“We do know President Biden followed it up by issuing an unprecedented pardon to get his son off the hook for serious crimes,” Senator Chuck Grassley said.
Newly disclosed DOJ and FBI records indicate federal investigators had substantial evidence suggesting Hunter Biden may have violated federal prostitution trafficking laws as far back as October 2020, just weeks before the presidential election, but no charges were ever filed.
The records, recently obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson, included text messages and financial evidence tied to potential violations of the Mann Act, the federal law prohibiting the transportation of individuals across state lines for prostitution or “any other immoral purpose.”
According to the senators, the Biden Justice Department failed to provide the materials when they were originally requested during a 2022 congressional investigation into Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings and possible corruption involving the Biden family.
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Among the evidence cited in the newly released documents is an alleged 2018 incident in which Hunter Biden appeared to purchase airfare for a woman traveling from Los Angeles to an undisclosed destination. In a 2020 report, the committees had mentioned findings regarding payments to women from Ukraine and Russia, some of which investigators believed may have been connected to “what appears to be an Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring.”
Possible Mann Act violations were previously discussed during the federal tax investigation into Hunter Biden. IRS whistleblowers later testified that investigators uncovered evidence suggesting Biden deducted payments to prostitutes as business expenses and arranged travel for women across state lines.
Grassley sharply criticized federal law enforcement agencies for what he described as a failure to fully investigate the evidence. “[The] DOJ and FBI possessed evidence of potential crimes, yet it’s unclear what steps they … took to fully investigate this shocking evidence,” Grassley told Just the News.
“We do know President Biden followed it up by issuing an unprecedented pardon to get his son off the hook for serious crimes. This is an affront to blind justice, and it’s especially sickening considering Hunter Biden’s actions appear to have put vulnerable women at risk,” he also said.
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