https://www.usatoday.com/story...removed/70222248007/
It worked in Ukraine, so why not do it here?

It surprises you that an IRS employee who is talking to congress and the press about an investigation got removed from the investigation?

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Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
It surprises you that an IRS employee who is talking to congress and the press about an investigation got removed from the investigation?

You make a good point. I skimmed through the article and didn't see the "his team" part.

How much time, effort and money is spent every year on useless investigations??

IRS Fires Investigative Team From Hunter Biden Probe
NEW YORK POST
MAY 16, 2023
NEWS
EXCLUSIVE

IRS removes investigative team from Hunter Biden probe in move whistleblower calls ‘clearly retaliatory’

By Steven Nelson | May 15, 2023 7:18pm Updated
WASHINGTON — The IRS on Monday removed the “entire investigative team” from its long-running tax fraud probe of first son Hunter Biden in alleged retaliation against the whistleblower who recently contacted Congress to allege a cover-up in the case, The Post has learned.

The purge allegedly was done on the orders of the Justice Department, the whistleblower’s attorneys informed congressional leaders in a letter.
“Today the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Supervisory Special Agent we represent was informed that he and his entire investigative team are being removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile, controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress. He was informed the change was at the request of the Department of Justice,” Mark Lytle and Tristan Leavitt wrote.

The whistleblower, who supervised the Hunter Biden probe since early 2020, hasn’t publicly identified the first son as the subject of the case that he says is being brushed under the rug, but congressional sources confirmed it.

“On April 27, 2023, IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel appeared before the House Committee on Ways and Means. He testified: ‘I can say without any hesitation there will be no retaliation for anyone making an allegation or a call to a whistleblower hotline.’ However, this move is clearly retaliatory and may also constitute obstruction of a congressional inquiry,” the lawyers went on.

“Our client has a right to make disclosures to Congress … He is protected by 5 U.S.C. § 2302 from retaliatory personnel actions — including receiving a ‘significant change in duties, responsibilities, or working conditions’ (which this clearly is) because of his disclosures to Congress.

“Any attempt by any government official to prevent a federal employee from furnishing information to Congress is also a direct violation of longstanding appropriations restriction. Furthermore, 18 U.S.C. § 1505 makes it a crime to obstruct an investigation of Congress,” Lytle and Leavitt wrote.

The whistleblower’s team added: “We respectfully request that you give this matter your prompt attention. Removing the experienced investigators who have worked this case for years and are now the subject-matter experts is exactly the sort of issue our client intended to blow the whistle on to begin with.”

The IRS and Justice Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Hunter Biden’s legal team and the White House also did not immediately respond.
The whistleblower’s representatives declined to comment further.

Hunter, 53, is under investigation for not paying taxes on millions in largely foreign-sourced income.

He was in good spirits Monday and gave journalists a thumbs-up while seated near his dad, President Biden, at the graduation ceremony for his daughter Maisy from the University of Pennsylvania.

The first son wrote in communications retrieved from the abandoned laptop that he paid up to “half” of his income to his father, and Hunter frequently involved then-Vice President Biden in his international business relationships.
The whistleblower was ousted from the investigation, along with an unknown number of subordinates, at roughly the same time as the Justice Department released a long-awaited report by special counsel John Durham detailing bias in the FBI’s investigation of former President Donald Trump’s alleged links to Russia.
The more than 300-page report dominated the evening’s news coverage.

The IRS whistleblower emerged last month when Lytle informed Congress that his client wanted to share information about “preferential treatment” in the Hunter Biden case and alleged false testimony to Congress by Attorney General Merrick Garland, who repeatedly assured lawmakers that Delaware US Attorney David Weiss can unilaterally make charging decisions in the investigation.
Leavitt, president of the group Empower Oversight, later joined as co-counsel.

The informant, who has yet to appear at the Capitol, already made disclosures to inspectors general at the Justice and Treasury departments.
Just one week after the whistleblower stepped forward, Hunter’s attorneys met with Justice Department leaders in a sign that a charging decision may come soon in the tax fraud investigation that reportedly began in 2018.
NBC reported last month that there was “growing frustration” within the FBI over the fact that Weiss, a Trump administration holdover recommended to his post by Delaware’s two Democratic senators, had not yet brought charges against Hunter Biden after the bureau concluded most of its work last year.

A different whistleblower informed Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) this month that the FBI has an informant file from 2020 alleging that Joe Biden accepted bribes as vice president. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued a subpoena for it, but last week the FBI refused to give the document to Congress.

Hunter confirmed he was under investigation for tax fraud shortly after his father won the 2020 election, and he reportedly borrowed about $2 million last year to pay off back taxes, though doing so doesn’t legally absolve him of the original non-payment.

The federal investigation reportedly has looked at whether Hunter laundered money, violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and lied about his drug use on a gun purchase form.
House Republicans, meanwhile, are investigating President Biden’s role in his family’s overseas dealings, through which Hunter Biden and first brother James Biden earned millions from partnerships with wealthy people in countries where their powerful relative held sway.
Joe Biden met with his relatives’ business associates on many occasions — including those from China, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russia and Ukraine — and House Republicans allege that Biden family members offered no legitimate business services and were merely selling access to the US government.

5/15/23
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Man, the whackos are at a fever conspiracy/cabal pitch.

Got to try to trash President Biden somehow, some way since they know trump can't win in 2024.

Solution? Make shit up.

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Got to try to trash President Biden somehow

No need,
He accomplishes this daily all on his own...

