[tomder55]

A rare example of journalism integrity and honest reporting can oly mean one thing . They are getting ready to throw Quid under the bus .

The whole report by CBS included .

IRS whistleblower testimony reveals sweeping misconduct in the Hunter Biden investigation - CBS News


Meanwhile Head of the IRS investigative unit from 2001-2007 wrote an op-ed in the WSJ saying that the plea deal made in the Hunter Biden case should be thrown out on July 26 by the judge who will preside over the case

IRS special agents are the agency’s criminal investigators. They are the best in the world at tracking down the proceeds of crime. Because of this, they are frequently invited by other federal law-enforcement agencies to participate in matters far removed from tax crimes. They work hand-in-glove with assistant U.S. attorneys and Justice Department tax prosecutors to obtain search warrants and other authorizations necessary to explore leads.
The IRS opened its investigation into Hunter Biden in November 2018 as an offshoot of an investigation it was conducting of a foreign-based amateur online pornography platform. In October 2019 the Federal Bureau of Investigation learned of certain devices, including laptops, that had been abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop. According to Mr. Shapley, FBI agents had confirmed within weeks that the devices belonged to Mr. Biden and that their contents were authentic. After taking possession of the devices in December 2019, FBI agents notified the IRS that they likely contained evidence of tax crimes. Notwithstanding this notification and that the FBI had legitimate possession of the devices and unfettered access to their contents, Mr. Shapley’s testimony describes how prosecutors never permitted the IRS special agents to examine them.
This is only one of the roadblocks the whistleblowers claim prosecutors threw in the way of their investigation into Mr. Biden’s financial dealings. The IRS special agents testified that they requested and were denied permission to search the guest house at Joe Biden’s Delaware mansion and the storage locker Hunter Biden maintained in Northern Virginia. The whistleblowers claim they had reason to believe they would find records in those locations of at least some of the numerous pass-through entities that reportedly served as conduits for illicit and likely unreported payments to Hunter Biden and possibly other members of his family.
Federal rules provide that the government generally must prosecute an offense in the district in which it was committed. Charges brought in an improper venue can be dismissed. U.S. attorneys are the chief federal law enforcement officers for their districts. When a U.S. attorney discovers crimes that need to be charged in another district, he generally transfers the case and, if necessary, details some of his own staff to handle it.

By June 2021, Mr. Weiss’s prosecution team had gathered enough evidence to understand that Delaware wasn’t the proper venue in which to prosecute Hunter Biden’s tax crimes. Crimes allegedly committed in 2014 and 2015 would have to be charged in the District of Columbia and those allegedly committed 2016-19 would have to be charged in the Central District of California.
According to the whistleblowers’ testimony, the U.S. attorneys in the capital and Central California refused Mr. Weiss’s requests to charge Hunter Biden in their districts. Mr. Shapley testified that Mr. Weiss then asked “Main DOJ” to name him special counsel and was denied—possibly not for the first time. In March testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee the attorney general said that although he hadn’t made Mr. Weiss special counsel, he had given Mr. Weiss all the authority he needed to bring charges in any district he deemed appropriate.
But on Oct. 7, 2022, Mr. Shapley claims, Mr. Weiss declared in a meeting of the prosecution team that in fact he wasn’t the final decision maker with respect to charges that might be brought against Hunter Biden. It was this statement that shocked and troubled Mr. Shapley such that he braved the consequences of becoming a whistleblower and sought legal counsel on how to do so.
The Justice Department’s alleged foot-dragging and refusal to permit IRS special agents to follow the evidence allowed the statutes of limitations for 2014 and 2015 to expire, notwithstanding that Mr. Biden’s defense counsel had, according to Mr. Shapley, agreed to more than one extension. Far worse, Mr. Garland’s failure to designate Mr. Weiss a special counsel essentially guaranteed that Mr. Biden wouldn’t be prosecuted for any of his alleged tax crimes.
The “criminal information”—the charging document in the absence of an indictment—prepared by Mr. Weiss’s office, to which Hunter Biden will reportedly plead on July 26, states that Mr. Biden received but didn’t pay federal taxes on “taxable income in excess of $1,500,000.00” in 2017 and in 2018. House Oversight Committee Republicans claim to have seen Treasury Department suspicious-activity reports suggesting that Mr. Biden received vastly more than that during the years the IRS was investigating.
Judges can reject plea agreements. That would be an appropriate disposition here. And Congress, in fulfillment of its oversight obligation, must learn and share with the American public what evidence the IRS gathered, what evidence its agents weren’t permitted to obtain, and what charges might have been brought if they had.

Throw Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal in the Trash - WSJ

[tomder55]

and now a word from Quid Pro Joe

"I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things"

Shock: Biden said "I sold a lot of State Secrets and a lot of very important things..". - YouTube


Will leave the fact that he forgot he was speaking with India's PM Narendra Modi. He says he was joking . But the best comedy works because there is truth behind it.

