The IRS wanted to charge Hunter Biden with felony tax evasion, but it was blocked by the DOJ
The two-tiered “justice” system marches on. This time the IRS was willing to apply the usual standard to Biden’s son Hunter and charge him with a felony, but the DOJ never carried out the recommendation:
Rep. Jason Smith (R., Mo.) said at a press conference that two IRS employees claimed the agency sought felony charges against the younger Biden for attempting to evade taxes and fraudulent or false statements, all felony charges. The whistleblowers, who worked on the Biden probe since its start in November 2018, further claimed that the investigation was marred by “recurring unjustified delays” and “unusual actions outside the normal course of any investigation,” Smith said…
According to Smith, the whistleblowers testified that Hunter Biden failed to pay more than $2.2 million in taxes and received $8.3 million from foreign entities in Ukraine, China, and Romania. Biden received at least $6 million from CEFC China Energy, an energy conglomerate linked to Chinese military intelligence. A Romanian businessman investigated for bribery paid Biden another $1 million for help on his legal case. And Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company, paid Hunter Biden more than $80,000 a month to serve on its board of directors.
In one stunning revelation, Smith cited an encrypted text message in which Hunter Biden threatened a Chinese business partner for payment by invoking his father.
“I am sitting here with my father and would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,” Biden wrote in a July 30, 2017, message to Henry Zhao.
“I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”
The whistleblowers claimed that the Justice Department dragged its feet in authenticating the text message, according to Smith.
The Republican said the whistleblowers further testified that U.S. attorney David Weiss attempted to bring charges against Hunter Biden on at least two occasions but was blocked from doing so. Smith said Weiss sought to file charges in Washington, D.C., in March 2022 and in California in fall 2022. He also sought special counsel status in Spring 2022 but was also rejected.
From an interview in early May:
More details here:
*The first son was given the code name “Sportsman” by investigators.
*Delaware US Attorney David Weiss sought to bring federal charges against Hunter, 53, in the Central District of California and in Washington, DC, last year and was denied both times by Biden-appointed US attorneys Martin Estrada and Matthew Graves, respectively.
*According to the second whistleblower, who has remained anonymous, the investigation covered the years 2014 through 2019, during which Hunter and his “associates” received approximately $17.3 million from Ukraine, Romania and China — with the first son alone scooping $8.3 million.
*Investigators pressed for felony charges against Hunter for ducking $2.2 million in tax payments — rather than misdemeanors announced Tuesday as part of a probation-only plea deal.
*Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf discouraged investigators from pursuing lines of questioning related to Joe Biden, saying at one point that there was “no specific criminality,” according to Shapley.
The revelation that Biden appointees blocked charges against his son is politically explosive because Attorney General Merrick Garland testified under oath to Congress earlier this year that Weiss was empowered to bring charges outside of Delaware. Intentionally misleading Congress is a crime.
Weiss, who signed off this week on the Delaware plea deal, sought to be appointed special counsel in the case at least twice — including as recently as spring 2022 — but was turned down by the Biden Justice Department, both whistleblowers alleged.
Please read the whole thing. It contains tidbits such as this:
…[I]nvestigators later did ask [Biden family associate] Walker about Joe Biden’s role. An FBI agent asked if there were “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?”
“Yes,” Walker answered, according to Shapley, before “inexplicably, the FBI agent changed the subject.”
Inexplicably and unexpectedly.
I wonder how many people who are not already on the right will ever see or hear of these reports.
NOTE: More details here.
ADDENDUM: From a comment at Ace’s:
The Biden family crest needs the motto: “Guilty as Sin, Free as a Bird” inscribed under the seal.
No need to hide it as a Latin phrase, either. They’re literally mooning us with their grift, and laughing all the way to the bank.
One small quibble – not literally; figuratively. Then again, perhaps “literally” for some of the photos on Hunter’s laptop.
Eventually this will sink Sundowner from trying for another term, if he even makes it another year. If the Deep State wants him gone they have this sword over him for a offer he can’t refuse.
Skip:
If they want him gone he will be gone even without this. And even with this, if they don’t find a winning replacement, they will keep him.
I’ve been seeing this tale unfold, too. I can only quote Durham again, who says: “…I don’t think the nation can stand” under a two-tiered Justice system.
Nothing will happen. The President of the United States has been bribed and he’ll get away with it.
We have hit bottom. That is until the ChiComs take over Taiwan. Then watch our economy and stock mark tank.
