IRS Special Agent Gary Shapley recently appeared on Fox News Channel to speak with host Bret Baier about Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and the IRS investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes and misdeeds that ended with a shockingly soft misdemeanor charge.
Speaking about the situation, Special Agent Shapley said that the IRS agents looking into the matter were not allowed to poke around and ask questions about Joe Biden’s involvement, nor were they able to even include certain names in documents filed as they investigated the situation.
As he put it: “We weren’t allowed to ask questions about dad, we weren’t allowed to ask about the big guy, we weren’t allowed to include certain names in document requests and search warrants. So, we were precluded from following that line of questioning.”
Continuing, Shapley then told Baier that that was most unusual because he and the other agents were doing their utmost to, despite the tricky and political nature of the situation, just follow all the proper procedures for an IRS investigation. But, instead of letting them do that, the political officers within the IRS threw up roadblock after roadblock that stopped the IRS agents looking into the matter from being able to follow through on the investigation and discover what was really going on.
In fact, Shapley told Baier, more roadblocks were thrown up in this case than in any other case in his decade-and-a-half career at the IRS. Those roadblocks, he said, were used to stop the other agents and him from connecting current President Joe Biden to any investigation.
Speaking on that shocking, unprofessional handling of the matter by the upper reaches of the IRS, Shapley said, “We were trying to follow the normal process, we were trying to get to the bottom of it. Ultimately, if it was going to lead to another individual, we should follow that to determine what is happening, but there were definitely hindrances I have never seen in my 14 years concerning this investigation that didn’t allow us to follow through the investigation of any other individual to involve President Biden.”
He then noted that those roadblocks did not just protect current President Joe Biden from oversight, they also potentially limited what information the agents investigating Hunter could discover about him. He said that the names included on the documents are important, so not being able to put certain names on the warrant requests and documents requests limited what the IRS could find.
As he put it: “When prosecutors don’t allow you to put the subject’s name on document requests or on search warrants, then it raises the possibility there is more information we did not find, but based on the financial records we did find, they’ve been analyzed and it was around 8.3 million received.”
Watch Shapley tell Baier about the situation here:
Does anyone think the IRS would have handled the matter this way if Trump and his sons were the subject of the investigation? Of course not.
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