Three House committees to work together to investigate DOJ interference in Hunter Biden probe

In a rare and powerful collaboration, three House committees will work together to investigate whistleblower claims that the Justice Department took extraordinary steps to interfere in the criminal tax investigation of President Joe Biden's son, Rep. Jim Jordan told Just the News on Thursday evening.

Jordan, R-Ohio, said the Judiciary Committee he chairs will work along side the Oversight Committee led by Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., and the House Ways and Means Committee led by Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., to demand transcribed interviews from three U.S. Attorneys, DOJ tax division lawyers and FBI and IRS agents who worked the Hunter Biden case. The three sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding access to the witnesses.

"I think the Attorney General, and (Delaware U.S. Attorney) David Weiss and some of these other people that we've now asked to talk to, we're looking forward to getting the chance to interview those and see what they have to say," Jordan said during an appearance on the "Just the News, No Noise" television show.

The investigatory collaboration was prompted by explosive whistleblower testimony from IRS Supervisory Agent Gary Shapley that was released last week by the Ways and Means Committee.

Shapley led the team in the tax investigation of Hunter Biden and alleged to Congress there was significant and unusual political interference in the probe that included the denial of search warrants, the blocking of witnesses and questions and decisions by the Biden-appointed U.S. attorneys in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles to refuse to prosecute Hunter Biden on serious tax felonies dating to 2014 that had been recommended by career prosecutors.

In an interview with the John Solomon Reports podcast aired Thursday, Shapley and his lawyers elaborated on his congressional testimony, saying Hunter Biden failed to declare about $8.2 million in income and pay $2.2 million in federal taxes between 2014 and 2019, including foreign monies from the controversial Burisma Holdings energy firm in Ukraine.

"It's a pretty classic tax evasion scheme, and it was it was for the purpose of not paying taxes on this income," Shapley said, alleging Hunter Biden disguised income as loans at least related to Burisma in 2014.

Jordan said lawmakers found Shapley, a decorated 14-year veteran of major IRS cases, to be credible and his contemporaneous evidence that he gave Congress raise serious questions about the veracity of Garland's earlier testimony that Delaware prosecutor Weiss did not face interference and could bring the charges he wanted against Hunter Biden.

"Somebody's not telling the truth. And it sure doesn't look like it's the whistleblower," Jordan told Just the News.. "I think he's with the IRS like 14 years. He is credible, I think, in so many ways. He handled some of the biggest international tax fraud cases at the agency. So the things he's told us just do not correspond with what Merrick Garland said.

"Mr. Shapley was recording these after meetings, contemporaneously putting this down and memorializing this, putting this into memos, sending these emails to some of his other agents on the case. So I think he seems very, very credible, and a strong whistleblower, a strong witness," the chairman added.

Jordan said lawmakers have particular interest in a federal prosecutor named Leslie Wolf, who was identified by Shapley and a second IRS whistleblower as having told agents all the way in 2020 they couldn't take certain steps to investigate Hunter Biden or Joe Biden. 

"She's the one who said, you know, cancel the search warrant that they were wanting to do," Jordan said. "She's the one who said you can't ask when you're interviewing people. You can't ask about President Biden, you can't use the term the 'Big Guy.'"

Justice Department officials did not return a call Thursday night seeking comment.