House Republicans have released transcripts of their interviews with two IRS whistleblowers who accused the DOJ of granting Hunter Biden 'preferential treatment.'
to a pair of tax-related misdemeanors and enter into a pretrial diversion agreement that would enable him to avoid prosecution on one felony gun charge, potentially ending the DOJ's yearslong probe.
In hundreds of pages of testimony, the two IRS whistleblowers claim that senior Justice Department officials blocked prosecutors' attempts to bring charges against Hunter Biden in Washington and California, and refused to grant Weiss special counsel status. Hunter Biden disembarks from Air Force One at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, N.Y., Feb. 4, 2023.The whistleblowers also claimed that some investigators advocated for Hunter Biden to face harsher felony charges for his failure to pay taxes, instead of the misdemeanor offenses to which he ultimately agreed to plead guilty.
"As both the Attorney General and U.S. Attorney David Weiss have said, U.S. Attorney Weiss has full authority over this matter, including responsibility for deciding where, when, and whether to file charges as he deems appropriate," the DOJ said in a statement. "He needs no further approval to do so."
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