Two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers implicated Attorney General Merrick Garland and IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel in perjury with their testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, two Republicans on the committee told the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gary Shapley and another whistleblower both testified before Ways and Means Committee attorneys for more than seven hours, Republican Reps. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma and Greg Murphy of North Carolina told the Daily Caller. The members emphasized that the testimony implicates both Garland and IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel in lying to Congress about political interference in the Biden probe. Ways and Means voted Thursday in a closed-door hearing to release their transcripts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both congressmen emphasized the credibility of the whistleblowers, with Hern noting that they were questioned by both Republican and Democrat committee attorneys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhistleblower One\u2019s story was corroborated by Whistleblower Two,\u201d the Oklahoman said. \u201cThe attorneys for the Democrats had the ability to ask any questions, any clarifications they wanted to and review the final transcript.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOne individual came forward and laid out the full case of what\u2019s going on. The second individual, through his attorney, asked Ways and Means to contact him and ask for testimony. So we didn\u2019t seek these, they sought us,\u201d Murphy added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shapley oversaw the agency\u2019s tax investigation into Hunter Biden, which is expected to culminate in the president\u2019s son pleading<\/a> guilty to two misdemeanors. An investigator at the IRS for more than a decade, Shapley came<\/a> forward to allege that the IRS violated<\/a> normal investigatory protocols in ways that benefited Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shapley\u2019s letter<\/a> to Congress accuses Attorney General Merrick Garland of lying to Congress when he asserted<\/a> that investigations into Biden would go on without political interference. Garland denied the charge. Werfel testified<\/a> to Ways and Means in April and promised that whistleblowers would not be retaliated against. The second whistleblower alleged in his interview<\/a> that he was retaliated against as early as October 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat\u2019s an absolute lie. That\u2019s an absolute lie. He perjured himself before Congress,\u201d Murphy said of Garland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both whistleblowers noted one instance in which IRS agents sought to search a storage unit in northern Virginia belonging to Hunter Biden. When the agents reached out to Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf with their request for a warrant, she informed Biden\u2019s defense team about their interest in the property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was at this point for me that I started to believe that the attorneys with the Delaware U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office and DOJ Tax were not acting appropriately, they were not following the appropriate investigative steps, and that we were not a part of the trajectory and\/or the planning of the investigation as we normally are,\u201d the unnamed whistleblower said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shapley referenced another incident in which DOJ officials declined to follow up on potentially incriminating messages between Hunter Biden and a Chinese businessman. The younger Biden messaged Henry Zhao, the chairman of Harvest Capital, about an unfulfilled business deal. Hunter Biden threatened Zhao, telling him, \u201cI am sitting here with my father\u201d who could help make sure Zhao \u201cwill regret not following my direction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although IRS agents again wanted to execute a search, Wolf demurred, telling them that optics might make doing so inappropriate. DOJ attorneys \u201ceven wanted to remove Hunter Biden\u2019s name from\u201d legal documents, in a violation of protocol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis was clearly controlled by the IRS, the Department of Justice, and in our view, the boss of both, which is the White House,\u201d Hern concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n