WASHINGTON ― The country’s top cop insisted Friday that the Delaware prosecutor who charged President Joe Biden’s son with tax crimes had the power to bring charges however he wanted.
“He was given complete authority to make all decisions on his own,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a press conference.
A whistleblower previously claimed that Garland’s Justice Department slow-walked an investigation into Hunter Biden’s alleged failure to pay federal taxes.
Gary Shapley, a career IRS agent overseeing criminal investigations, told lawmakers on Capitol Hill in May that FBI officials resisted applications for warrants and that David Weiss, the Delaware U.S. attorney overseeing the Hunter Biden case, claimed he couldn’t bring charges in other states without permission from prosecutors in those states.
According to Shapley, Weiss said he was “not the deciding official on whether charges are filed” against Hunter Biden in Washington, D.C., and that he was…
