IRS whistleblower reveals Biden's DOJ interfered in Hunter Biden tax probe

"Despite what whistleblowers described as a clear-cut case for tax liability on these payments, IRS investigators say they found themselves hamstrung, internally."

On Thursday, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith released five new documents revealing evidence from two IRS whistleblowers who alleged that the Justice Department had interfered with the probe into Hunter Biden’s taxes.

In a press conference, Smith said "whistleblowers claim the Biden Department of Justice is intervening and overstepping when it comes to the investigation of the president’s son."

"Despite what whistleblowers described as a clear-cut case for tax liability on these payments, IRS investigators say they found themselves hamstrung, internally.

"The testimony we have just released details a lack of US attorney independence, recurring unjustified delays, unusual actions outside the normal course of any investigation, a lack of transparency across the investigation and prosecution teams, and bullying and threats from the defense counsel."

Smith said this was a "campaign of delay, divulge, and deny."

The whistleblowers said that reoccurring delays pervaded the investigation, "including authenticating a WhatsApp message in which Hunter Biden demands payment from Chinese officials, during which he noted that his father was in the room.

In an interview with the Ways and Means Committee on May 26, 2023, Gary Shapley, a supervisory special agent with the IRS Criminal Investigation, said that "Since October 2022, IRS CI has taken every opportunity to retaliate against me and my team."

"Even after IRS CI senior leadership has been made aware on a recurring basis that the Delaware US Attorney’s Office and the Department of Justice was acting improperly, they acquiesced to a DOJ request to remove the entire team from the Hunter Biden investigation, a team that had been investigating it for over 5 years."

Shapley said he was "blowing the whistle" because the "Delaware US Attorney's Office, Department of Justice Tax, and Department of Justice provided preferential treatment and unchecked conflicts of interest in an important and high-profile investigation of the President's son, Hunter Biden."

Shapley said the mission of the IRS CI to investigate potential criminal violations "can only be met by treating every taxpayer we encounter the same."

He said that the investigation, which had been launched in November of 2018, had been running smoothly until Biden because the "presumptive Democratic nominee for President in early April 2020," leading to "career DOJ officials dragg[ing] their feet on the IRS taking these investigative steps" which included approving a search warrant and 15 interviews.

In a June 16, 2020 call between himself, another special agent, and the chain of command up to the Director of Field Operations, Shapley said he "pointed out that if normal procedures had been followed we already would have executed search warrants, conducted interviews, and served document requests. Nevertheless, my IRS chain of command decided we would defer to DOJ."

"From around October 2020 through October 2022, I was the IRS CI manager who interacted directly with the United States Attorney, David Weiss, and individuals at DOJ Tax Division the most," Shapley said.

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-irs-whistleblower-reveals-bidens-doj-interfered-in-hunter-biden-tax-probe

Seven Sentenced to Federal Prison for Child Sex Trafficking in Green Lake County

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edwi/pr/seven-sentenced-federal-prison-child-sex-trafficking-green-lake-county

Far-Left MSNBC Contributor Elie Mystal Tweets ‘Death Wish’ Against Supreme Court Justice Alito “Please Take Him to See the Titanic”

Far-Left “justice correspondent” for The Nation and frequent MSNBC guest, Elie Mystal, is no stranger to making vile comments about political opponents.

On Thursday, Mystal used the tragedy of the missing tourist submarine viewing the wreckage of the Titanic to attack Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and issue his “death wish” on Alito. Mystal tweeted, “Next time some rich white person wants to take Sam Alito on an expensive trip, please take him to see the Titanic.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/far-left-msnbc-contributor-elie-mystal-tweets-death/

New Illinois Bill Would Allow Non US Citizens to Serve in Law Enforcement

While current federal law prohibits non-U.S. citizens from working in law enforcement, Illinois is looking to change that.

The Illinois House and Senate recently passed Bill 3751 allowing some work-eligible non US citizens to serve in law enforcement in the state.

The bill states, “Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill and adds that an individual against whom immigration action has been deferred by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) process is allowed to apply for the position of police officer, deputy sheriff, or special policeman, subject to specified requirements. Effective January 1, 2024.”

CBS Chicago reports:

A bill that would allow non-U.S. citizens to become police officers in Illinois is now on Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk.

Federal law states that only U.S. citizens can serve as police officers and deputies. But Illinois House Bill 3751 would change that for immigrants who are work-eligible under federal law.

