House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) revealed Thursday that the Justice Department (DOJ) prevented United States Attorney David Weiss from asking questions about an email on Hunter Biden’s laptop detailing a business deal with CEFC China Energy Co., mentioning “Ten held by H for the big guy.”
According to an IRS whistleblower’s testimony received by Smith’s committee, Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Lesley Wolf refused to allow Weiss to question Hunter Biden’s former business partner Rob Walker about a 2017 email chain in which he was cc’d between Hunter Biden and two of his former business partners, Tony Bobulinski and James Gilliar.
The whistleblower told the committee:
Among other things, we wanted to question Walker about an email that said: “Ten held by H for the big guy.” We had obvious questions like who was H, who the big guy was, and why this percentage was to be held separately with the association hidden. But AUSA…