Pressure is growing in congressional, legal and media circles for the federal judge in the Hunter Biden case to reject a plea deal that would spare the first son from serving prison time after evidence has emerged from two IRS whistleblowers that a more serious criminal tax case was sabotaged by the Justice Department.
In an interview to be aired Thursday on the John Solomon Reports podcast he detailed how career agents, career prosecutors, the DOJ tax division and lead U.S. Attorney David Weiss supported charging Hunter Biden with felonies alleging tax evasion and avoidance all the way back to 2014 totaling $2.2 million, including failing to pay taxes on $400,000 in income he got from the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings.
Shapley said President Joe Biden's son was spared the more serious charges when the U.S. Attorneys in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles - both appointed by Biden - declined Weiss' request for an indictment and then the statute of limitations on the older alleged offenses were allowed to expire.
Hunter Biden has now struck a deal with Weiss to plead guilty to two misdemeanors tax evasion charges from 2017-18 and to enter a probation program that would result in a federal felony gun charge to be dismissed.
Hunter Biden, 53, is slated to appear July 26 in federal court in Delaware before U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika, an appointee of former President Donald Trump.
"What the Department of Justice looks to be doing is just pushing this off, and to try and expediently get rid of it." In testimony released last Thursday, Shapley said the political meddling was so extensive in the Biden probe that "There is no way of knowing if evidence of other criminal activity existed concerning Hunter Biden or President Biden." Whistleblower 1 Transcript Redacted.
"The crux of this, as I understand it, is that Hunter Biden had a history of noncompliance with his taxes, and he would often get large sums of money and wouldn't withhold," Shapley said.
No comments:
Post a Comment