Two IRS whistleblowers who allege the Justice Department interfered with an investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes will testify publicly for the first time 1 p.m. Wednesday before the House Judiciary, Oversight and Ways and Means Committees.
Republican lawmakers claim that the whistleblowers’ testimony will reveal that the Department of Justice (DOJ) applies the law unequally when it comes to the Biden family.
The House Ways and Means Committee originally released testimonies from the two whistleblowers in late June.
One of the IRS whistleblowers is Gary Shapley, who served as the supervisor on the federal investigation into Hunter Biden by the IRS — the second whistleblower is anonymous.
According to the whistleblowers, the DOJ provided Hunter Biden with “preferential treatment, slow-walked the investigation, [and] did nothing to avoid obvious conflict of interest in this investigation.”
They also claim that federal prosecutors prohibited lines of questioning that mentioned President Joe Biden, and that the U.S. attorney from Delaware in charge of the investigation, David Weiss, was blocked by DOJ higher-ups from bringing charges in multiple districts.
Shapley is expected to testify that the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office was slow to execute search warrants or in some cases never pursued them, and that Weiss told him that he was “not the deciding person on whether charges are filed.”
Shapley will also testify about the WhatsApp message Hunter Biden allegedly sent to a Chinese businessman as part of a shakedown where he claimed his father, then-Vice President Biden, was in the room with him.
According to Shapley, prosecutors would not allow the IRS agents to follow up on the information in this WhatsApp message, as well as other messages between Hunter Biden and Chinese energy executives.
This hearing comes as a former FBI supervisory agent assigned to the Hunter Biden probe confirmed key parts of the two whistleblowers’ testimonies in his own testimony before the House Oversight Committee Monday.
