Special counsel David Weiss forced the IRS to take a top agent off the Hunter Biden tax fraud investigation after he told Mr. Weiss the case was being mishandled.
Gary Shapley, the IRS whistleblower who disclosed evidence alleging political interference by the Justice Department to protect Hunter Biden from tax fraud charges, believes Mr. Weiss first sought to push him off the case after a contentious meeting on Oct. 7, 2022.
The meeting with Mr. Weiss, Mr. Shapley later told Congress, was “surprisingly contentious” and “ended quite awkwardly.”After the meeting, Mr. Shapley’s legal team told The Washington Times, Mr. Weiss, then the Delaware U.S. Attorney, began reviewing “protected disclosures” Mr. Shapley had been filing to his supervisor about the Hunter Biden IRS probe dating back to 2020. The disclosures documented the ways Mr. Shapley believed the investigation was being slow-walked and mishandled.
Some of the testimony contradicts Mr. Shapley’s recollections of the Oct. 7 meeting, including his notes from the meeting that memorialize Mr. Weiss telling the IRS and FBI officials in the room that “he is not the deciding person” on charging Hunter Biden. The statement contradicted congressional testimony from Attorney General Merrick Garland, who said Mr. Weiss was “in charge” of the investigation and there would be no interference from him.
“I recall more vividly him stating he was not going to be responding to Mr. Shapley’s emails anymore, and at some point, he said he would be talking to me,” Mr. Waldon said, according to a transcript of the interview obtained by The Washington Times.
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