Delaware US Attorney who misrepresented Hunter Biden probe will testify before Congress

David Weiss, the US Attorney for Delaware who oversaw the federal probe into Hunter Biden's alleged tax and gun crimes, has been granted permission by the Justice Department to testify before Congress regarding an alleged cover-up in the investigation following explosive whistleblower testimony.

On Friday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) demanded that Weiss, along with multiple officials within the Justice Department, testify before Congress in regard to the alleged federal interference that occurred during Hunter Biden's criminal investigation.



Assistant Attorney General Carlos Felipe Uriarte sent a letter to Rep. Jordan on Monday stating that the department will allow Weiss to testify, according to New York Post.
 

“The Department is ready to offer U.S. Attorney Weiss to testify shortly after Congress returns from the August district work period," Uriarte wrote in the letter to Jordan.

The letter added that the Department of Justice "believes it is strongly in the public interest for the American people and for Congress to hear directly from U.S. Attorney Weiss on these assertions and questions about his authority at a public hearing." However, the letter failed to mention whether or not other DOJ employees were granted permission to give testimony.

The letter is in response to the three committee chairmen that had threatened to issue subpoenas if Attorney General Merrick Garland refused to make the "voluntary" choice to let Weiss and other DOJ employees testify before Congress.

Speaking before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday afternoon, Joseph Ziegler, a 13-year veteran of the IRS, and IRS whistleblower Gary Shapely provided testimony to Congress about Hunter Biden's alleged shady foreign business dealings and the Department of Justice's alleged attempt to coverup the First Son's crimes.

Ziegler said that David Weiss, Delaware US Attorney, wrote in a recent letter to Congress that he had been granted "ultimate authority over this matter, but then later stated in the same letter that his charging authority is geographically limited, and that he would need a President Biden-appointed US attorney to partner with him in charging the case," said Ziegler. 

Weiss has suggested in a written statement that he denies the IRS whistleblowers' allegations, New York Post reports.

The IRS agent told the committee that in regard to misdemeanor tax charges for the Biden son, which should have been felony charges under Department of Justice policies, "as the special agent on this case, I thought the felony charges were well supported when considering the element of felony tax case."

Ziegler testified that Hunter Biden committed multiple counts of felony tax evasion he "falsely claimed business deductions for payments made to the Chateau Marmont, a hotel room for his supposed drug dealer, sex club memberships falsely referenced on the wire as a golf membership, hotels he was blacklisted from, and a Columbia University tuition payment for his adult daughter."

The IRS agent said that these "false deductions claimed by Hunter Biden caused a false return to be prepared that underreported his total income by approximately $267,000 and a loss to the US Treasury of $106,000."

Ziegler also noted that in regard to the 2014 tax year, Hunter Biden did not report "any of the money he earned from Burisma for the 2014 tax year, which would have been a tax loss to the Government of $124,000."

The IRS whistleblower stated that assigned prosecutors "did not appear to follow the normal investigative process, slow walked the investigation and put in place unnecessary approvals and roadblocks from effectively and efficiently investigating the case a number of times we were not able to follow the facts."