LEAKED IRS Email Corroborates Whistleblower’s Claims About Biden DOJ Interference in Hunter Probe

A senior IRS official has corroborated a whistleblower’s bombshell allegation that Biden Justice Department officials meddled in the Hunter Biden tax probe, according to internal IRS emails released this week.

The internal IRS emails also showed that Waldon verified Shapley’s claim that he was instructed by IRS officials to ignore potentially incriminating evidence related to Hunter Biden’s business dealings while conducting a review of his tax returns. Shapley had previously alleged that he was told to “back off” from any scrutiny of Hunter Biden’s finances.

The revelations raise further questions about the Biden administration’s involvement in the investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes, which has been ongoing since 2018. The emails suggest that DOJ officials were actively interfering with the investigation and may have played a role in preventing charges from being brought against the president’s son.

The Biden Justice Department has denied any wrongdoing, and Hunter Biden has maintained that he has done nothing illegal. However, the latest developments are likely to fuel Republican claims that the Biden administration is engaging in a cover-up and shielding the president’s family from scrutiny.

“Weiss stated that he is not the deciding person on whether charges are filed,” Shapley wrote.

Waldon, who attended the meeting with Shapley, signed off on his subordinate’s characterization of the meeting. “Thanks, Gary. You covered it all,” Waldon wrote.

The email bolsters Shapley’s allegations that the Biden Justice Department intervened with the probe of the troubled first son and that, in contrast to assertions made by Attorney General Merrick Garland and others, Weiss was unable to work independently.

In relation to two misdemeanor accusations of failing to pay taxes in 2017 and 2018, Hunter Biden consented to a plea agreement this week. However, Shapley claimed that Weiss’s office and IRS investigators first wanted to prosecute Biden with criminal tax evasion for the years 2014 through 2018.

Shapley went into detail about Biden’s tax-evasion strategies, which included taking deductions for payments he paid to prostitutes and a sex club in Los Angeles. Garland is now subject to congressional inquiry because of Shapley’s email. Shapley, a 10-year IRS veteran, informed Congress that Weiss’s assertions were inconsistent with Garland’s testimony, according to which the prosecutor had complete control over the Biden probe.

“The Hunter Biden investigation … is being run by and supervised by the United States attorney for the District of Delaware,” Garland testified at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on April 26, 2022, referring to Weiss. “He is in charge of that investigation. There will not be interference of any political or improper kind.”

“I believe this to be a huge problem—inconsistent with DOJ public position and Merrick Garland testimony,” Shapley wrote in his Oct. 7, 2022, memo.

According to Shapley, Weiss disclosed that he went to Matthew Graves, the Joe Biden-appointed U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., in early summer 2022 to request to file charges in that jurisdiction. But according to Shapley, Weiss said the request was rejected. “Biden-appointed [U.S. attorney] said they could not charge in his district,” Shapley wrote.

Weiss said that he had requested special counsel authority to charge a case in Washington but that “Main DOJ denied his request and told him to follow the process,” according to Shapley.

According to Shapley, Weiss requested newly appointed prosecutor E. Martin Estrada to indict Biden in California in the middle of September 2022. Despite the fact that Estrada, another Biden appointment, eventually denied the request, the decision was still being made at the time.

The Weiss administration chose not to respond to Shapley’s claims. Requests for comment from the U.S. attorneys’ offices in California and Washington went unanswered.

The Justice Department said in a statement that Weiss “has full authority over this matter, including responsibility for deciding where, when, and whether to file charges as he deems appropriate.”