{"id":18326,"date":"2023-05-23T20:59:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T00:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=18326"},"modified":"2023-05-24T10:15:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:15:27","slug":"n-y-post-irs-coverup-of-hunter-biden-could-be-scandal-that-sinks-a-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/23\/n-y-post-irs-coverup-of-hunter-biden-could-be-scandal-that-sinks-a-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. Post: IRS coverup of Hunter Biden could be scandal that sinks a presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>New York Post, May 24, 2023<\/h3>\n

IRS coverup of Hunter Biden could be scandal that sinks a presidency<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

In his \u201cBeautiful Things\u201d memoir, Hunter Biden wrote: \u201cI still have a ton of work to do . . . clearing the wreckage of my past.\u201d And Attorney General Merrick Garland is just the bulldozer Hunter needs to clear that wreckage.<\/p>\n

CNBC reported last month that federal prosecutors could charge Hunter with three tax crimes, including a felony charge for tax evasion. The IRS reportedly \u201cfinished its investigation more than a year ago\u201d but no charges have been filed.<\/p>\n

Mystery solved? Last month, an IRS criminal supervisory special agent filed a whistleblower complaint <\/a>asserting that the investigation of Hunter Biden\u2019s tax violations is being blocked by \u201cpreferential treatment and politics.\u201d Monday, a special agent in the IRS\u2019s international tax and financial crimes group who had spent five years investigating Hunter Biden also filed a whistleblower complaint on the Biden case. \u00a0<\/a>Rather than respecting the concerns of veteran investigators, \u201cthe IRS responded with accusations of criminal conduct and warnings to other agents in an apparent attempt to intimidate into silence anyone who might raise similar concerns,\u201d according to Mark Lytle and Tristian Leavitt, lawyers for the first whistleblower.<\/p>\n

Hunter Biden is a tax dodger straight out of IRS Central Casting<\/strong>. He and other Bidens pocketed<\/a> more than $10 million from shady foreigners, triggering a bushel of Treasury Department suspicious-activity reports.<\/p>\n

Hunter stiffed the IRS and was slapped by a tax lien of $112,805 for his 2015 taxes. His tax defaults were so bad that the IRS threatened to cancel his passport. The IRS began formally investigating Hunter in 2018; by January 2020, a team of a dozen IRS employees were working on his case. As early as summer 2020, the IRS supervisor whistleblower notified his superiors about the Justice Department\u2019s \u201cirregularities\u201d in the case.<\/p>\n