House GOP Chairmen Subpoena IRS, FBI Officials for Info About Meeting With Hunter Biden Prosecutor
“Americans deserve to know the truth, especially now that Attorney General Garland has appointed as special counsel the same U.S. Attorney who oversaw Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal and botched the investigation into his alleged tax crimes.”
House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan issued subpoenas to IRS and DOJ officials they believe have knowledge about a meeting on October 7, 2022, with now-Special Counsel David Weiss.
The men wrote in a statement:
“Our Committees, along with the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, have sought these interviews since IRS whistleblowers came forward with concerning allegations of political interference in the investigation into Hunter Biden’s foreign influence peddling and tax evasion. Unfortunately, the Biden Administration has consistently stonewalled Congress. Our duty is to follow the facts wherever they may lead, and our subpoenas compelling testimony from Biden Administration officials are crucial to understanding how the President’s son received special treatment from federal prosecutors and who was the ultimate decision maker in the case. Americans deserve to know the truth, especially now that Attorney General Garland has appointed as special counsel the same U.S. Attorney who oversaw Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal and botched the investigation into his alleged tax crimes.”
They sent the subpoenas to:
- Michael T. Batdorf, IRS Director of Field Operations
- Darrell J. Waldon, IRS Special Agent in Charge
- Thomas J. Sobocinski, FBI Special Agent in Charge
- Ryeshia Holley, FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge
Sobocinski and Holley are located in the FBI’s Baltimore Field Office.
At the meeting, Weiss allegedly said “he was prevented from bringing charges against President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, for tax crimes.”
The DOJ and IRS have not complied with requests to hand over the transcripts from the interviews.
A whistleblower testified that Weiss, who served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, said during the October meeting that he could not be the person to decide whether to charge Hunter. He insisted “that in multiple instances his efforts to bring charges in multiple jurisdictions were denied.”
However, AG Merrick Garland told, “Congress that Weiss had all the authority necessary to pursue charges and Mr. Weiss told Congress that he had ‘ultimate’ authority over the case.”
The sweetheart plea deal fell apart since it included blanket immunity for any possible future prosecution of Hunter.
Then Garland made Weiss the special counsel after the sweetheart plea deal with Hunter fell apart because that is supposedly the only avenue to prosecute the case despite Garland and Weiss admitting the latter had ultimate authority.
Jordan and Smith find it suspicious that Garland would appoint a special counsel and the timing “also comes after whistleblowers have raised serious and unchallenged allegations of impropriety in the investigation of Hunter Biden.”
Smith and Jordan told Batdorf and Waldon why they received the subpoena:
For example, the whistleblowers allege politicization and misconduct with respect to the investigation of Hunter Biden. Specifically, the Committee is examining claims that the investigation was purposely slow-walked and subjected to improper and politically motivated interference. You were part of the chain of command for these whistleblowers and received an email from Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley in which he detailed a key prosecution team meeting on October 7, 2022. What Supervisory Special Agent Shapley detailed in that email is an essential piece of our investigation. Your testimony about these subjects is necessary for the Committee to advance its ongoing investigation. The Committee has sought to obtain the IRS’s voluntary compliance with our request to conduct a transcribed interview of you and has engaged in good faith with the agency to address the purported reasons why it could not comply. Nevertheless, the agency has still has not agreed to make you available.
Smith and Jordan told Sobocinski and Holley:
For instance, according to whistleblower testimony, you attended a meeting on October 7, 2022, at which U.S. Attorney David Weiss allegedly said he was “not the deciding official on whether charges are filed” against Hunter Biden.26 Additionally, as Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau’s Baltimore Field Office, you would have had oversight of the Hunter Biden investigation in the Wilmington Resident Office. The Committee has sought to obtain the Department’s voluntary compliance with our request to conduct a transcribed interview with you, and has engaged in good faith with the Department to address the purported reasons why it could not comply. Even still, the Department has not agreed to make you available.
DONATE
Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.
Comments
Keep it going. Bust them. Get the evidence. You don’t even have to make it up like they do.
This is the way. Make Biden have to play defense. Make the Democrats have to play defense. It’s harder to do when you actually did the crime, when you actually are corrupt and motivated by hate.
Lawfare against Democrats should have commenced long ago.
“You don’t even have to make it up like they do.” That’s exactly what’s happened, how many times does Jordan and Comer have to embarrass themselves for this is to sink in.
You must have been out of the country for the past two years if you think that Biden is on the defensive. When he allowed Weiss to become the special counsel, did he look like a man who was defensive? He and his DOJ henchmen simply do not care about the optics of their illegal acts. The House requesting these documents is the same as “Wishing upon a Star”. They are never going to get them and they have no power to enforce their request. Our Constitution was never written to cover this kind of tyranny. Right now, we have essentially a king in charge of our country and all of our federal agencies are at his disposal. This is beginning to look a lot like December 16, 1773, when the tea was thrown into the bay.
After sending more than $100 billion to Ukraine, Biden offered a one-time payment of $700 per household to people displaced by the Maui fires.
This is not going to end well
Biden will only spend 6 hours in Hawaii before going back to Lake Tahoe for another vacation.
Of course, Joe Biden didn’t take any questions after he deplaned.
Your point is understood, but I would note that the country is better off when Biden is NOT on the job.
Then again, he’s really more of a puppet for the Obama-Marxists who are controlling him, and we know THEY never rest when it comes to their mission.
$700 geez! Is that even a month’s rent in the affected area? What an insult to injury!
In normal times $700 might feed a local family for a week or two there. The times are decidedly not normal and I can only imagine what scarcity has done to the price of essentials.
He took 2 vacations before going to Maui for 6 hours…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/media-gives-biden-pass-taking-two-vacations-before/
… and massively disrupted support and relief efforts by even being there. There is ONE road in and out of Lahaina from the rest of Maui. All the local roads would have been closed and guarded so his humongous motorcade could proceed unimpeded by the serfs, bringing the whole area to a shutdown.
But hey, at least he got to embarrass himself (and the nation) on international television again.
in re: subpoenas.
Since when have this administration or its officials been subject to the law, the courts, or the Constitution?
Subotai Bahadur
These officials will not give you any parts of the truth. They are immune and they know it.
I’d like to know more about how a man such as Weiss who was close personnel friends with Beau Biden was not removed entirely from a case involving Beau’s brother in an obvious conflict of interest. His inexplicable actions in the case raise a whole bunch of red flags
This is superb-we need more subpoenas for Garland and all of the members of the Biden Crime Family who have made tons of money thanks to Joe and Hunter
Didn’t someone once say we needed to drain the swamp and got laughed at by the swamp?
I see the normal DC-Two-Step in process
–No, there was no contact between AG Garland and anybody listed.
–Well, just a little contact, but they only talked about grandchildren.
–Ok, a few work-related items were in the conversations, but no Biden
–Of course Garland talked to Weiss and co about Biden. It’s expected. Really.
–The next president has been sworn in and all that is old news.