How did the Dems and Press become so corrupt?
slowly and then all at once, they were largely soviet tools, kerry biden pelosi and now chinese ones,
is that their story now,
https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/22/irs-investigation-into-hunter-biden-started-as-probe-into-foreign-pornography-ring/
The Biden family crest needs the motto: “Guilty as Sin, Free as a Bird” inscribed under the seal.
–neo quoting Ace commenter
I wonder if this was a minor misremembering of Bill Ayers’ famous quote after the DOJ had to cut the Weather Underground terrorists loose:
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Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
–Bill Ayers
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Well, at least he gave America some credit. 🙂
We’ve been letting off the Left for a long time.
If I had any capacity to be shocked at Democrat Party corruption, I would be shocked, but that capacity is gone.
MORE Details — Whistleblower says Biden met with Chinese officials…From John Solomon
HEADLINE “IRS whistleblower says search warrants, charges for Hunter Biden blocked, Joe met Chinese client”
SUBHEADLINE “Joe Biden also attended meeting with Hunter and Chinese energy officials, new evidence shows”
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/whistleblower-bombshells-irs-agent-reveals-search-warrants-hunter
In 1970, the media favored the Democratic Party, and this was evident in story selection and the way issues were framed. By 1997, the broadcast media was an extension of the Democratic Party, while the print media retained some residual independence even as they went out of their way to avoid hiring dissenters. By 2012, the media as a whole was an extension of the Democratic Party, bar dissidents hired for commercial reasons (Fox) and dissidents in new media. Over the succeeding 10 years, the tech companies undertook escalating efforts to prevent dissenters from using common-and-garden means of communication while microbes in the apparat leaned on banks and payment processors to deny them service.
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As for politicians, it now appears that the apogee of concern for ethics in government occurred around 1975. The Democratic Party in our own time regards it as a nuisance when applied to them and of use only as a tool to harass the opposition. Keep in mind, those rank-and-file Democratic voters are perfectly content with this travesty. Now tell me what Jimmy Carter and Michael Dukakis have to say about it. Maybe they were always phonies.
I have a dream; a rogues gallery appearing at trial for treason, among the group of defendants… one Merrick Garland.
Cornhead -“How did the Dems and Press become so corrupt?
miguel cervantes – “slowly and then all at once”
huxley – “We’ve been letting off the Left for a long time.”
Ayers is just one example (I think the allusion was deliberate, just slightly misremembered).
“after the DOJ had to cut the Weather Underground terrorists loose:”
I’m beginning to question whether that was a “had to” or a “searched for an excuse to.”
More from Professor Jacobson.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/06/its-the-payoffs-to-the-biden-family-that-really-involve-our-national-security-but-doj-is-running-interference/
From the first post Neo cited:
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/irs-whistleblower-hunter-biden/
Sounds a lot like the Democrats’ claim that “Biden doesn’t tell the DOJ what to do.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/06/is-the-cover-up-unraveling.php
It wouldn’t have been hard to investigate the claims that Hunter and Joe were together when the briber was threatened.
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/photos-place-hunter-biden-at-fathers-house-the-day-he-invoked-dads-name-to-chinese-business-partner/
From the abandoned laptop, of course.
Which the FBI had physical possession of for years.
Verifying what has long been suspected.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/22/fbi-knew-hunter-bidens-laptop-was-authentic-a-year-before-pressuring-big-tech-to-censor-it/
What Kate said above…alas…
And just a bit of deja-vu…(though, if “deja-vu” is ALWAYS happening, is it still “deja-vu”?)
The Illustrious Jack Smith (that can’t possibly be his real name, can it?):
“We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone…” (Did he really say that?)
https://www.c-span.org/video/?528657-1/special-counsel-jack-smith-delivers-statement-indictment-president-trump
And just to remind us of the operating zeitgeist…Yesterday, Today and FOREVER:
“Trump made me/us do it…. It’s all HIS fault…and his supporters…”
(From the Democratic Party Bible…)
And a little diversion is obviously called for:
“The TIME to INVESTIGATE Clarence Thomas for CORRUPTION is NOW!”
(Remember, Thomas is NOT Black—since the criteria for being Black is to vote for “Biden”—we heard it from the great man hisself—and I doubt very much that Thomas voted that way. Ditto for Tim Scott and any number of so-called POC, who are REALLY White Supremacists with deceptive pigmentation….which gross deception I guess makes them WORSE than White Supremacists. They are RACE TRAITORS!!!)
