The IRS case agent who handled '95%' of the tax evidence in the Hunter Biden investigation told CBS News that he 'felt handcuffed' during the five-year probe and blocked from pursuing leads that he thought might implicate President Biden.
The Internal Revenue Service case agent who handled"95%" of the tax evidence in the Hunter Biden investigation told CBS News that he"felt handcuffed" during the five-year probe and blocked from pursuing leads that he thought might implicate Hunter Biden's father, President Joe Biden.
"I'm a Democrat. In the last presidential election, I actually did not vote," Ziegler said."I thought it would be irresponsible of me to do so because I didn't wanna show bias one way or the other."During an executive session in June, the Ways and Means committee voted to publicly release the transcripts from Shapley and Ziegler's whistleblower testimony, keeping Ziegler's identity hidden. The top minority member on the committee, Democratic Rep.
"David said to us…'I'm getting some concern from the Department of Justice Tax Division, the evidence that might come in related to his substance abuse and the death of his brother, Beau Biden, those might affect the jury's opinion'," Ziegler said. Both Ziegler and Shapely have told congressional investigators and CBS News they were told that prosecutors in Delaware were prevented from bringing charges in other jurisdictions — including California and Washington, D.C. — and Shapley said Weiss told him he was denied special counsel status by the Justice Department.
On Monday, after the Committee on Oversight and Accountability interviewed an FBI agent from the Wilmington Field Office, the leading Democrat on the committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, accused Republicans of"distort[ing]" evidence in order"to advance Republicans' false narrative about political interference in the Hunter Biden investigation.
"Anytime we potentially wanted to go down the road of asking questions related to the president, it was 'That's gonna take too much approvals. We can't ask those questions."
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