The second issue is even more troubling: Weiss’s own office needs investigating. It has slow-walked the criminal investigation for years, allowed the Statute of Limitations to expire on key charges, let Hunter Biden escape from taxes he owed on foreign income, proposed to give him an unprecedented sweetheart deal and told IRS investigators they would not pursue any leads, however credible, that might lead to “the Big Guy” Joe Biden. True to their word, they have not pursued those leads.
Multiple witnesses have told Congress that Weiss’s office refused to investigate the full extent of the Biden family’s overseas business operations and the income received from them. Several experienced, non-partisan IRS investigators (all of whom were later taken off the case by Garland’s Department of Justice) have said that Weiss’s top aide, Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf, explicitly told them their office would not pursue any investigative threads that might lead to President Biden. The IRS witnesses added that their investigation was repeatedly blocked. All that testimony was given under oath. Weiss’s office has not challenged it.
[Catherine Herridge astutely pointed out that the new status for Weiss will likely be used to refuse to testify to Congress about these issues. Technically speaking, Congress could impeach Weiss from both of his offices, but the Senate would almost certainly refuse to remove him. The whole thing smells like a bureaucratic stonewall project. — Ed]
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