House investigators subpoena key Justice Department official accused of thwarting Hunter Biden probe

House lawmakers investigating whether or not the Justice Department suppressed an investigation into President Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, have subpoenaed Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf, whom whistleblowers say steered the FBI and IRS away from probing the Bidens.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan signed the subpoena summoning Ms. Wolf to provide a closed-door deposition on Dec. 7. In a letter to Ms. Wolf obtained by The Washington Times, the Ohio Republican stated the Justice Department has not complied with the panel’s request to voluntarily make her out there for a transcribed interview.

“Based on the committee’s investigation to date, it is clear that you possess specialized and unique information that is unavailable to the committee through other sources and without which the committee’s inquiry would be incomplete,” Mr. Jordan wrote to Ms. Wolf.

Ms. Wolf is a central determine in complaints made by a pair of FBI whistleblowers who say the Delaware U.S. legal professional’s workplace she helped lead squelched their efforts to completely examine Hunter Biden on tax fraud expenses.

According to the whistleblowers, Ms. Wolf additionally blocked their efforts to pursue proof they found throughout their probe that will have implicated President Biden in an influence-peddling scheme.

The letter to Ms. Wolf lists her actions that Republicans consider could have been meant to guard the Bidens, together with tipping off Hunter Biden‘s legal team about a potential search warrant for his abandoned storage unit and later “objecting to executing a search warrant” on the storage unit.

Whistleblowers say Ms. Wolf also blocked investigators, including an FBI agent, from asking witnesses about terminology used by Hunter Biden and his business associates to refer to President Biden, including “the big guy,” or “dad.” Ms. Wolf also ordered investigators to remove references to Mr. Biden in a search warrant, which had identified him as “Political Figure 1,” and she was involved in blocking investigators from interviewing Hunter Biden‘s adult children and from pursuing evidence of “criminal campaign finance violations.”

The Justice Department has allowed other top officials to testify before the Judiciary Committee, including Special Counsel David Weiss, who is leading the investigation into Hunter Biden and was Ms. Wolf‘s supervisor in his prior role as the Delaware U.S. attorney.

But Ms. Wolf was more directly involved in the day-to-day supervision of the investigation, and whistleblowers portray her as playing the lead role in thwarting their probe of Hunter Biden‘s alleged tax fraud and gun crimes and whether his father played a role in his business deals.

In testimony before the Ways and Means Committee earlier this year, IRS whistleblowers said Ms. Wolf discouraged them from pursuing uncovered evidence suggesting that Mr. Biden participated in his son’s overseas enterprise offers. In one occasion, the Justice Department blocked them from looking for a search warrant to find out whether or not Mr. Biden was residence on July 30, 2017, when Hunter Biden despatched a WhatsApp message to a Chinese vitality official that threatened revenge from his highly effective father except a cost was made.

“I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father,” Hunter Biden stated within the message.

The House GOP is main an impeachment inquiry into Mr. Biden, largely behind closed doorways. Mr. Jordan cited the impeachment probe in his letter to Ms. Wolf.

“As a part of its investigations, the committee has determined that it requires your testimony because you have first-hand knowledge of the department’s criminal inquiry of Hunter Biden,” Mr. Jordan wrote.

Both Attorney General Merrick Garland and Mr. Weiss have denied the Justice Department labored to guard Hunter Biden or Joe Biden by both slow-walking or blocking the investigation.

Mr. Weiss has declined to clarify to investigators why he allowed the statute of limitations to run out on a few of the most severe tax fraud expenses towards Hunter Biden, together with unpaid taxes from his $1 million wage from a Ukrainian fuel firm that witnesses say sought assist from then-Vice President Biden in thwarting a corruption probe.

Mr. Weiss cited an ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden, who to date faces three felony expenses associated to his buy of a firearm whereas hooked on medicine. A earlier misdemeanor plea deal on tax fraud expenses fell aside in court docket in July.

Democrats have referred to as the GOP’s investigation “an absolute waste of time and a farce” that has uncovered no wrongdoing.