Not to worry: Our well-trained media mavens—AKA putrid, pusillanimous pundits—will earnestly inform us till the cows come home that all of the above is merely spurious—make that, wild—CONSERVATIVE conjecture…and just another reason why CORRUPT, DISHONEST CONSERVATIVES do not deserve to govern anything and why they must be kept as far as possible in the political wilderness as possible….)
According to this, several mainstream legacy “news” outlets finally ran the story several hours after the House hearing:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/msm_pilot_fish_like_nyt_wapo_cnn_and_cbs_signal_that_biden_is_on_his_way_out_.html
So Hunter and all the Biden’s get another free pass; the good news just keeps rolling in.
Here is my prediction; come the next presidential election, the democratic nominee (IMHO, it will be either joke bidet, Kennedy or Newsome) will win the election regardless of how few votes they get.
If they get zero “actual” votes, they will still win the election.
The powers that be in DC will make sure that the next prez is not a republican.
Recall what that great humanitarian and promoter of individual liberties said;
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
Joseph Stalin
Kate is correct: “If I had any capacity to be shocked at Democrat Party corruption, I would be shocked, but that capacity is gone.”
This isn’t a Biden scandal. This is Democrats’ criminality on display. Every single Democrat, including their voters, eagerly participates as members in the criminal organization.
This isn’t an ordinary crime family. It’s also a religious cult modeled on Big Brother and the party as described in “1984”. If the party says 2+2=5, it is. Men can get pregnant. Covid is stopped by masks, social distancing and the jab. Separating garbage into piles before dumping them all together in the landfill will save the planet. Women don’t lie. Men are toxic simply by existing. Most honest election ever. Economic principles don’t apply to minimum wage. Cops are hunting down black kids. Mostly peaceful riots. Antifa doesn’t exist. White supremacy is a serious terrorist threat.
The list of Humpty Dumpty craziness that is part of the Democrat Catechism goes on and on and on. The lies and slanders are all swallowed and regurgitated by the faithful. Heretics are cancelled. Dissension is brutally suppressed. Truth is whatever the party says and may pivot so suddenly observers can get whiplash. The new pieties will be recited just as fervently as the old despite the obvious contradictions. Moral superiority demands it.
Republicans are all guilty of crimes regardless of evidence or proof. Always. No Democrat is ever guilty of crime or even corruption no matter how much evidence or proof. By definition.
And every Democrat — politician, bureaucrat, journalist, academic, voter — is a part of the crime cult. Being part of the cult is how the faithful derive their self-esteem and feelings of superiority.
as I recalled the prosecutor in the ayers case, was reluctant because of the evidence of what mark felt had supervised (breakins) documented in media pennsylvania, of course there was the evidence of the informant, memory escapes me now who relayed ayers plans after the revolution, scaled up to 2023, it involves the whole deplorable set,
the nixon administration was not ruthless enough in dispatching ayers,
but you see how the squirrels about boxes, that is part of this kangaroo court doesn’t really mean a great deal,
“…ruthless…”
A bit tangential but definitely RELATED:
“Shocking Truth Behind the FDA’s Ivermectin Crackdown”—
https://www.theepochtimes.com/shocking-reason-ivermectin-was-demonized-by-fda-facts-matter_5343272.html
Key graf:
“…[I]ronically, if you actually click on the website that the FDA linked to…, you’re taken to a webpage which includes a hyperlink to a repository of clinical trials. And if you read through those clinical trials, you’d find that half of them actually suggest that Ivermectin is effective at treating COVID.
“Furthermore, even outside of the clinical trials that were linked to by the FDA, there is a growing body of research showing that Ivermectin is an essential treatment for COVID, and that the reason that it was so strongly repelled by the government, was so that they can maintain their Emergency Use Authorization status for the mRNA-based vaccines.” [Emphasis mine; Barry M.]
And so, just another huge lie (part of a pattern…).
Short version: SO WHAT! if masses died and a huge number of people had their lives wrecked…as long as the Democrats were able to accrue almost total power?
According to Newbusters, NBC was the only one of the 3 networks that reported on these revelations last night, CBS and ABC ignored them. Truthfuly though, I’m surprised that NBC actually committed an act of journalism. I expected that there would be the normal regime media complete blackout on such a story. I wonder what’s going on?
what is the color of the sky on their world
https://grabien.com/story.php?id=428713
Hunter?
The exception to the rule “you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear?”
I don’t think so. He’s the gift that keeps on giving.