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Did the IRS Manipulate the 2020 Election?<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/a><\/span> | Sep 9, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Hunter Biden pled guilty on Thursday to a barrage of federal tax crimes. But will the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department ever plead guilty to stealing the 2020 election for Joe Biden?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2023, the IRS assessed 18,599,109 penalties<\/span><\/a> on individuals who allegedly underpaid or failed to pay federal income taxes. How did the IRS miss Hunter Biden for so long?<\/p>\n

In 2021, the Biden administration sought to compel banks to report to the IRS any bank account with more than $600<\/span><\/a> in transactions per year. But the feds effectively disregarded multimillion dollar windfalls pouring into Hunter\u2019s offers from around the globe<\/p>\n

Hunter is a tax dodger straight out of IRS Central Casting. Between 2014 and 2019, he pocketed more than $8 million from shady foreign sources, triggering a bushel of Treasury Department Suspicious Activity Reports. Hunter failed to pay more than $1 million in taxes and was slapped by a tax lien of $112,805 for his 2015 taxes. The IRS even threatened to cancel his passport, but no criminal charges were filed.<\/p>\n

The IRS began formally investigating Hunter in 2018; by January 2020, a team of a dozen IRS employees were working on his case. The Justice Department failed to file any charges before the statute of limitation expired on Hunter\u2019s 2014 and 2015 tax violations.<\/p>\n

IRS investigators vigorously pushed to search part of Joe Biden\u2019s Delaware estate prior to the 2020 election. On September 3, 2020, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf agreed with Gary Shapley, an IRS supervisory special agent, that there was \u201cmore than enough probable cause for the physical search warrant\u201d and \u201ca lot of evidence in our investigation would be found in the guest house of former Vice President Biden.\u201d Wolf reportedly told Shapley that U.S. Attorney David Weiss \u201cagreed that probable cause had been achieved.\u201d But Wolf declared that \u201coptics were a driving factor in the decision [not] to execute a search warrant,\u201d according to Shapley.<\/p>\n

Like the \u201coptics\u201d Team Biden unleashed when they sent heavily-armed FBI agents to raid Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home in August 2022 to choreograph government documents for photographers? The FBI recently admitted that the documents they seized were arranged prior for a publicity shot. There has been scant media criticism of the Biden White House for seeking to destroy the president\u2019s political opponent with high profile tactics that did better on CNN than in federal court.<\/p>\n

IRS investigators were kept out of an October 2020 Justice Department briefing on an alleged \u201ccriminal bribery scheme\u201d investigation on Joe Biden and his family. This severely limited the potential political damage to the presidential frontrunner at that time. A female FBI supervisor stated in a congressional interview last year that the Justice Department used the 2022 midterm election as a pretext<\/span><\/a> to delay further action on Hunter\u2019s tax case. CNBC reported in April 2023 that the IRS reportedly \u201cfinished its investigation more than a year ago,\u201d but no charges were filed.<\/p>\n

The IRS\u2019s Shapley filed a whistleblower complaint <\/span><\/a>in April last year asserting that the investigation of Hunter Biden\u2019s tax violations was being blocked by \u201cpreferential treatment and politics.\u201d In May last year, 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. <\/span><\/a>The 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, Shapley\u2019s lawyers.<\/p>\n

After two IRS officials formally became whistleblowers, the Justice Department dismissed the entire IRS team from the Hunter investigation, potentially crippling the ability to pursue Hunter\u2019s million-dollar plus tax violations.<\/p>\n

The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee reported last year that IRS investigators were met with a \u201c\u2018Delay, Divulge, and Deny\u2019 campaign that ultimately shielded the president\u2019s son by allowing the statute of limitations to expire on several tax crimes for\u2026when Joe Biden was the Vice President.\u201d Attorneys for Hunter Biden were tipped off ahead of time about searches, resulting in the removal or destruction of evidence. \u201cProsecutors instructed investigators not to ask witnesses questions about Joe Biden or references to the \u2018big guy,\u2019\u201d the congressional committee noted.<\/p>\n

