The Justice Department’s chief tax prosecutor has told Congress that Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss could not bring tax evasion charges against Hunter Biden without getting prior approval from his office, further undercutting Attorney General Merrick Garland’s portrayal that the politically sensitive probe was completely independent.

In an transcribed interview with the House Judiciary Committee reviewed by Just the News, Acting Assistant Attorney General Stuart Goldberg, the current chief of the DOJ tax division, also acknowledged that Hunter Biden’s case got special attention because of his father’s political stature. …

Goldberg’s account supports testimony from IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler that DOJ treated the first’s son tax case differently and that Weiss could not bring the charges against Hunter Biden without blessings from the tax division and the U.S. Attorneys in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles, where the alleged crimes occurred.