Attorneys working with one of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent whistleblowers in the criminal investigation of Hunter Biden released their client’s notes in response to an FBI agent’s testimony casting doubt on a key claim.
IRS supervisory special agent Gary Shapley wrote down that Delaware’s U.S. Attorney David Weiss stated in an October 2022 meeting that he was “not the deciding person” when it came to bringing charges in the case, as shown in a document obtained and published by CBS News.
Shapley’s attorneys wrote to the leaders of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday declaring that they were sharing an unredacted copy of the notes in response to a Washington Post report that revealed Thomas Sobocinski, a senior FBI agent also involved in the Biden inquiry, told the congressional panel that he left the same October 2022 meeting believing that Weiss did have the authority to bring charges.
“According to the Washington Post story, Mr. Sobocinski…