A tipster says that the Biden administration messed up an FBI probe into Hunter Biden.
On Thursday, the White House denied what a “whistleblower” said about how the FBI investigation into Hunter Biden was handled by the Biden administration. The White House says that President Biden has made sure that the review is “free from any political interference.”
Ian Sams, a spokeswoman for the White House, told Fox News that President Joe Biden has made it clear that the investigation will be handled by the Justice Department, which will be run by a U.S. Attorney chosen by former President Donald Trump. The investigation will not be affected by politics from the White House. Sams said, “Since he took office and in line with his campaign promise, he has been working to give the Justice Department back its independence when it comes to making decisions about criminal investigations.”
He said, “He has kept that promise.”
The White House sent out a statement after an IRS criminal senior agent who wants to be protected as a whistleblower said that the Biden administration was messing up the investigation of Hunter Biden. The leaker says there are “clear” conflicts of interest, such as the president’s son getting “preferential treatment,” and that politics is “wrongly affecting decisions and protocols that career law enforcement professionals would normally follow in similar situations if the subject weren’t political.”
In 2018, the federal government began to look into Hunter Biden. The U.S. government looked into his “tax affairs” when it found SARs on payments from “China and other foreign nations.”
A story from 2020 about a money fraud investigation showed that the FBI had asked for information from the supposed Hunter Biden laptop.
After his father was re-elected as president in 2020, it was announced that a review into Hunter Biden’s “tax affairs” would begin in December of that year. David Weiss, who is the U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, is in charge of the investigation.
The White House has said since the president took office that he and his son never talked about work. These sources say that the president has never told the FBI or DOJ that a family member is being investigated.
Before he was elected, Biden’s team came up with a plan to “keep the president or White House from interfering in federal investigations and prosecutions in a way that is not appropriate.”
An executive order signed by President Joe Biden on his first day in office made the administration’s pledge to ethics official. The order told all government workers not to do anything that could “illegally interfere with the Department of Justice’s decisions about investigations or prosecutions.”
But the IRS tipster says that Hunter Biden’s probe has not been done well.
Nixon Peabody LLP lawyer Mark D. Lytle sent a letter to members of Congress saying that his client had been doing a “ongoing and sensitive investigation of a high-profile, controversial subject since early 2020 and would like to make protected whistleblower disclosures to Congress.”
Lytle told lawmakers that his client “has already made protected disclosures internally at the IRS, through counsel to the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, and to the Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General.”
Lytle said that the information showed a “contradiction to sworn testimony to Congress by a senior political appointee” and a “failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the final decision of the case.”
He said that the information given by Lytle’s client included “preferential treatment and politics improperly affecting decisions and protocols that career law enforcement professionals would normally follow in similar situations if the subject wasn’t political.”
In his letter, he said, “My goal is to make sure that my client can properly share his legally protected disclosures with congressional committees.” He also offered to meet in person to give more information about his client’s proof.
It was sent to the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House Ways and Means, Senate Finance, and House Judiciary Committees.
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have been looking into Hunter Biden’s business deals and those of other family members. The committee is looking to find out if President Biden has anything to do with these businesses and if they are a threat to U.S. national security.