A special agent from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said that federal prosecutors originally agreed to bring felony tax charges against Hunter Biden, but other leaders reduced the charges to misdemeanors.
The information came from Joe Ziegler and his supervisor Gary Shapley in front of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
Zeigler noted that U.S. Attorney David Weiss struck a plea deal with Biden.
Under the agreement, Hunter Biden will see two misdemeanors in U.S. district court in Delaware and no jail time.
“If the Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss followed DOJ policy as he stated in his most recent letter, Hunter Biden should have been charged with a tax felony, and not only the tax misdemeanor charge,” Ziegler explained, adding that “We need to treat each taxpayer the same under the law.”
According to Shapley, search warrants were prepared in April 2020 but were put off until after the 2020 presidential election.
The warrants were ultimately never pursued.
Reporting from The Washington Times:
He also said prosecutors blocked the agents from pursuing tantalizing messages that implicated President Biden in business dealings with a Chinese operator. Mr. Shapley said they obtained WhatsApp messages from Hunter Biden in which he told Chinese energy executives he was discussing their business with his father. When the agents tried to follow up on that information, “prosecutors would not allow it.”
