Republicans denounce bias in Congress in the case of Joe Biden’s son

Republican legislators tried on Wednesday in the US Congress to expose, with the testimony of two tax agents, alleged pressure from the government of Joe Biden to judicial investigations against the president’s son.

Opponents of the 80-year-old Democratic president claimed unfair treatment when Hunter Biden he reached a plea deal in June to avoid prison time for failing to pay taxes and false statements on a firearms application in 2017 and 2018.

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He House Oversight Committeeled by the Republicans, heard from the two tax officials who accused the Justice Department of “go slow“in the case in order to exhaust the deadlines of some possible charges, as well as to put Biden Jr. “on track for a benevolent plea deal”.

One of the complainants, the supervisor of the Internal Revenue Service Gary Shaleysaid that the Justice Department avoided building a larger case in the investigation against Hunter Biden, 53, although the prosecutor David Weiss he denied.

Shapley said Weiss, a federal prosecutor based in Delaware and appointed in 2018 by the then president donald trumpdenied the status of “special counselor” which could allow him to present more serious accusations in Washington and California.

The supervisor alleges that Weiss said in a meeting in October 2022 that he was not authorized to make final decisions on the charges in the case.

Shapley, who first raised the allegations before another legislative committee earlier this year, cited multiple times he said prosecutors expressed doubts about taking actions that could influence the 2020 election.

The other complainant Joseph Zieglerspecial agent of the Internal Revenue Service for 13 years in the Criminal Investigation Unitendorsed Shapley’s concerns.

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However, the case made by the Republicans has been undermined by repeated denials of the accusations. Parts of the complaint were made in 2020, when Trump was still president.

Hunter Biden, who has admitted to having drug problems, is the only surviving child from President Joe Biden’s first marriage, which ended tragically in 1972 when his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident.

He is due in court on July 26 after pleading guilty to two federal tax charges and admitting to illegal possession of a gun despite his history of drug use.

Source: Elcomercio

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