Shapley testified in May before the House Oversight Committee and the transcript was made public on Thursday.
Shapley, who is a supervisory special agent with IRS criminal investigations and has worked for the agency since July 2009, testified in May and the committee made the transcript available on Thursday.
"Throughout my tenure as U.S. Attorney my decisions have been made — and with respect to the matter must be made — without reference to political considerations," Weiss wrote. He added that "the investigation into Hunter Biden, code name Sportsman, was first opened in November 2018 as an offshoot of an investigation the IRS was conducting into a foreign-based amateur online pornography platform."
In the course of his interview with the House Ways and Means Committee he was shown an email — first reported on by NBC News in December — from Hunter Biden's business associate stating that Hunter Biden needed to re-state his income on his tax returns in large part due to his Burisma payments. Shapely said he participated in the investigation of the 2018 tax filing. Court filings made in Delaware indicating that the a plea agreement is forthcoming have been sparse on detail, but Shapely testified under oath that Hunter Biden was listing personal expenses as business expenses.
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