Over $17MILLION has been funneled from foreign sources to the Biden family, confirms IRS Whistleblower

PUBLISHEDThu Jul 20 2023 14:40 GMT

UPDATEDThu Jul 20 2023 15:10 GMT

Whistleblower X - unmasked as the lead IRS investigator on the Hunter Biden probe Joseph Ziegler - confirmed that the Biden family has accepted over $17 million in foreign payments, with over half going to Hunter Biden.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., asked Ziegler during Wednesday's hearing to confirm the total amount of foreign income obtained by the Biden family.

'This brings the total amount of foreign income streams received to approximately $17 million, correct?' asked Comer.

'That is correct,' replied the whistleblower.

IRS Criminal Investigator Joseph Ziegler showed his face for the first time Wednesday after blowing the whistle on preferential treatment in the Hunter Biden case – and previously only being identified as Whistleblower X

'The purpose of documenting the foreign sources is part of a normal international tax investigation,' Ziegler added. 'We have to figure out where the money is coming from.'

Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings LLC paid Hunter and his associates $6.5 million – but their total came to $7.3 million when a PR firm and law firm payments were taken into account.

Ziegler and IRS Supervisory Agent Gary Shapley testified before the House Oversight Committee that their investigation 'supported felony and misdemeanor tax charges,' which were ultimately not brought against the president's son Hunter due to political pressures.

Ziegler, a 13-year veteran of the IRS who was the main case agent on the Hunter probe, claimed the federal tax investigation into the president's son 'supported felony and misdemeanor tax charges' - rather than just the misdemeanor tax charges Hunter is scheduled to plead guilty to next week as part of a deal that allows him to and avoid prosecution for a separate gun charge.

The agents said under oath that U.S. Attorney David Weiss, the lead Hunter Biden prosecutor, asked Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves to bring those charges. But after Graves refused, Weiss threw out the potential felony charges and struck a plea deal with the president's son.

'I watched U.S. Attorney [David] Weiss tell a room full of senior FBI and IRS senior leaders on October 7, 2022, that he was not the deciding person on whether charges were filed,' Shapley said, contradicting Weiss' previous public statements.

'If the Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss followed DOJ policy as he stated in his most recent letter, Hunter Biden should have been charged with a tax felony, and not only the tax misdemeanor charge,' said Ziegler. 'We need to treat each taxpayer the same under the law.'

Members of the Biden family may have accepted more than $40 million from foreign nationals in return for forming favorable policy decisions, Comer has previously claimed.

The countries giving the money include China, Romania and Ukraine.

'This was organized crime - there's no other way to define it,' Kentucky Republican James Comer alleged in an interview last month.

He said the committee had identified 'six specific policy decisions' where President Joe Biden acted where the committee 'can't come to any other conclusion' other than that the president was 'compromised.'

Comer said then that he was confident his investigation would find proof of 'at least $17 million' from overseas payments, but that he would not be surprised if 'transactions exceed $40 million plus.'

The Oversight Committee chairman also said that his panel had obtained further banking statements and Treasury suspicious activity reports showing 'more bank accounts, more shell companies and more Bidens being involved in an alleged policy pedaling scheme.

The committee is expected to release those bank statements in coming weeks.

Over $17MILLION has been funneled from foreign sources to the Biden family, confirms IRS Whistleblower

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