The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) investigated allegations that Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign may have been influenced by “campaign finance criminal violations,” according to a memo.
A lawyer was allowed to help pay off Hunter Biden’s tax debts, the investigation found.
The lawyer is reportedly Kevin Morris, who is involved in the entertainment industry.
A memo written by IRS Supervisory Criminal Investigative Agent Gary Shapley is the source of the information, where Shapley alleged that Biden prosecutor Lesley Wolf did not want agents to look into the campaign finance case.
“This investigation has been hampered and slowed by claims of potential election meddling,” Shapley wrote in the memo. “Through interviews and review of evidence obtained, it appears there may be campaign finance criminal violations.”
“AUSA Wolf stated on the last prosecution team meeting that she did not want any of the agents to look into the allegation. She cited a need to focus on the 2014 tax year, that we could not yet prove an allegation beyond a reasonable doubt, and that she does not want to include their Public Integrity Unit because they would take authority away from her. We do not agree with her obstruction on this matter,” the memo explained.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) told Just the News, “We’re just getting into this issue and the concerns. But it wouldn’t surprise me if they were told to stand down because remember this investigation over a five-year timeframe was slow-walked.”
“This is something that I think is a concern, because, you know, you had this individual come in and cover Hunter Biden’s tax liability,” Jordan added. “That’s kind of interesting. And then, was in fact that a contribution to Mr. Biden’s campaign when he ran for president?”
Reporting from Just the News:
One of [Shapley's] subordinates, IRS Agent Joseph Ziegler, also referred to an effort to block an investigation into the Biden campaign during his transcribed interview to the House Ways and Means Committee this summer. He said agents learned about the allegations after the 2020 election but ran into opposition from prosecutors. Ziegler also provided the information to Congress under the protections of whistleblower laws, and lawmakers voted the information to be public. ... House investigators also believe retired FBI Special Agent Timothy Thibault, the former No. 2 official in the bureau’s Washington field office, also may have been referring to the campaign finance inquiry in a transcribed interview he gave last week to the House Judiciary Committee. ... In his transcribed interview, Shapley described the general theory of the newly-disclosed campaign finance allegations as relating to the payment of Hunter Biden's significant tax debts, which reportedly totaled more than $2 million just to the IRS and were extinguished by a third-party by October 2021, according to a document filed by prosecutors in the now-scuttled plea deal between Hunter Biden and prosecutors in Delaware.
