IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley testified Wednesday that the U.S. attorney for D.C., who was appointed by President Biden, had final say over whether charges would be brought against Hunter Biden and that the Biden appointee was the one who made the call not to charge the younger Biden with a felony.
Shapley, who worked as an IRS investigator for over ten years and oversaw the agency’s tax investigation into Hunter Biden, told the House Oversight Committee that despite Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss claiming he had ultimate authority over the investigation that in fact D.C. U.S. attorney Matthew Graves was in charge.
“After U.S. Attorney for D.C. Matthew Graves, appointed by President Biden, refused to bring charges, I watched Mr. Weiss tell a room full of senior FBI and IRS investigators on October 7, 2022, that he was ‘not the deciding person on whether charges are filed,’” Shapley said.
Graves’s wife, Fatima Gross Graves, has visited the White House at least 28 times since Biden took office. In the first three months of 2023 alone Graves, a vocal liberal activist, visited the White House ten times.
Weiss, meanwhile, has publicly flip-flopped over whether he had authority on when and whether to bring charges. He said in a June 7 letter to House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan that he did in fact have charging authority, but later walked back that claim in a second letter on June 30.
Jordan suggested during the hearing on Wednesday that the change was sparked by Shapley and another IRS whistleblower’s testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee being made public.
Shapley testified that during an October 2022 meeting Weiss said he was not the deciding person on whether or not charges were filed and that the U.S. attorney in D.C. had declined to allow charges to be filed.
“He told us that he had requested special counsel authority from main DOJ and was denied that authority,” Shapley testified.
Later that day, Shapley sent an email to his bosses in which he put in writing what had been discussed during the meeting with Weiss. One of Shapley’s bosses, the special agent in charge of the Washington, D.C., field office replied, “Thanks, Gary. You covered it all.”
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July 20, 2023, 08:07 PM
parabellum
I'm likin' all of this. Every day, every day, more and more. At some point, the left will no longer be able to deny all of this.
The Biden crime syndicate is crumbling. Everyone knows they are scum. People with integrity openly speak the truth. Liberals riding the fence don’t talk about it. The looney left either denies, ignores, or follows the time honored tactic of blaming their opposition as being somehow culpable. Their biggest lightning rod is of course, Trump.
“Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown
July 21, 2023, 07:41 AM
chellim1
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The Biden crime syndicate is crumbling. Everyone knows they are scum. People with integrity openly speak the truth.
Yes. At a minimum, Two-Scoops won't be running for re-election. I hope it goes much farther than that.
But they still have a Kamala problem. They know she would be a horrible candidate, so they don't want Two-Scoops to resign and make her the President and presumed leading candidate. Most of them want Gavin Newsom. Every day they wait to show 'ol Joe the exits is a day Kamala is NOT in that office. So, status quo. Drag it out.
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor
July 21, 2023, 07:53 AM
PASig
It warms my heart to see articles like this all over the news now, this tells me the long knives are out for Dementia Joe:
So why isnt Graves testifying to the judiciary committee about his decision?
Hedley Lamarr: Wait, wait, wait. I'm unarmed. Bart: Alright, we'll settle this like men, with our fists. Hedley Lamarr: Sorry, I just remembered . . . I am armed.
July 21, 2023, 10:35 AM
Pipe Smoker
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Originally posted by PASig: It warms my heart to see articles like this all over the news now, this tells me the long knives are out for Dementia Joe:
I see these stories on DailyMail, which I read every day. But I wonder if Joe Public, who reads his newspaper and watches TV news, is very aware of the massive corruption and ineptitude throughout the Biden administration.
Serious about crackers.
July 21, 2023, 01:17 PM
sdy
some snips from the FBI 1023
July 21, 2023, 01:20 PM
sdy
July 21, 2023, 02:16 PM
HRK
Ol joe would have been better off to let Pootain take over Ukraine and hopefully wipe out everyone and destroy the evidence.
Guess those billion dollar funds and military equipment were not enough to keep it quiet.
July 21, 2023, 03:30 PM
oddball
Here is Majorie Taylor Greene questioning Ziegler in regards to Hunter and his prostitute hobby (NSFW)
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
July 21, 2023, 11:19 PM
sdy
The White House has argued diversity gives the U.S. a "strategic advantage," while Republican critics have expressed concern that the Biden administration is more concerned about being "woke" than ensuring the military's effectiveness.
Diversity almost always means the best person was not chosen for the job
July 22, 2023, 11:23 AM
wcb6092
Hunter Biden's lawyer Kevin Morris is seen smoking a BONG on the balcony of his LA home while clearly visible from the road during a visit from the president's son.
Originally posted by wcb6092: Hunter Biden's lawyer Kevin Morris is seen smoking a BONG on the balcony of his LA home while clearly visible from the road during a visit from the president's son.
Dr. Cornel West is planning on teaching President Grandpa a lesson.
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Earlier this month, West told Fox News his third-party bid is as "serious as a heart attack" and doubled down on comments he made drawing into question Biden's compassion for the Black community.
Criticizing Biden's past relationships with segregationist Democratic senators, West mentioned Biden's praise for former Mississippi Sen. John Stennis, namesake of the NASA Space Center near Kiln, Mississippi. In 2008, Biden reportedly called his fellow Democrat "a hell of a guy."
More recently, Biden regaled supporters at a 2019 fundraiser of his time working with Stennis' fellow Mississippian James Eastland and then-Sen. Herman Talmadge, D-Ga., who supported segregation.
"I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland. He never called me ‘boy.' He always called me ‘son’," Biden quipped of the senator who once warned against "mongrelization."
Biden was rebuked at the time by fellow Democrat Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, who said in a statement obtained by the Daily Mail, "You don't joke about calling Black men ‘boys.'"
On "Hannity," West confirmed he is accusing Biden of "crimes against humanity" against African Americans, as reported by the New York Post.
