In painstaking detail, Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers are directly challenging Attorney General Merrick Garland's claim that David Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware, was allowed to run his Hunter Biden tax probe free of political interference.
During a recent Senate hearing, Sen. Chuck Grassley asked Garland to describe what would happen if Weiss wanted to pursue charges against President Biden's son outside of his Delaware jurisdiction, considering Garland hadn't made him a Justice Department special counsel.
"Since October of 2022, the Delaware U.S. Attorney's Office and DOJ Tax have pretty much stopped communicating with me and my team, and we have ultimately been removed and replaced from the investigative team. I want to make that clear. We were removed, and they replaced us with a new agent and a new supervisor," he also said.
The IRS whistleblower also said Weiss tried to bring the case to the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. and to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Central District of California but he was denied.
"Despite owing in excess of $100,000 in federal income taxes each year, he did not pay the income tax due for either year." Shapley said he had been under the impression Weiss was still deciding whether to charge Hunter's 2014 and 2015 tax violations.
"I would later be told by United States Attorney Weiss that the D.C. U.S Attorney would not allow U.S. Attorney Weiss to charge those years in his district," he said.
Weiss said his request for that authority was denied and that he was told to follow DOJ's process.
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