Attorney General Merrick Garland is the unnamed official whose sworn testimony before Congress is being challenged in a bombshell letter from an IRS whistleblower’s attorney.
over whether Weiss was truly able to bring charges without the approval of other Justice Department officials, specifically if the alleged crime occurred outside Delaware.
Grassley pressed: “Does the Delaware US Attorney lack independent charging authority over certain criminal allegations against the president’s son outside of the district of Delaware?” Giving false testimony to Congress can be a crime punishable by up to five years in prison if it’s proven that the error was intentional.The anonymous whistleblower has since early 2020 supervised the IRS’s investigation of Hunter Biden for alleged tax evasion and related crimes linked to the 53-year-old’s foreign income from countries including China and Ukraine.
Hunter earned up to $1 million per year to serve on the board of Ukrainian gas firm Burisma while his vice president dad led the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy. Lytle, the whistleblower’s attorney, wrote Wednesday to congressional committee leaders that “[d]espite serious risks of retaliation, my client is offering to provide you with information necessary to exercise your constitutional oversight function and wishes to make the disclosures in a non-partisan manner to the leadership of the relevant committees on both sides of the political aisle.”
“Out of an abundance of caution regarding taxpayer privacy laws, my client has refrained from sharing certain information even with me in the course of seeking legal advice,” the attorney wrote.“My goal is to ensure that my client can properly share his lawfully protected disclosures with congressional committees,” Lytle added.
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