Wednesday’s IRS whistleblower testimony was filled with bombshells —but this one may take the cake. While discussing the Biden family probe, IRS Agent Joseph Ziegler said Joe Biden was “extremely well known” to feds investigating Hunter and that he showed up at an FBI office during the probe.
“There were definitely potential issues I saw with working this case in Delaware,” IRS special agent Joseph Ziegler said in prepared remarks before the House Oversight Committee. “We were working with a small [US Attorney’s Office] who might not have ever worked a case of this caliber. Delaware was the state in which the subject’s father lived in, and the family was extremely well known throughout the state, including [by] people on the team.”
“This was later evident by the president, Joe Biden, having to come into the FBI office on an unrelated matter, and it being joked [about] with the team,” Ziegler added, presumably referring to the bureau’s Baltimore field office. “Another example was that a magistrate judge in Delaware made inappropriate comments at the signing of the first electronic search warrant that had caused her to recuse themself from the investigation, which set us back an additional 4 months as we had to draft new warrants and redo investigative steps.”
From The New York Post:
Ziegler did not identify the judge or specify the comments she made, but recalled thinking that “these are issues we have to deal with and there is nothing we can change.”
The whistleblower added that the investigation lost one of its top prosecutors, Assistant US Attorney Jamie McCall, to the private sector in early 2020, which he called a “devastating blow” as McCall was a “hard-working, no-nonsense kind of AUSA” who “wanted to do the right thing for the right reason.”
Ziegler and his boss, IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley, affirmed their prior testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee that the president’s Justice Department slow-walked a five-year probe into the first son’s alleged financial crimes.
The IRS whistleblowers said Biden-appointed US attorneys interfered in the case by preventing Delaware US Attorney David Weiss from charging Hunter Biden last year with tax fraud in Southern California and Washington, DC.
More over at The New York Post:
Biden ‘extremely well known’ to feds investigating Hunter, showed up to FBI office during probe: IRS whistleblower https://t.co/1NWpTtm1kO pic.twitter.com/1bdDWfHKY8
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