🚨Docs show Hunter Biden's cozy DOJ connection🚨
Prosecutors coordinated with Hunter's lawyers on media inquiries about slow-walking of investigation.
DOJ circulated a "proposed statement" drafted by Hunter's lawyers - the statement was designed to be hidden from FOIA.
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Oversight Project’s lawyers have obtained communications from David Weiss’s lethargic Hunter Biden investigation.
The docs corroborate IRS whistleblower Gary Shapely’s account of DOJ slow-walking. They also show DOJ and Hunters’ team coordinated on media inquiries like this one 👇
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In response to these inquires, DOJ and Hunter’s lawyers, whose positions should have been adversarial, set up a coordination call.
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An internal DOJ summary of the call included a “Proposed Statement” for media inquiries made to Hunter’s lawyers.
This statement was written by Hunter’s council. It included a special request from Hunter to give the communication “FOIA confidential treatment”.
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Hunter’s lawyer sent the statement to AUSA Leslie Wolf and DOJ Tax Prosecutor Mark Daly.
Wolf is infamous for having tipped off Hunter Biden about an upcoming search in the Weiss investigation and for prohibiting investigators from asking questions about Joe Biden.
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In a transcribed interview IRS whistleblower Shapely described Daly’s role in slow-walking the Hunter case and engaging in a "fishing expedition”.
According to Shapely, the expeditions' goal was to find Shapely's team commenting about DOJ's unethical handling of the case.
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Intriguingly Daly’s summary of he and Wolf’s call indicates that Hunter’s defense team filed memos ”right after calls with [the] reporter”. The next segment of text is redacted.
Could it be that Hunter’s lawyers suggested to the DOJ the fishing expedition which ultimately targeted Shapely?
Overall, these docs show the relationship between Hunter and David Weises’ prosecution team was more cooperative than adversarial.
The teams collaborated to deflect media attention and searched for an off ramp from prosecution which would benefit Hunter and his family.
Read the docs here:
docdepot.itsyourgov.org/documents/7752…
Read Shapley’s transcribed interview here:
waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/upl…
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