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Originally posted by Huvius:

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Got to try to trash President Biden somehow

No need,
He accomplishes this daily all on his own...

Joe's doing fine. Compared to your idiot, he's a master.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
How much time, effort and money is spent every year on useless investigations??

Yup. If you suspect someone is doing something you don’t like, just shoot the sonofabitch.

It worked on Lincoln, a couple of Kennedys, a black preacher, and it almost worked on Ford and Reagan so it’s kind of an accepted American tradition.

Yep Joe is doing a fine job on the southern border, just fantastic

Anybody who thinks Joe is doing fine certainly qualifies as insane therefore must disqualify themselves on a 4473 and certainly should never be anywhere near a detachable magazine fed semi-auto rifle.

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Originally posted by ledvm:
Anybody who thinks Joe is doing fine certainly qualifies as insane therefore must disqualify themselves on a 4473 and certainly should never be anywhere near a detachable magazine fed semi-auto rifle.

And you still think Trump is a hero!

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Originally posted by ledvm:
Anybody who thinks Joe is doing fine certainly qualifies as insane therefore must disqualify themselves on a 4473 and certainly should never be anywhere near a detachable magazine fed semi-auto rifle.

Says the yahoo that supports a lying philandering indicted POS. Those famous analytical skills you keep bragging about seem to be sorely lacking when it comes to political candidates.

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Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:

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Originally posted by ledvm:
Anybody who thinks Joe is doing fine certainly qualifies as insane therefore must disqualify themselves on a 4473 and certainly should never be anywhere near a detachable magazine fed semi-auto rifle.

Says the yahoo that supports a lying philandering indicted POS. Those famous analytical skills you keep bragging about seem to be sorely lacking when it comes to political candidates.

All I have said lately is that he is vastly superior to any Democrat with the possible exception of Manchin. Trump is light years ahead of Biden (I know a low bar).

I suspect I will be supporting DeSantis in the Primary. But, make no mistake, I will be there with bells on in the General to vote for Trump should we be stuck with him for the nominee and…

…he will handily beat Biden this go around. Will put the usual 1/5 on the line for wagers.

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Originally posted by ledvm:

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Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:

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Originally posted by ledvm:
Anybody who thinks Joe is doing fine certainly qualifies as insane therefore must disqualify themselves on a 4473 and certainly should never be anywhere near a detachable magazine fed semi-auto rifle.

Says the yahoo that supports a lying philandering indicted POS. Those famous analytical skills you keep bragging about seem to be sorely lacking when it comes to political candidates.

All I have said lately is that he is vastly superior to any Democrat with the possible exception of Manchin. Trump is light years ahead of Biden (I know a low bar).

I suspect I will be supporting DeSantis in the Primary. But, make no mistake, I will be there with bells on in the General to vote for Trump should we be stuck with him for the nominee and…

…he will handily beat Biden this go around. Will put the usual 1/5 on the line for wagers.

I'm well aware of your position.

1. You support a candidate who is a serial liar, an accused rapist, a man who cheats on his wife.

2. You support a candidate who engaged in efforts to overturn the result of a general election. An election that saw him lose both the popular vote and the electoral college by significant margins. He lies about this through today's date.

3. You support a candidate who fomented a riot at the US Capital in order to bolster his efforts to overturn the result of the election he lost. I'm sure had you been present in DC that day, you would have been standing right beside QAnon guy inside the US Capital.

I could go on and on. This really isn't even a matter of politics. It's basic human decency. trump is a disgrace and so is anybody that is supportive of the idea that he should ever be the President of the United States again.

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Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:

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Originally posted by ledvm:

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Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:

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Originally posted by ledvm:
Anybody who thinks Joe is doing fine certainly qualifies as insane therefore must disqualify themselves on a 4473 and certainly should never be anywhere near a detachable magazine fed semi-auto rifle.

Says the yahoo that supports a lying philandering indicted POS. Those famous analytical skills you keep bragging about seem to be sorely lacking when it comes to political candidates.

All I have said lately is that he is vastly superior to any Democrat with the possible exception of Manchin. Trump is light years ahead of Biden (I know a low bar).

I suspect I will be supporting DeSantis in the Primary. But, make no mistake, I will be there with bells on in the General to vote for Trump should we be stuck with him for the nominee and…

…he will handily beat Biden this go around. Will put the usual 1/5 on the line for wagers.

I'm well aware of your position.

1. You support a candidate who is a serial liar, an accused rapist, a man who cheats on his wife.

2. You support a candidate who engaged in efforts to overturn the result of a general election. An election that saw him lose both the popular vote and the electoral college by significant margins. He lies about this through today's date.

3. You support a candidate who fomented a riot at the US Capital in order to bolster his efforts to overturn the result of the election he lost. I'm sure had you been present in DC that day, you would have been standing right beside QAnon guy inside the US Capital.

I could go on and on. This really isn't even a matter of politics. It's basic human decency. trump is a disgrace and so is anybody that is supportive of the idea that he should ever be the President of the United States again.

And when the shoe is on the other foot you support serial little girl sniffer, open border king, user of government position to pocket his bank accounts, serial racist accuser and on and on and on…so what say you?

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Originally posted by Saeed:
How much time, effort and money is spent every year on useless investigations??

$6.5 million on Durham.

Mueller investigation $32 million

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Originally posted by MLindsay:
Mueller investigation $32 million

During the trump administration. Appointed by a republican. You do know that, right?

Yes I know that, does not change the fact that it was a waste of money!