The bill’s sponsor called it a natural progression – now that some undocumented immigrants can become health care workers and military members.

But an opponent claims giving non-citizens the right to arrest a U.S. citizen would be a “breach of democracy.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/new-illinois-bill-would-allow-non-us-citizens/

Australia threatens Twitter with fines after surge in hate speech complaints

Australian authorities have issued a legal notice to Twitter demanding the social media giant explain how it is tackling online hate on its platform.

eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said her agency had received more complaints about online hate on Twitter in the past 12 months than any other platform.

The complaints had surged since Elon Musk's takeover of the company in October, 2022, she added

"Twitter appears to have dropped the ball on tackling hate," Grant said.

"A third of all complaints about online hate reported to us are now happening on Twitter.

"We are also aware of reports that the reinstatement of some of these previously banned accounts has emboldened extreme polarisers, peddlers of outrage and hate, including neo-Nazis both in Australia and overseas."

https://www.9news.com.au/national/australia-threatens-twitter-with-fines-after-surge-in-hate-speech-complaints/9f62436a-49d9-4fe6-b35e-1a1cabdb47f8

Second IRS whistleblower backs up claims of DOJ improprieties during Hunter Biden investigation

The second whistleblower testified to the committee on June 1 and largely corroborated Shapley's claims.

Asecond IRS agent who worked on the Hunter Biden investigation has corroborated many of the claims of Department of Justice improprieties and investigative constraints hampering the federal case against the first son.

Biden reached a plea deal with the DOJ this week to plead guilty to two tax crimes and admit to a gun violation that may be dismissed. The DOJ is recommending that he receive no jail time, though a Trump-appointed judge will have the final say on the matter.

IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley previously came forward, alleging that federal prosecutors engaged in "preferential treatment and politics" to prevent charges from being brought against Hunter. Shapley subsequently testified to the House Committee on Ways and Means on May 26 to explain his concerns in detail. Just the News has obtained the transcript of that interview.

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Whistleblower 1 Transcript_Redacted.pdf

The second whistleblower, who remains anonymous, was a subordinate of Shapley and one of the IRS criminal investigators participating in the investigation. He and entire team of IRS agents were removed from the case after Shapley brought forward his whistleblower claims. Shapley's attorneys informed Congress in mid-May that the DOJ had removed the team in what they deemed an act of retaliation.

The second whistleblower testified to the committee on June 1 and largely corroborated Shapley's claims, whose testimony appeared to undercut a statement from Attorney General Merrick Garland, who indicated that U.S. Attorney David Weiss had free rein to pursue charges against Hunter Biden.

"While the impression was that the U.S. Attorney in Delaware has essentially the powers of special counsel in this case, free rein to do as needed, as is clearly shown, this was not the case," the IRS agent told the committee. "The U.S. Attorney in Delaware in our investigation was constantly hamstrung, limited, and marginalized by DOJ officials as well as other U.S. Attorneys."

This individual first became known when a letter he wrote to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel following the purge of the team was included in a whistleblower package that Shapley provided to Congress and the Office of Special Counsel. That letter outlined Shapley and the second whistleblower's extensive efforts to inform IRS leadership of the investigations issues and their unwillingness to address concerns.

The whistleblower package sent to Congress from Shapley's attorneys that included the letter also addressed the agency's response to it, in which a superior admonished the unnamed whistleblower for breaking the chain of command and suggested he may have illegally disclosed grand jury information to Werfel.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/second-irs-whistleblower-backs-claims-doj-improprieties-during-hunter-biden

Georgia won't update Dominion voting machines before 2024, despite cybersecurity expert warnings

The Georgia secretary of state's office is relying on a report commissioned by Dominion regarding the company's voting machines.

Georgia is delaying a software update for its Dominion voting machines until after the 2024 presidential election, despite cybersecurity experts warning of vulnerabilities.

A nearly 2-year-old report was finally made public last week and showed Dominion voting machines had significant vulnerabilities, which led the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to issue a public advisory last year based on the findings.

However, Georgia election officials say that the machines won’t be updated until after the 2024 elections because it's such a massive undertaking.

The report was completed in July 2021 by University of Michigan Professor of Computer Science and Engineering J. Alex Halderman with Professor Drew Springall, of Auburn University, and focused in part on vulnerabilities they found after examining Dominion’s ImageCast X Ballot Marking Devices for three months.

