🚨IRS Whistleblower Testimony: Summary🚨 PART ONE
1: He starts by making it clear he is non-political and has a mixed voting record. He's never contributed to anyone politically, nor does he participate in politics.
2: He often votes for both R's and D's. (1)
3: He is a New Yorker with multiple awards from the IRS and DOJ. He was the Special Agent in charge of the Chicago Field Office.
4: In his tenure, he has recovered over 3.5 billion dollars for the IRS (including using undercover ops to do so).
(2)
5: His claim is primarily against the Delaware US Attorney's Office, Department of Justice Tax, and Department of Justice for providing preferential treatment and "unchecked conflicts of interest" in the investigation of Hunter Biden. (3)
6: Also claims the investigation was nearly killed several times and was purposefully "slow walked".
7: Claims in his 14 years on the job, this investigation was "entirely different" than any he had ever worked on in the past. (4)
8: The case was given a code name: Sportsman, and he became the supervisor of the case in January of 2020.
9: His first steps by March 6th 2020 were to seek approval for physical search warrants in California, Arkansas, New York and Washington DC. (5)
10: He also planned at least 15 interviews at that time.
11: In April, Joe Biden became the presumptive Dem nominee for President, and career DOJ officials began dragging their feet to take those investigative steps. (6)
12: By June 2020, those same officials were delaying "overt investigative actions".
13: He reported to the IRS Dir. of Field ops that it was being unusually slow walked, but their Dir. decided they would defer to the DOJ. (7)
14: From Oct. 2020 to Oct. 2022, he was the person who interacted directly with US Attorney David Weiss.
15: Even though investigative and enforcement actions were blocked by the DOJ leading up to the 2020 election, he continued to obtain further leads. (8)
16: It was during this time that a search warrant was allowed for an icloud account which returned the "I'm sitting here with my father" message.
17: Even with that, he was denied a request to go further in that direction or to obtain location info. (9)
18: Sept. 3, 2020 Asst. US Attorney Lesley Wolf told him that there was "more than enough" probable cause for a search warrant of the Biden's Delaware gust house, but "the question is whether the juice was worth the squeeze". (10)
19: She continued that "optics" were a driving factor in the decision. She said a lot of evidence would be found in the former VP guest house but "there is no way we will get that approved".
20: Investigators began requesting to remove Hunter's name from search warrants. (11)
21: Agents said this was not normal or ethical, but the concerns were ignored.
22: Justice Tax Line Attorney Jack Morgan stated that by doing it without Hunter's name they could get "most" of what they need. He had never heard anyone say "most" was sufficient. (12)
23: Sept. 3 2020, Lesly Wolf stated that a search warrant for the emails of Blue Star Strategies was being "sat on", and that it would likely not get approved. This killed the FARA aspect of the investigation. (13)
24: On Sept. 4 2020, Deputy Attorney General Donoghue issued a "cease and desist of all overt investigative activities due to the coming election".
25: Wolf commented that the "DOJ was under fire and it was self-inflicted" and that the DOJ needed to repair the situation. (14)
26: Sept. 21 2020 the FBI told him that they could only do 5 of the 15 interviews they had planned.
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27: The same day he learned the FBI Case Agent had moved back to Wilmington DE and was "concerned about the consequences for him and his family if the interviews were conducted or if the guest house search warrant was executed." (16)
28: Oct. 22, 2020 a meeting was had to discuss the continued delay of access to Hunter Biden's laptop by the FBI. Wolf said "Prosecutors decided to keep it from the (IRS) investigators".
(17)
29: Wolf does say there is no reason to believe the device had been manipulated by any third party, and stated this belief was based on the fact they "corroborated data with other sources of information received."
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30: On the same day, Weiss agreed all probable cause for the search warrant on the guest house had been achieved BUT they would not allow a physical search warrant on Hunter Biden. (19)
31: On June 16th 2020, he and the Case Agent made an appleal to the Director of Field Operations. 👇 (20)
32: Because the election was contested, the plan to go overt on Nov 17 was delayed by USAG Weiss on Nov 10. Weiss said (clearly to make inaction look good) that since there were no leaks, the integrity of the investigation had been protected. 🤦♂️(21)
33: Dec. 3 2020 Weiss congratulates the team for keeping the investigations a "secret". During this meeting AUSA Wolf states there will be no mention of "dad" or "the big guy" during any interview of Rob Walker. (22)
34: After she said this multiple people raised objections to which Wolf responded, "There's no specific criminality to that line of questioning". (23)
35: The FBI agents agreed to skirt Wolf's command without telling her. They developed a plan to surprise Hunter in LA for an interview. The night before on Dec. 7, 2020, FBI HQ had notified SS and the presidential transition team about the action. (24)
36: Instead of speaking to Hunter after waiting outside his home all day, they received a call that Hunter would only speak to them through his attorneys. The attorneys contacted them and said they could not speak with their client. (CONT In New TWEET)
🚨IRS Whistleblower Testimony: Summary🚨 PART TWO
37: The FBI does interview Rob Walker and attempts to omit mention of "dad" or "big guy". Walker claims Bobulinksi exaggerated the "10%" thing and to his knowledge Joe was never involved in that deal. (1)
38: Walker does however admit that Hunter would have his dad drop in on important meetings. Also that his dad did meet with CEFC and with other business partners while he was VP and after. (2)
39: Weiss agrees on Dec 14th to execute the search warrant on a Virginia storage unit "if the unit wasn't accessed for 30 days". The same day, AUSA Wold informed Hunter's defense counsel of the impending search. (3)
40: Similar to the Trump case, but with an obviously different outcome, some documents were turned over allegedly from that unit, but "to this day I have no way of knowing if the documents from that unit were among those ultimately provided to our team". (4)
41: Bizarrely, considering recent actions against Trump, the investigation was constantly slowed by the DOJ for "concerns about potential election meddling". (5)
42: The IRS Unit discovered potential campaign finance crime violations but AUSA Wolf stated she "did not want any of the agents to look into the allegation". (6)
43: She also stated in regards to that line of investigation that "we could not yet prove an allegation beyond a reasonable double" and that she "does not want to include their Public Integrity Unit because they would take away authority from her". (7)
44: They went ahead and sent what charges they had to CT Counsel Line Attorney Christine Steinbrunner who concurred with all the charges. The charges were sent back by Rick Lunger and Elizabeth Hadden asking her to change her statement to "nonconcur". (8)
45: Shocked, he went to Steinbrunner's supervisor who said it had always been "nonconcur". When Steinbrunner was asked directly she stated that was untrue and it appeared Ms. Luthra was not being honest. (9)
46: Around Feb. 25th 2022, a 90 page memo is authored recommending prosecution of Hunter Biden for the charges they had built based on the limited DOJ participation. (10)
47: Days later Mark Daly called the case agent and told him that President Biden had appointed Matthew Graves as USAG for D.C., that he had personally reviewed the report and did not support it. (11)
48: Around this time AG Garland begins testifying to Congress and his statements are in direct conflict with what the WB knows to be happening in real time on the ground. (12)
49: A summary of the next few months would be that Weiss would claim to be asking for jurisdictional support to charge in different states and he was being denied. Garland would testify that would and could not happen. (13)
50: The statute of limitations was running out on the 2014 tax year. Even defense counsel had offered to sign and extension. But Weiss claimed because he had "no ability to charge", the DOJ allowed the statute of limitations to expire. (14)
51: The FBI agent Joe Gordon then tells him that the IRS should ask for a special counsel. The WB's boss says "I wouldn't even know how to go about that". (15)
52: Now the DOJ begins to ask for unusual items from the IRS agents. Not just the case agent communications (which is normal) but the management communications (which is unheard of). (16)
53: It appears to the WB that they are doing this to find out if the IRS had been criticizing the DOJ investigation, which was clearly outside the scope of any email request. (17)
54: The DOJ attempted to slow walk the case again as the midterms were about to take place. This is when defense counsel tells the DOJ team that if they charge Hunter Bide, they would be committing "career suicide". (18)
55: Since the DC case was denied by a recent Biden appointee, the team decided to focus on California. They prepared their recommendation for charges in mid-September 2022. (19)
56: This coincided with Biden appointing USAG Martin Estrada. In Jan. 2023 Estrada declined to bring charges against Hunter Biden against the recommendations of the IRS and DOJ team. (20)
57: David Weiss tells the team that since he was denied in DC, he has asked for "special counsel authority" to deal with jurisdictional challenges but was denied by the DOJ leadership, and to use the normal process, answering to another Biden appointee. (21)
58: Finally the statute of limitations runs out for tax years 2014 and 2015 completely. Also, California declined to charge for 2016 through 2019. (22)
59: He requests a meeting with Weiss and expresses his concerns about how the case has been handled from the beginning. The meeting was "contentious and ended quite awkwardly". (23)
60: After this the DOJ either stopped scheduling prosecution team meetings or stopped inviting the IRS to them. (24)
61: At this point retaliatory and harassing actions begin to occur agains the WB. Promotions denied. Isolated. Increased scrutiny. etc. Garland continues to misrepresent to Congress the situation. (END)
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