Whistleblowers in Hunter Biden case to testify before Congress, alleging obstruction from DOJ

The two whistleblowers alleging the Justice Department interfered with an investigation into Hunter Biden will give their first public testimony before Congress on Wednesday.

The leaders of the House's Judiciary and committees will conduct a hearing with the two IRS employees, Greg Shapley and an unnamed man known as “whistleblower x.”

Both men claim there was a pattern of “slow-walking investigative steps” into first son Hunter Biden, in the months before the 2020 election.

Both IRS agents were assigned to the investigation into Biden, which focused on tax and gun charges. The anonymous “whistleblower x” is expected to have his identity revealed at the hearing, according to AP News.

The congressional inquiry into the Justice Department’s case against Biden started last month, days after he agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax offenses in an agreement with federal prosecutors.

The House Ways and Means Committee voted to publicly release hundreds of pages of testimony from the IRS employees, where they described several obstacles agents on the case faced when trying to issue search warrants or interview people relevant to the case.

Shapley’s claim that Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, the federal prosecutor who led the investigation, asked for special counsel status in order to bring the tax cases against Biden in jurisdictions outside Delaware, was one of the more notable accusations made against the president’s son.

Weiss and the Justice Department have denied Shapley’s claims.

Republicans issued a series of requests for voluntary testimony from Weiss and other senior officials at the Justice Department, FBI and IRS. They also requested a special counsel review of an alleged retaliation against the whistleblowers.

Weiss wrote he would be happy to testify before the committee when he is legally able to share information with Congress without discussing an ongoing investigation, in a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) earlier this month.

Justice Department officials could testify after Hunter Biden appears for his plea hearing next week.