Gary Shapley is still speaking out about political interference in the Hunter Biden investigation, telling CBS News that a top prosecutor blocked efforts to follow money trails involving “dad” or “the big guy.”
That is: “There were certain investigative steps we weren’t allowed to take that could have led us to President Biden.”
The 14-year IRS veteran is also positive Hunter himself got special treatment: “Based on my experience, if this was a small business owner or any other non-connected individual, they would have been charged with felony counts.”
That’s as Attorney General Merrick Garland has bristled at what he calls bids “to attack the integrity of the Justice Department” by “claiming we do not treat like cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy and essential to the safety of the American people.”
Hmm. Meanwhile, no less than The New York Times has confirmed one of Shapley’s most incendiary claims, namely that Delaware US Attorney David Weiss told investigators he’d been blocked from filing charges against Hunter in DC.
“That episode was confirmed independently to The New York Times by a person with knowledge of the situation,” the paper now reports — albeit only in the 21st paragraph of its story. Another whistleblower also backs up Shapley’s account.
And Shapley has major contemporaneous documents backing up his claims that Weiss repeatedly said he’d been blocked.
Again, Garland has testified under oath that Weiss couldn’t be blocked.
Sure looks like “the integrity of the Justice Department” needs investigating, Mr. AG.
At a minimum, we know that Justice somehow let the statute of limitations expire without charging Hunter over his nonpayment of taxes on his Burisma windfall, likely his worst tax crime.
Is that routine department practice?
And that Justice had Hunter’s laptop (fully verified) by early 2019 — but never gave the crack IRS team access to it.
Is keeping its own investigators in the dark on crucial leads really how the department treats other cases, Merrick?
Plus, of course: Is it really standard practice to quash lines of investigation if they might lead to the president?
Congress has a duty to swear in Garland, Weiss and other prosecutors from the case and grill them on these damning revelations.
Meanwhile, the courts must prevent Hunter’s plea deal from getting finalized as long as the integrity of this investigation (at least) remains a conspicuous joke.
