IRS removes ENTIRE team probing Hunter Biden’s tax returns
The IRS has removed the entire team probing Hunter Biden‘s tax returns ‘in retaliation against a whistleblower who alleged his colleagues were covering-up the president’s son’s financial crimes.’
Those dismissal orders came from the Justice Department, the whistleblower’s attorneys told Congress in a letter, according to The New York Post.
But IRS commissioner Daniel Werfel told Congress that his agency would not retaliate against whistleblowers.
Hunter’s business dealings have been under the microscope since a series of leaked emails sparked suspicions that he was using his political connections to land lucrative consulting contracts.
The IRS has removed the entire team probing Hunter Biden’s tax returns ‘in retaliation against whistleblower who alleged they were covering up president’s son’s financial ‘crimes.’ Pictured: Hunter Biden joins family at the University of Pennsylvania where his daughter was graduating
‘On April 27, 2023, IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel appeared before the House Committee on Ways and Means. He testified: ‘I can say without any hesitation there will be no retaliation for anyone making an allegation or a call to a whistleblower hotline’
‘Today the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Supervisory Special Agent we represent was informed that he and his entire investigative team are being removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile, controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress.
‘He was informed the change was at the request of the Department of Justice,’ Mark Lytle and Tristan Leavitt wrote.
That whistleblower – who has not been named – did not publicly identify Hunter as the subject of his coverup claims, but congressional sources did.
‘On April 27, 2023, IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel appeared before the House Committee on Ways and Means.
‘He testified: ‘I can say without any hesitation there will be no retaliation for anyone making an allegation or a call to a whistleblower hotline.’
‘However, this move is clearly retaliatory and may also constitute obstruction of a congressional inquiry,’ the lawyers said.
‘Our client has a right to make disclosures to Congress … He is protected by 5 U.S.C. § 2302 from retaliatory personnel actions—including receiving a ‘significant change in duties, responsibilities, or working conditions’ (which this clearly is) because of his disclosures to Congress.
‘Any attempt by any government official to prevent a federal employee from furnishing information to Congress is also a direct violation of longstanding appropriations restriction.
‘Furthermore, 18 U.S.C. § 1505 makes it a crime to obstruct an investigation of Congress,’ Lytle and Leavitt wrote.
‘We respectfully request that you give this matter your prompt attention. Removing the experienced investigators who have worked this case for years and are now the subject-matter experts is exactly the sort of issue our client intended to blow the whistle on to begin with.’
Hunter, 53, was spotted earlier Monday, along with his father President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for his daughter Maisy’s graduation.
He still waits to find out if he will be charged with tax fraud and has corruption claims pile up against his family.
His legal team met with Department of Justice officials on April 26 in a sign that a decision is forthcoming on whether he will face criminal charges.
The 53-year-old denies exploiting his family connections in order to win contracts abroad
Leaked files from Hunter Biden’s laptop contained a series of lewd phots as well as emails about his business deals
The probe will look at whether the consultant dodged taxes, laundered money and lied about past drug use to buy a gun.
There is understood to be ‘growing frustration’ within the FBI over the fact that Delaware US Attorney David Weiss, who is supervising the case, had not yet brought charges after the bureau concluded most of its work last year.
The White House has repeatedly denied interfering in the case.
Republican lawmakers are currently probing how 10 family members of Joe Biden raked in over $10 million from foreign nationals around the time he was Obama’s deputy.
Those who benefitted included Hallie Biden, Beau Biden’s widow and Hunter Biden’s one-time girlfriend, Hunter Biden’s ex-wife Kathleen Buhle.
Hunter Biden’s current wife Melissa Cohen Biden, Biden’s brother James and his wife Sarah, and the grandchildren and nieces and nephews of Joe Biden also alleged to have received payments.
Joe Biden met with relatives’ business associates on many occasions — including those from China, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russia and Ukraine — and House Republicans allege that Biden family members offered no legitimate business services and were merely selling access to the upper reaches of US government.
After his father took office as president and promised no further family conflicts of interest abroad, Hunter launched an art career seeking as much as $500,000 for his novice works.
Hunter’s membership on the board of a Ukrainian energy company also raised suspicions of influence-peddling.
He and the president’s sister Valerie Biden Owens traveled on Air Force One on the commander-in-chief’s recent visit to Ireland.
Hunter Biden pictured arriving at a Batesville, Arkansas courthouse earlier this month
Photo of laptop computer reportedly owned by Hunter Biden
Biden recently appeared before a judge in Arkansas in a paternity case filed by a former fling, Lunden Roberts.
Hunter will also have to submit to a deposition in June in which Roberts’ lawyers will likely grill him about his various businesses and shady overseas ventures.
Hunter Biden’s laptop also included a series of lewd photos and a webcam video of the 53-year-old that portrayed his struggles with flatulence
They’ll also want to know Hunter’s finances have cratered while he’s selling paintings for up to $500,000 apiece under his new guise as an abstract artist.
Roberts, a former stripper, won a reported $2.5 million settlement from Hunter after taking him to court in 2019.
She also forced the ex-Navy reservist, booted out of the military in 2014 for testing positive for cocaine, to take a DNA test to prove he fathered their daughter, Navy Joan, during their 2017 fling.
Roberts’s lawyers say Hunter Biden has not provided ‘a single item or word of discovery’ in their ongoing child support lawsuit.