Anonymous ID: fb84dd Oct. 11, 2023, 8:24 a.m. No.19714099   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4463 >>4583 >>4785 >>4806

U.S. Attorney declines to name those involved in decision not to prosecute Hunter Biden

 

Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney for Washington D.C. who was a key figure in Jan. 6 prosecutions and refused to bring tax charges against Hunter Biden, backed out of naming those involved in declining to prosecute the first son, according to his transcribed interview with lawmakers.

 

"I'm already dealing with enough threats and harassment of my assistant United States attorneys," Graves said in the official transcript obtained by Just the News as he explained why their names were not revealed.

 

He told lawmakers during the interview how his agency decided to not partner with David Weiss, the U.S. Attorney for Delaware who was later named special counsel, and prosecuting a Hunter Biden in tax charges.

 

Graves told lawmakers he met with five or six people from his office in March 2022 to determine whether they should get involved in the Hunter Biden case.

 

Three weeks later the office decided to not get involved in the case, and Graves refused to disclose his office's thoughts because the investigation is still ongoing.

 

Graves also said it was "normal" for federal prosecutors to bring tax cases without partnering with the Justice Department Tax Division, but in this case, Weiss needed the division's approval to open a grand jury probe into Hunter Biden.

 

While Graves said he never told the Delaware prosecutor to not bring charges, he also never followed up with Weiss to make it clear that he was still welcome to bring charges even if his own office would not be involved.

 

Furthermore, Graves said he never felt a need to recuse himself from being involved in the case involving President Joe Biden's son even though he worked on the president's campaign, as well as candidate John Kerry's 2004 Democratic presidential campaign and President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign.

 

"You can certainly understand how some Republicans might have concerns that a U.S. attorney appointed by President Biden might have some conflict-of-interest types of issues, weighing in on a case against the President's son," one of the lawmakers said to Graves in the transcript.

 

"I mean, people can have whatever concerns they might have. I do not view it that way. And I'm not aware of any ethical canon that says that U.S. attorneys have an obligation to recuse whenever a family member of the President is implicated," Graves responded.

 

When pressed further about whether he considered having someone else decide whether he had a conflict of interest, Graves said: "I am saying there is no ethical reason for me to put this decision on someone else. And, in my experience, when you start trying to do things that aren't required to placate people on the outside, you still wind up with those accusations despite what you did."

 

Graves' comments come after IRS whistleblowers said Weiss could not independently bring tax charges in Washington D.C. against Hunter Biden. Additionally, an unnamed FBI supervisor recently told the House that prosecutors purposely slow-walked the Hunter Biden probe.

 

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/us-attorney-graves-backs-out-naming-those-hunter-biden-prosecution

Anonymous ID: fb84dd Oct. 11, 2023, 8:30 a.m. No.19714134   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Lawrence H. Summers

 

In nearly 50 years of @Harvard affiliation, I have never been as disillusioned and alienated as I am today.

 

The silence from Harvard’s leadership, so far, coupled with a vocal and widely reported student groups' statement blaming Israel solely, has allowed Harvard to appear at best neutral towards acts of terror against the Jewish state of Israel.

 

Unlike President Bacow’s strong statement of support for Ukraine after Putin’s invasion and the decision to fly the Ukraine flag over Harvard yard…

…or Dean Gay’s powerful statement on police violence, we have as yet - 48 hours later - no official Harvard statement at this time of moral testing.

Instead, Harvard is being defined by the morally unconscionable statement apparently coming from two dozen student groups blaming all the violence on Israel. I am sickened. I cannot fathom the Administration’s failure to disassociate the University and condemn this statement.

 

I very much hope appropriate statements from the University and College condemning those who launched terrorist attacks and standing in solidarity with its victims will soon be forthcoming.

 

To be clear nothing is wrong with criticizing Israeli policy past, present or future. I have been sharply critical of PM Netanyahu. But that is very different from lack of clarity regarding terrorism.

 

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