A redacted copy of the report was released June 14 by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division. ​

The report was completed on behalf of the plaintiffs in the case of Curling v. Raffensperger and found the Dominion machines are vulnerable to vote flipping.

Halderman suggested the machines were capable of being manipulated in mere minutes by bad actors, saying the QR codes on printed ballots could be altered and malware installed on individual machines “with only brief physical access.”

The broader voting system could be attacked if bad actors have the same access to it as certain county-level election officials, the report also concluded.

However, Halderman stated there is no evidence such vulnerabilities have been exploited in past elections.

“My technical findings leave Georgia voters with greatly diminished grounds to be confident that the votes they cast on [the current Dominion ballot-marking devices] are secured, that their votes will be counted correctly, or that any future elections using Georgia’s [ballot-marking devices] will be reasonably secure from attack and produce correct results,” he wrote.

Last June, in response to Halderman’s report, CISA urged election officials to mitigate the risks caused by the vulnerabilities in the Dominion machines but also stated the agency “has no evidence that these vulnerabilities have been exploited in any elections.”

Following the Halderman report, Dominion commissioned the nonprofit MITRE Corp.'s National Election Security Lab to respond to the findings. The report, completed in July 2022, was released along with the Halderman report.

The MITRE report said the Halderman report findings were “operationally infeasible” when considering adherence to strict security measures, normal voting practices, and scale considerations.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in a statement following the release of the MITRE report that it "confirms that Georgia’s election infrastructure is secured by the toughest safeguards."

He also said: "For years, election deniers have created a cottage industry of ever-shifting claims about conspiracies to change votes, steal elections and undermine voter confidence. This report says it all: Voting machines do not flip votes. Cast ballots are counted as the voter intended. Georgia elections are secure.”

Dominion on Wednesday referred Just the News to its website for a response to the MITRE report.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/ga-delaying-dominion-voting-machine-update-until-after-2024-despite

John Durham Gives Chilling Response to Harriet Hageman Question About Two-Tiered Justice System: ‘The Nation Can’t Stand’

Wyoming Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming questioned John Durham yesterday, using her time to point out the rotting corruption at the FBI.

She excoriated the Democrats and their deep state allies for using a lie to try to destroy Trump’s candidacy and then his presidency, noting that they knew it was a lie and didn’t care, as long as it was effective.

She then asked Durham if he believed the country could survive a two-tiered justice system.

Transcript via RedState:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/john-durham-gives-chilling-response-harriet-hageman-question/

Whistleblower Reveals Hunter Biden Demanded Payment From His Chinese Business Associate Over Text Message – While Joe Biden Was Sitting Next to Him!

The House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday released a devastating report detailing accounts of Biden corruption from two IRS whistleblowers.

The two IRS whistleblowers told lawmakers about the Justice Department’s effort to block search warrants and cover-up Hunter Biden’s tax crimes.

One IRS whistleblower revealed Hunter Biden demanded payment from his Chinese business associate over WhasApp messenger.

Hunter Biden demanded payment and threatened Henry Zhao, a Chinese Communist Party official and director of Harvest Fund Management.

Harvest Fund Management had previously invested in Hunter Biden’s firm, BHR Partners – a private investment fund founded in 2013 that is co-owned by the Bank of China.

Hunter and Joe Biden threatened Henry Zhao – make a payment or else!

Hunter Biden used his powerful father as muscle to collect.

The WhatsApp message Hunter Biden sent to Henry Zhao is as follows according to the IRS whistleblower:

“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my directions. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”

This is more proof Joe Biden was actively involved in Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings.

Hunter Biden is a nobody drug addict without his powerful father – all of Hunter’s deals revolved around Joe Biden, AKA, “The Big Guy”.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/whistleblower-reveals-hunter-biden-threatened-his-chinese-business/

GOOGLE CLOUD LAUNCHES NEW AI-POWERED ANTI-MONEY-LAUNDERING PRODUCT FOR BIG BANKS

Money laundering is a major issue for financial institutions. Banks have long relied on humans to monitor rules-based systems that detect suspicious transactions. These legacy systems yield very low rates of identifying suspicious activities. Google Cloud wants to change the game by introducing an artificial intelligence-powered product designed to turbocharge the detection of money laundering.