An FBI agent was interviewed last year by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee investigators regarding the potential coverup. The interview transcript confirms official skullduggery. Just the News website<\/span><\/a> excerpted the transcript of the questioning:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn September of 2021, are you aware that Lesley Wolf emailed Gary Shapley stating, \u2018I do not think you are going to be able to do these interviews as planned,\u2019 adding that they would require approval from DOJ Tax Division. \u2018Are you aware of that?\u2019 the FBI agent was asked at one point.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt another point, the FBI agent was asked: \u2018Are you aware in October of 2021 Lesley Wolf emailed Gary Shapley and the investigative team that \u2018It will get us into hot water if we interview the President\u2019s grandchildren\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In July 2023, the Justice Department sought to close Hunter\u2019s case with a wrist-slap plea for tax misdemeanors. But federal judge\u00a0 <\/span>Maryellen Noreika <\/span><\/a>did not agree that \u2018there is nothing to see here, move along.\u2019 She asked lawyers a few questions about the blanket immunity that prosecutors provided for Hunter\u2019s other possible crimes and the deal collapsed. Hunter missed his chance to win the Emmy Award for Best Tear-Jerking Performance on Courthouse Steps by a Media Darling. The Washington Post<\/em> reported that Hunter had written \u201ca statement about his desire to close a difficult chapter in his life, and was planning to read it to news cameras outside the courthouse after entering his plea\u201d at the federal courthouse in Delaware.<\/p>\n

Attorney General Merrick Garland claimed that David Weiss, the Special Counsel he appointed to investigate Hunter\u2019s alleged crimes, had independent authority to file charges as he pleased. But it was later revealed that Weiss\u2019 charging ability was severely restricted outside of Delaware and by Justice Department tax attorneys. Curtailing Weiss\u2019 ability to prosecute the case enabled President Biden to continue scoffing at reporters who ask about kickback allegations<\/span><\/a>: \u201cWhere\u2019s the money?\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden won the 2020 election by a margin of 43,000 votes in three swing states because far more Americans considered Biden \u201chonest and trustworthy<\/span><\/a>\u201d than Trump (52% vs. 40% according to a Gallup poll in October 2020). But Biden\u2019s honesty was always a mirage created by a craven media and federal coverups. Biden campaigning as \u201cMr. Clean\u201d was as absurd as if Bill Clinton had campaigned as the Chastity Kid, or Donald Trump campaigning as Humility Incarnate.<\/p>\n

In the final debate with Trump before the election, Joe Biden proclaimed that \u201cmy son has not<\/span><\/a> made money\u201d from China. But while he was vice president, Biden took Hunter with him to Beijing in 2013 to help his boy snare sweetheart deals.<\/p>\n

Any tax indictment of Hunter or criminal search of Joe Biden\u2019s Delaware home prior to Election Day 2020 would have shattered Biden\u2019s moral pretenses. And once his Teflon shield vanished, the New York Post<\/em>\u2019s revelations of Hunter\u2019s laptop would have done far more damage to Uncle Joe.<\/p>\n

At the least, a federal search of Biden\u2019s home shortly before the 2020 election could have had the same blunderbuss effect as the October 2016 FBI re-opening of its investigation into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton\u2019s email crimes.<\/p>\n

Hunter\u2019s guilty plea may have been a subsidy for the Kamala Harris presidential campaign. Pleading guilty before the trial got rolling will prevent a deluge of potentially riveting evidence of Biden family corruption and official coverups. Instead, Team Biden and the Harris campaign is hoping for a single news cycle of bad publicit<\/strong>y.<\/p>\n

The rigging of the Hunter Biden IRS investigation is no surprise to anyone familiar with the agency\u2019s history. As author David Burnham wrote in his 1990 masterpiece A Law Unto Itself: The IRS and the Abuse of Power<\/em>, \u201cIn almost every administration since the IRS\u2019s inception the information and power of the tax agency have been mobilized for explicitly political purposes.\u201d Burnham noted, \u201cThe reality that so many are somehow in violation of a supremely murky law gives the agency and the individual agent an astonishingly free hand to pick and choose their targets.\u201d This arbitrary power can be compounded when the feds choose to ignore or overlook brazen tax offenses by the politically connected.<\/p>\n

A pardon for Hunter is as certain as Joe Biden\u2019s next verbal hairball. But will federal agencies have the decency to drop the \u201cequal justice\u201d hokum and admit that \u201coptics\u201d trumps fair play almost every time?\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20407,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20406\/revisions\/20407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}