Attorney General Merrick Garland denied that US Attorney David Weiss asked for special counsel powers to investigate Hunter Biden, a day after whistleblower accounts alleged years of Justice Department stonewalling.
Garland also denied that Weiss was twice blocked from bringing criminal charges against President Joe Biden's son in jurisdictions outside of Delaware.The whistleblower claims came from two IRS Criminal Investigation agents who played key roles in the Hunter Biden investigation: Gary Shapley, a supervisory special agent with the IRS’s criminal investigation, and an unnamed IRS case agent who is referred to as “Whistleblower X.
Weiss had told the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee earlier this month that “I have been granted ultimate authority over this matter, including responsibility for deciding where, when, and whether to file charges.” Shapley’s congressional testimony included a copy of an Oct. 7, 2022, email he sent after a meeting with Weiss, which recounted that “Weiss said he is not the deciding person on whether charges are filed” and that “Weiss requested special counsel authority.” The email also said that Weiss had told them that the federal prosecutor in the nation’s capital “said they could not charge in his district.
He said that Weiss “surprised” the assembled group by directly telling them,"I'm not the deciding official on whether charges are filed.” Shapley lamented that “all of our years of effort getting to the bottom of the massive amounts of foreign money Hunter Biden received from Burisma and others during that period would be for nothing.”
Shapley said there was one more call 10 days later, which Weiss wasn’t on, and that “in response to questions about more subpoena requests, we were told there was no grand jury any longer to issue subpoena requests out of.”
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