Ivy League institution which collected tens of millions of dollars from China while paying Joe Biden and hosting his foreign policy think tank, successfully pressured the Biden Justice Department to end an FBI counterespionage program targeting Beijing’s increasing influence within U.S. academia.
Attorney General Merrick Garland shut down the FBI’s so-called China initiative in February 2022 shortly after more than 160 members of...
UPDATE....... AFTER THE CHINESE TAINT SURFACED, PENN SUDDENLY GAVE AWAY $100 MILLION TO PA PUBLIC SCHOOLS....
WAS THIS DIRTY CHINESE MONEY PENN DESPERATELY NEEDED OFF THE BOOKS TO SAVE. BIDENS FILTHY *SS?
Whoda ever thought that there would be more honest people in the IRS than the FBI? Lol.
“For such tough talker he sure is quiet.”
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But why bother? The lame, pathetic and useless Republicans won’t listen or do anything about it.
What the hell do you want him to do? Especially when you have clowns like Romney in the Senate just yesterday saying talk of impeachment against Biden is absurd. Trump has called for Biden’s impeachment. Why don’t you call Romney and the Turtles office and demand THEY do something.
2020 was a crucial year for the Biden Administration.
Sounds like obstruction of justice to me.
Will anything come of it? Not holding my breath.
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He just wants to slam Trump all day every day.
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