Biden Justice Department
July 27, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I still have not been able to locate the text of the diversion agreement to which the corrupt Biden Department of Justice agreed to on Hunter Biden’s felony gun exposure, if I may use that term in the vicinity of Hunter Biden’s name. However, Sol Wisenberg has tracked it down along with the text of the plea agreement on the misdemeanor tax charges. He comments in the screenshot of the
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July 26, 2023 — Scott Johnson
As I was saying this morning, Judge Noreika had her guard up. She asked a few pointed questions of the parties to the phony baloney “prosecution” of Hunter Biden, the unprecedented plea deal they cooked up is temporarily on hold. The parties — they will be back, but today is a great day. Thanks to the nature of the dirty deal — immunizing Hunter Biden from further “prosecution” while leaving
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July 23, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Posted yesterday, Andrew McCarthy’s weekly NRO column is “The Biden Family’s History of Influence-Peddling, Explained” (behind NRO’s paywall). It lays out the template of the Biden family business in Romania and then applies it to Ukraine. It is long, lucid, and devastating. NRO has also posted the long editorial “The Jaw-Dropping Hunter Biden–Investigation Revelations.” The editorial is accessible and provides a useful review of what we have learned so far
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July 22, 2023 — Elizabeth Stauffer
At a Jan. 26, 1998 White House event, with wife Hillary by his side, then-President Bill Clinton wagged his finger at reporters and said, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” If not for the stains on Monica Lewinsky’s infamous “blue dress,” he would have been happy to leave it at that. But called upon to provide a blood sample for DNA testing that summer, Clinton
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July 20, 2023 — Scott Johnson
The House Oversight Committee has posted the opening statements of the two IRS whistleblowers who testified on the farcical investigation of Hunter Biden. They testified at the committee’s public hearing yesterday. Gary Shapley’s statement is posted here. Joseph Ziegler’s statement is posted here. C-SPAN has also posted video of the opening statements as delivered. Gary Shapley’s is below. Joseph Ziegler’s is below. Both men give the appearance of unimpeachable professional
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July 18, 2023 — Scott Johnson
In the adjacent post I note the appearance of the IRS whistleblowers to testify in public before the House Oversight Committee tomorrow. I should have guessed that the Biden administration would have a news-hogging indictment in store, as indeed it does. President Trump has disclosed that he is a target in Biden Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 investigation. He will be indicted some time soon. That
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July 13, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Attorney General Merrick Garland came to town on June 16 to indict the Minneapolis Police Department for racism, find it guilty, and announce the terms to which municipal authorities have agreed. The Department of Justice press release is here, Garland’s remarks at the press conference here, the DoJ’s 89-page report here, and the parties’ settlement in principle here. The report stems from a DoJ investigation launched in the wake of
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July 12, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I have collected notes on the latest developments in the shambolic investigation of Hunter Biden: prosecutor David Weiss’s letter to Senator Lindsey Graham (“To clarify an apparent misperception and to avoid future confusion, I wish to make one point clear: in this case, I have not requested Special Counsel designation pursuant to” the statute for appointing a special counsel) and the IRS whistleblowers’ response to same (“Once again: U.S. Attorney
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July 11, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Last week in “Gal Luft speaks” I noted Miranda Devine’s New York Post column on Gal Luft’s video statement alleging knowledge of the Biden family business and his meeting with the FBI on the subject. Luft is on the run from charges we had yet to see. Luft’s video appears to have moved the government to unveil the charges. Yesterday the government unsealed the indictment against Luft for acting as
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July 10, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Senator Grassley worked over the weekend to crank out some questions for United States Attorney David Weiss in connection with his shambolic “investigation” of Hunter Biden. Senator Grassley has posted his July 9 letter to Weiss online here. The operative principle governing the Weiss investigation seems to have been that no harm was to be done to Hunter or the Biden family business. Indeed, no one was to look too
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July 7, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Miranda Devine’s most recent New York Post column on the Biden family business is “‘Missing’ Biden corruption case witness Dr. Gal Luft details allegations against president’s family in extraordinary video.” The New York Post has published the video on which Devine’s column is based and I have posted it below. The Post draws on Devine’s column to provide the accompanying summary with the video on YouTube: The “missing witness” from
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July 3, 2023 — Scott Johnson
In her New York Post column today — “Blowing the lid off the coverup of Hunter Biden’s cushy plea deal” — Miranda Devine takes up the nature of United States Attorney David Weiss’s authority to bring charges against Hunter Biden and the resulting plea deal to which the parties have agreed. Devine covers some of the same material I attempted to parse in “Weiss wobbles by it.” However, Devine attends
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July 2, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Has United States Attorney David Weiss been granted the ultimate authority to investigate and charge the Hunter Biden case as he sees fit? IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley testified that Weiss told him and others on the investigative team that he did not (for example, at page 28 of the Shapley transcript). Taking advantage of the long holiday weekend in a scandal management kind of way, on Friday Weiss released a
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June 29, 2023 — Scott Johnson
IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley appeared for an interview over two segments on Special Report with Bret Baier last night. I have posted video of the first of the two segments below. Fox News has posted stories on the interview here and here. Shapley blows the whistle on the Department of Justice’s “investigation” of Hunter Biden’s tax crimes. As with other famous scofflaws of American history, Biden’s tax crimes open a
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June 27, 2023 — Scott Johnson
The story of the Biden family business continues to be the lead story in American politics. Let us strive to keep our eye on it one way or another. The pending plea deal arranged for Hunter Biden makes up an essential component of the story. In a post behind NRO’s subscription paywall, Brittany Bernstein provides the comments of former United States Attorney Brett Tolman on the deal: Brett Tolman, executive
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June 26, 2023 — Scott Johnson
The Wall Street Journal contemplates “Hunter Biden’s ‘fair’ tax share” with the help of the testimony of the IRS whistleblowers released late last week. The Journal editorial bears on a number of issues including the Bide/Dem/left-wing mantra about “the rich” paying their “fair share” (what is it, by the way?) and the nature of the deal that the Biden Department of Justice has extended to Hunter. Here is the summary
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June 25, 2023 — Scott Johnson
There was really only one story in American politics last week. It came with the release of the IRS whistleblower transcripts on Thursday on Thursday by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith. I wrote about Smith’s press conference in “Is the cover-up unraveling?” and noted the availability of the whistleblower transcripts online. They are posted here (Gary Shapley) and here (witness name redacted, supplemental submission here). These materials
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