IRS investigators wanted to charge Hunter Biden with far more serious crimes, including tax evasion and felonies, than what the first son has agreed to plead guilty to. The Internal Revenue Service pushed for Hunter to be slapped with tax evasion and filing a false tax return for 2014, 2018, and 2019, respectively.
According to the transcripts of the private interviews with lawmakers, the IRS also urged the prosecutors to charge President Joe Biden’s son with failing to pay taxes on time, a misdemeanor from 2015 through to 2018. Several Justice Department prosecutors supported this 11-count charging recommendation.
This revelation comes after Hunter Biden agreed to plead guilty to two federal misdemeanor crimes of willfully failing to pay federal income taxes. He agreed, as per a filing by prosecutors in U.S. District Court in Delaware, to enter a pretrial diversion agreement related to a federal felony charge of possession of a gun by a person who is a user or addict of illegal drugs. Hunter also faces a GOP-led congressional investigation about the Biden family’s shady business deals.
The Ways and Means Committee, in a press statement, said the American people have the right to know that when it comes to criminal enforcement, they are not on the same playing field as the wealthy and politically connected class. Rep. Jason Smith, the committee chair, highlighted the preferential treatment of the US president’s son saying that it would never have been granted to ordinary Americans.
He said whistleblowers have exposed the reality – the Biden government intervened and overstepped the investigations to protect Hunter Biden by delaying, divulging, and denying an ongoing probe into the first son’s alleged tax crimes. The committee alleged the Justice Department delayed investigations long enough to reach the statute of limitations. And there’s evidence they shared sensitive information with Biden’s attorneys, and turned down requests by the U.S. Attorney to bring charges against Hunter.
Smith claimed that U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf told investigators there is no way a search warrant for Joe Biden’s guest house, when he was the country’s vice president, would be approved. He also said Hunter’s attorneys were tipped off about the searches beforehand.
U.S. federal authorities have been looking into Hunter since 2018, but investigations were paused ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The spotlight fell on this probe when Joe Biden secured the presidency in December 2020.
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