Current Anti Money Laundering (AML) monitoring products rely entirely on manually defined rules, which yield low rates of identifying illegal activities, ranging from drug and human trafficking to terrorist financing. These systems consume significant resources that have to monitor billions of transactions.

Google Cloud's AML is a consolidated machine learning (ML)-generated customer risk score versus the legacy rules-based transaction alerting system financial institutions use. The risk score uses the bank's data, including transactional patterns, network behavior, and Know Your Customer (KYC) data, to identify instances and groups of high-risk retail and commercial customers. The AI can quickly deliver more accurate results and alleviate the workload for banking units that monitor suspicious transactions.

AML AI can outperform current systems in detecting financial crime risk. Google provided an example of its Cloud customer HSBC which can now detect two to four times more true positive risk, enhancing its ability to detect suspicious activities.

Increased risk detection: AML AI can outperform current systems in detecting financial crime risk. Google Cloud customer HSBC found that they can now detect two to four times[5] more true positive risk, enhancing their ability to identify and prevent money laundering activities.

Lower operational costs: AML AI minimizes wasted investigator time by reducing alert volumes and providing explainable outputs that speed up individual investigations. In fact, HSBC saw alert volumes decrease by more than 60%.

Improved governance and defensibility: AML AI provides financial institutions with auditable and explainable outputs to support internal risk management. This approach is now in production in several geographies, each with their own regulatory requirements.

Improved customer experience: By increasing precision and significantly reducing false positives, AML AI minimizes the need to engage with customers for additional compliance verification checks.

AML AI has helped HSBC improve detection capability, deliver more accurate results, and significantly reduce batch processing times for its customer base.

"Google Cloud's AML AI has significantly improved HSBC's AML detection capability. Google's models are already demonstrating the tremendous potential of machine learning to transform anti-financial crime efforts in the industry at large.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/84960/google-cloud-launches-new-aipowered-antimoneylaundering-product-for-big.html

SCHOOL WORLD ORDER

https://youtu.be/BxTWfaebCs4

Elon Musk joins call for audit of US funds to Ukraine after top Ukrainian judge sentenced to 10 years in prison over 2016 bribery scheme

Elon Musk suggested an audit should be carried out on how American taxpayer dollars are being spent in Ukraine.

Elon Musk suggested an audit should be carried out on how American taxpayer dollars are being spent on the war in Ukraine. This comes after Senator Rand Paul posted a tweet that suggested the US needs to reconsider how corrupt the Ukrainian government is before offering it more money, noting that a top judge in Kyiv was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a bribery scheme that occurred in 2016.

Elon Musk responded to the senator’s post on Twitter, posting: “Some accounting of how American taxpayer money is being spent sure sounds like a reasonable request!”

The comment was in response to Paul’s tweet, which read: “The good news is that Ukraine caught their highest judge hiding some of his more than $2 million in bribes in pickle jars. The bad news is that Ukraine, consistently ranked as one of the most corrupt nations on the planet, still has high-ranking officials robbing it blind.”

“This might be a salient point when Ukraine returns to Congress to beg for more US taxpayer funds. Why won’t Democrats accept my call for a Special Inspector General to oversee the billions we send to Ukraine?”

Musk's sentiment echoes that of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly demanded an audit of all US taxpayer dollars "given in any form to Ukraine."

Greene suggested that the funds being sent for the war effort may "really funding something else that’s happening, maybe lining up Democrat donors’ pockets? Was that helping Democrat campaigns and candidates get elected?”

Rep. Matt Gaetz has suggested that defunding Ukraine should be a priority for the US. In early February, Newsweek reported that there were ten Republican lawmakers who backed Gaetz’s proposition.

They were Reps. Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Anna Paulina Luna, Thomas Massie, Mary Miller, Barry Moore, Ralph Norman, and Matt Rosendale.

The proposal to defund Ukraine came before it was discovered that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials had embezzled around $400 million of US aid that was meant to go toward the purchase of diesel.

https://thepostmillennial.com/elon-musk-joins-call-for-audit-of-us-funds-to-ukraine-after-top-ukrainian-judge-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-over-2016-bribery-scheme

New Zealand debates whether ethnicity should be a factor for surgery waitlists

The outside of a large building with a sign that says Auckland City Hospital.

An algorithm that takes into account factors including a patient's ethnicity to help determine where they should be placed on a surgery waitlist sparks debate in New Zealand.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-22/new-zeland-surgery-waitlist-algorithm/102512912