Hunter Biden Probe Tensions Mounted, IRS Agent Alleges

In a charged meeting last year, federal prosecutors were informed of investigators’ “longstanding concerns” about what they described as irregularities in the handling of the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, a lawyer for an IRS supervisory agent said in a letter.

The letter to the Office of Special Counsel, an independent investigative body that handles federal government personnel matters, refers to a meeting in October 2022 and comes days before the supervisory agent is set to give closed-door testimony on Capitol Hill. 

The account offers a glimpse into simmering tensions in the yearslong investigation into Hunter Biden, which is focused on his taxes and whether he made a false statement in connection with a 2018 gun purchase. The younger Biden has denied any wrongdoing, saying he has handled his affairs legally and appropriately.

The Internal Revenue Service supervisory agent, who hasn’t been publicly identified, again raised concerns after the October 2022 meeting in a call with federal prosecutors. After that exchange, he and his investigative team were “no longer invited to any further prosecutorial team calls and meetings on the case, effectively excluding them from the case,” wrote the lawyer, Tristan Leavitt, president of Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research, a nonprofit focused on oversight of government and corporate wrongdoing.