[jlisenbe]

What a clear-headed pres we have. "I was just thinking...uh, uh...anyway."

[tomder55]

BAM and just like that Maureen Dowd of the Slimes throws Clueless Joe under the bus.

Maureen Dowd: Joe Biden’s treatment of his seventh grandchild is callous and hypocritical – The Irish Times

More to come as the Dems realize that they have to dump him or risk having Kam the Sham lead the ticket.

[tomder55]

a second IRS whistleblower is giving testimony to Congress today . No one cares Not here . Not on the compiant press and not here . I give up

[jlisenbe]

Don't speak too soon. I've been keeping up with it between mowing grass, preparing for a Bible study tonight, and getting ready to visit my friend in the nursing home. I just don't have much hope for it. People don't really care, or at least they don't seem to.

Of what I have listened to, the plaintive bleating of the liberal sheep in their incessant complaining about a supposed two-tiered justice system that works against, they say, black individuals becomes old in a hurry.

[jlisenbe]

Still waiting for a dem to actually ask a question rather than pontificating on subjects not really connected to the hearing.

[tomder55]

AMHD doesn't work for me anymore. I'm considering moving on .

[jlisenbe]

It is difficult to have conversations when there are basically only two people active and we are looking at things from essentially the same perspective, but I do really enjoy your posts and find them to be very informative. I don't always comment since I don't follow much of this to the same degree that you do, but the information is very useful.

[tomder55]

yes difficult . . Contributors like Excon ;tal and Athos forced me to check my premise on many issues That is a good thing.

[jlisenbe]

Contributors like Excon ;tal and Athos forced me to check my premise on many issues

I suppose that's one way of describing it.

[tomder55]

Either Ziegler and Shapley are lying ;or Weiss, Wray ,and Garland are . I'll let Zeigler's testimony stand for itself.
Special Agent & Whistleblower Joseph Ziegler Opening Statement - YouTube

In August of 2022, we had a phone call with all of the assigned prosecutors and they had said that all four of them were recommending the approval of felony and misdemeanor tax charges,

[tomder55]

Now there is credible testimony that .....
Hunter should've had felony charges before the statute of limitations and before the 2020 elections

Hunter spent lavishly on prostitutes and sex clubs from a corporate account. He also funded his adult children's education through the account. He filed false returns . Those included a deduction to payments to his 'West Coast assistant ' who was actually a prostitute ;and to a golf club that was actually a sex club.

That investigators were warned off from interviewing his children.

That investigators were warned off from investigating his 'WhatsApp' messages that prove Quid Pro Joe was directly involved in the corruption.

That 7 digit figure payouts were made to the Biden crime family from China ;Ukraine ;and Romania .
CEFC China Energy, a company linked to the Chinese Communist Party, made a total of $6.7 million in payments to Hunter. Burisma Holdings paid $6.5 million to Hunter. Romanian oligarch Gabriel Popoviciu, under investigation for bribery, paid another $3.1 million to Hunter

Hunter reported no income from Ukraine even though Burisma paid him $80,000 /month .

[jlisenbe]

What is disappointing is that the people who have pulled their hair out concerning Trump's legal difficulties, including some on this site, are eerily quiet concerning this garbage truck load of illegal activity. The media has largely ignored it, and the dems who spoke yesterday could not have been any less concerned.

Hunter reported no income from Ukraine even though Burisma paid him $80,000 /month .

I wonder what would happen if you or I pulled that stunt?

[tomder55]

probably a no knock search and a seizure of our assets .

The spin you will begin to hear is that this hearing is in the wake of a probable 3rd Trump indictment . The compliant press is already putting out the narrative that the only chance Trump has is for the Repubs to convince the public that Clueless has weaponized the Federal Government .

[jlisenbe]

Isn't it amazing that, in their minds, everything points to Trump? How about just considering the issue of whether or not HB received preferential treatment since daddy is the pres?

[jlisenbe]

Another hole in the hull of the U.S.S. Hunter Biden.

Joe Biden and Hunter Biden allegedly "coerced" Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky to pay them millions of dollars in exchange for their help in getting the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the company fired, according to allegations contained in an unclassified FBI document released Thursday by Sen. Chuck Grassley.
Grassley said he released the document, which describes an alleged criminal bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a Ukrainian business executive, so that the American people can "read this document for themselves without the filter of politicians or bureaucrats."
The document in question is an FBI-generated FD-1023 form, which Grassley, R-Iowa, acquired via legally protected disclosures by Justice Department whistleblowers, according to the Senator's office.

[tomder55]

'well son of a b*tch ! '


User Clip: Biden Tells Story of Getting the Ukraine Prosecutor Fired | C-SPAN.org

[tomder55]

Here is the FD1023 CHS is confidential human source .

FD 1023_Senator Grassley_FINAL (senate.gov)

[jlisenbe]

It certainly raises the possibility that Biden will simply not run for a second term.