Ex-federal prosecutor in Hunter Biden case dodges House queries on probe

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for Delaware Lesley Wolf last week sat for an interview with the House Judiciary Committee during which she largely refused to answer questions on the years-long investigation of first son Hunter Biden's taxes.

Committee Chairman Jim Jordan last month issued a subpoena demanding that she appear for the interview. Throughout the questioning, she routinely asserted that the Department of Justice had not authorized her to speak to a litany of pertinent matters, including many of her interactions with investigators during the case.

Wolf was identified as a key figure in limiting the investigators' activities and lines of inquiry by IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, both of whom worked on the case. The pair further alleged that Biden-appointed officials had worked to stifle the worst charges against the first son, including by allowing the statute of limitations to expire on key potential tax charges.

While Wolf largely declined to answer most of the Committee's questions, according to a transcript of the interview reviewed by Just the News, she did assert that prosecutors generally would not permit the statute of limitations on a potential charge to expire by accident.

During one exchange, Wolf indicated that the Department of Justice lacked formal guidance on the expiration of such statutes, saying that, in general, responsibility for working within that timeframe would fall on the line prosecutor in the case.

"As a general matter, as a prosecutor, you have some sense of what the statute is, and if you're coming up on a statute of limitations, you’re aware of it," she said. "It would be the line prosecutors handling the case to be aware of the statute of limitations."

"So if the statute of limitations is about to expire and it does expire, it's not by mistake. Is that a fair thing to say?" one questioner asked Wolf, to which she replied. "I think yeah. As a general matter, I would say that is accurate. I am quite sure that on occasion it happens. But as a general matter, you're aware of the statute and when it’s due to run."

Wolf mostly refused to answer further questions related to the case, including those on the terms of a defunct plea agreement that now-special counsel David Weiss had offered the first son and the scope Weiss's pre-elevation prosecuting authority. She further insisted that the DOJ followed standard protocol in the investigation.

Ben Whedon is an editor and reporter for Just the News. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter.