The investigators on the Hunter Biden criminal case were not allowed to follow up on a number of leads or interview relevant people, significantly hindering their investigations, according to the IRS whistleblowers.
IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley said he was blocked from following up on Biden’s WhatsApp messages, in which he invoked his father’s name and pressured foreign business associates to give him money.
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“Investigators were not allowed to follow up on WhatsApp messages from Hunter Biden’s Apple iCloud backup, where he suggested he was sitting next to his father,” Shapley said.
The text message referenced was sent on July 30, 2017, to Chinese businessman Henry Zhao, the chairman of China’s Harvest Fund, in which he leveraged his father’s name and threatened CEFC executives unless a lucrative deal was worked out with Ye Jianming, the chairman of CEFC, the Chinese energy company with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
“I am sitting with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment has not been fulfilled,” Biden told Zhao in one of the messages. “I am very concerned that [Ye] has either changed his mind and broken our deal without telling me or that he is unaware of the promises and assurances that have been made have not been kept.”
The messages allegedly resulted in millions of dollars being routed to Biden’s bank accounts.
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Shapley said the other IRS whistleblower, agent Joe Ziegler, asked to follow up on the messages and that the request was “not supported by the prosecutor.”
The investigators also wanted to interview Biden’s adult children but were told they would be in “hot water” if they approached them.
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Ziegler said the IRS needed to talk to Biden’s adult children because it was necessary to the investigation because of listed deductions on Biden’s tax returns.
“There’s some special situation that might come up that might cause caution to interviewing that witness, but I’ve never been told that you couldn’t approach someone to interview them as a part of an investigation,” Ziegler said.
