A New York Times article offers corroboration for IRS whistleblower Gary Shaply’s claim that the Joe Biden Justice Department may have somehow interfered with Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss’s investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes and gun crime.
Shaply claimed that Hunter Biden received “preferential treatment” and that “conflicts of interest” were rife in the investigation into the president’s son’s business dealings.
He noted that as soon as Joe Biden became the presumptive Democratic Party nominee in April 2020 that he began facing obstacles to his investigation from career Justice Department officials.
This was particularly true when it came to obtaining search warrants. He noted in his congressional deposition that the Justice Department seemed to be intentionally slow-walking the investigation. The IRS chose to defer to the Justice Department, Shaply testified.
Shaply claimed that the IRS received a Jul. 30, 2017 WhatsApp! message that Hunter Biden allegedly wrote to Chinese Communist Party official Henry Zhao that threatened him.
“‘I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father,’” Hunter Biden allegedly wrote.
Zhao ran Harvest Fund Management, a Chinese investment firm the Bidens were doing business with. He also had close ties to China’s external spy agency, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), through his business partner Jia Liqing. Her father, Jia Chunwang, headed the spy agency and was allegedly responsible for developing the Chinese strategy of seeding thousands of spies on foreign soil.
New York Times Corroborates Shaply
The Times confirms that Shaply found himself unable to bring charges against Biden in California where he lives.
“But in mid-2022, Mr. Weiss reached out to the top federal prosecutor in Washington, Matthew Graves, to ask his office to pursue charges and was rebuffed, according to Mr. Shapley’s testimony,” The Times wrote Tuesday. “A similar request to prosecutors in the Central District of California, which includes Los Angeles, was also rejected, Mr. Shapley testified. A second former I.R.S. official, who has not been identified, told House Republicans the same story. That episode was confirmed independently to The New York Times by a person with knowledge of the situation.”
Fox News Digital notes that the Times buried the confirmation in the 21st paragraph of its article.
Shaply told the committee that prosecutors wanted to remove Hunter Biden’s name from search warrants.
Garland Restates Claim About Justice Department Involvement
Attorney General Merrick Garland denied his claims.
“As I said at the outset, Mr. Weiss, who was appointed by President Trump as the U.S. attorney in Delaware and assigned this matter during the previous administration, would be permitted to continue his investigation and to make a decision to prosecute any way in which he wanted to and in any district in which he wanted to. Mr. Weiss has since sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee confirming that he had that authority,” Garland told reporters at a news conference. “I don’t know how it would be possible for anybody to block him from bringing a prosecution, given that he has this authority.”
John Rossomando was a senior analyst for Defense Policy and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, The National Interest, National Review Online, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award for his reporting.
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