The former chief of the Justice Department’s tax division is calling on the federal judge overseeing Hunter Biden’s plea bargain with U.S. prosecutors to reject the agreement.
Eileen O’Connor, who ran the DOJ tax division from 2001 to 2007, published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal Wednesday outlining why the plea agreement Hunter Biden struck with the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office ought to be dismissed.
“Judges can reject plea agreements,” O’Connor wrote. “That would be an appropriate disposition here.”
O’Connor summarized the blockbuster revelations from a pair of whistleblowers within the Internal Revenue Service who came forward with allegations of DOJ interference in their criminal tax probe investigating Hunter Biden. The IRS investigation into the younger Biden began in 2018 as an “offshoot” of a federal probe into a foreign pornography ring. The FBI even came across Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop a year later, and verified the computer’s authenticity, but refused to share its full contents with the IRS.
“The Justice Department’s alleged foot-dragging and refusal to permit IRS special agents to follow the evidence allowed the statutes of limitations for 2014 and 2015 to expire, notwithstanding that Mr. Biden’s defense counsel had, according to [whistleblower Gary] Shapley, agreed to more than one extension,” O’Connor wrote. “Far worse, Mr. Garland’s failure to designate Mr. Weiss a special counsel essentially guaranteed that Mr. Biden wouldn’t be prosecuted for any of his alleged tax crimes.”
Federal prosecutors also concealed the FD-1023 form housed with the FBI that alleged
