Rep. James Comer launched an announcement calling Hunter Biden’s tax evasion whistleblowers ‘courageous’ after which accused the President’s DOJ of defending ‘the massive man’.
Comer’s assertion comes after it was revealed that the Division of Justice filed 9 new felony expenses in opposition to U.S. President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, in California.
All 9 expenses relate to tax, together with two felony expenses for submitting a false return, a felony cost for tax evasion, 4 failure to pay expenses, and an extra two expenses for failure to file. The costs span the 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 tax years.
‘Two courageous IRS whistleblowers, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, positioned their careers on the road to blow the whistle on misconduct and politicization within the Hunter Biden felony investigation,’ Comer stated on Thursday.
‘The Division of Justice bought caught in its try to provide Hunter Biden an unprecedented sweetheart plea deal,’ the Republican congressman continued.
The Division of Justice has filed new felony expenses in opposition to Hunter Biden
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Rep. James Comer (pictured) launched an announcement calling Hunter Biden’s tax evasion whistleblowers ‘courageous’ after which accused the President’s DOJ of defending ‘the massive man’
Comer has been chairman of the Home Committee on Oversight and Accountability since January 7, 2023.
‘In the present day’s expenses filed in opposition to Hunter Biden are the results of Mr. Shapley and Mr. Ziegler’s efforts to make sure all Individuals are handled equally beneath the regulation,’ the Kentucky Consultant added in his assertion.
‘Each American ought to applaud these males for his or her braveness to reveal the reality.
‘IRS whistleblowers additionally revealed investigators had been prevented from following proof that might have led to Joe Biden.
‘The Home Oversight Committee’s investigation of the Bidens’ affect peddling schemes reveals how Joe Biden knew about, participated in, and benefitted from his household cashing in on the Biden title.
‘Actually, Hunter Biden’s company entities implicated by at this time’s indictments funneled international money that landed in Joe Biden’s checking account.
‘Except U.S. Lawyer Weiss investigates everybody concerned within the Bidens’ fraud schemes and affect peddling, it is going to be clear President Biden’s DOJ is defending Hunter Biden and the massive man.’
The primary whistleblower Joseph Ziegler – recognized solely as ‘Whistleblower X’ till he testified on the Home Oversight Committee in July – is a 13-year veteran of the IRS who took the lead within the federal investigation into Hunter Biden, which spanned each the Trump and Biden administrations.
Ziegler advisable prosecutors cost Hunter Biden with a number of felonies and misdemeanors in 2021, CBS reported.
The investigator believed he had proof that confirmed the president’s son had improperly claimed enterprise deductions for quite a few private bills, together with his kids’s faculty tuition, resort payments and funds to escorts.
Gary Shapley is the second whistleblower – he was Ziegler’s supervisor and the primary to come back ahead with the allegations in opposition to the Justice Division.
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IRS agent Joseph Ziegler declared the stunning determine with further documentation on Tuesday with the Home Methods & Means Committee
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Home Oversight Chair James Comer claims he is traced some $20 million from international actors into Biden members of the family’ financial institution accounts by way of a collection of complicated shell accounts designed to reduce scrutiny
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Hunter Biden – seen above together with his spouse Melissa Cohen – supplied to testify in public earlier than Congress in December
The Justice Division now says the president’s son faces as much as 17 years in jail.
The indictment states that regardless of receiving hundreds of thousands in private earnings and monetary help from a buddy, Hunter Biden ‘spent this cash on medication, escorts and girlfriends, luxurious resorts and rental properties, unique vehicles, clothes, and different objects of a private nature, in brief, the whole lot however his taxes.’
‘The Defendant engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at the least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 by way of 2019,’ it reads.