Delaware prosecutor Lesley Wolf subpoenaed by House Judiciary Committee after allegations she blocked Hunter Biden investigation

On Tuesday, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan subpoenaed Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf, who had a key role in the Department of Justice’s investigation into Hunter Biden.

According to the Washington Examiner, Wolf is required to appear for a deposition before the committee on December 7.

In the letter to Wolf, Jordan noted that the committee has repeatedly written to Attorney General Merrick Garland that Wolf and other Department of Justice officials be allowed to sit for transcribed interviews, but the department has not complied with the requests. The department eventually allowed six employees to sit for these interviews, but Wolf was not one of them.

"Based on the Committee’s investigation to date, it is clear that you possess specialized and unique information that is unavailable to the Committee through other sources and without which the Committee’s inquiry would be incomplete," Jordan wrote.

"Witness testimony and public reporting indicates that as an Assistant US Attorney for the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware, you were directly involved in that office’s investigation of Hunter Biden, which deviated from standard investigative procedures."

Jordan noted that whistleblower testimony said Wolf had attended a large majority of the prosecution team meetings regarding the Hunter Biden investigation, and that information available to the committee suggested that she is "responsible for many of the decisions to deviate from standard investigative protocol during the Department’s investigation of Hunter Biden" which included telling defense counsel about a potential search warrant for Hunter Biden’s abandoned storage unit and later objecting to this warrant, prohibiting investigators from asking witnesses about "the big guy," ordering investigators ro remove "Political Figure 1," Joe Biden, from search warrants, and prohibiting investigators from "following up on evidence of criminal campaign finance violations."

"Given your central role in the Department’s investigation of Hunter Biden, you are uniquely situated to advance not only the Committee’s oversight and inform potential legislative reforms, as discussed further below, but also the Committee’s impeachment inquiry," Jordan wrote.

Jordan said that the Department of Justice’s reasons for not allowing Wolf to provide testimony are "unpersuasive," with the department claiming that it’s longstanding policy not to make non-Senate-confirmed and live-level Justice Department employees available for interviews prohibit this.

"As we have repeatedly informed the Department, this claim is factually, legally, and historically inaccurate. Congressional committees have regularly received testimony from non-Senate confirmed and line-level Justice Department employees."

Jordan later added, "Further, the Committee rejects the Department’s amorphous assertion that an 'ongoing investigation' prohibits Congress from exercising its Constitutional oversight obligations. As the Department well knows, there is no 'ongoing investigation' privilege codified in statute or recognized by the courts."

Jordan said that the Supreme Court has recognized that Congress has a "broad and indispensable" power to conduct oversight, and that the high court has recognized Congress may seek information from the Executive Branch about "corruption, maladministration or inefficiency in agencies of the Government.'"

"Finally, as part of the impeachment inquiry, the Committee is investigating whether President Biden 'abuse[d] his power as President to impede, obstruct, or otherwise hinder investigations (including Congressional investigations) or the prosecution of Hunter Biden.' Given your critical role you played in the investigation of Hunter Biden, you are uniquely situated to shed light on whether President Biden played any role in the Department’s investigation and whether he attempted, in any way, to directly or indirectly obstruct either that investigation or our investigation."

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer told Newsmax that "all roads lead to Lesley Wolf."

"We know the IRS was investigating the Bidens, that was halted and the road leads to Lesley Wolf," Comer said. "We know the FBI was investigating the Bidens and all roads lead to Lesley Wolf calling that off.

"We know other U.S. attorneys were looking into the Biden corruption and by all accounts, Lesley Wolf called that off. We know that the National Archives was looking into the Bidens' mishandling of classified documents, and they were told by someone in the Department of Justice to stand down, to not cooperate with the House Oversight Committee [and myself], and we believe that person was Lesley Wolf," he said.