Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf blocked federal agents from including then Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in their investigation into whether his son, Hunter Biden, violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
The revelation was contained in a new, lengthy report from the House Ways and Means Committee’s investigation of the government’s handling of the investigations into the Biden family.
“As a priority, someone needs to redraft attachment B. I am not sure what this is cut and pasted from but other than the attribution, location and identity stuff at the end, none if it is appropriate and within the scope of this warrant,” Wolf said in an email to FBI and other U.S. officials. “Please focus on FARA evidence only. There should be nothing about Political Figure 1 in here.”
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Newly released emails and documents show that Delaware Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf DID NOT ALLOW AGENTS TO INVESTIGATE JOE BIDEN as part of a FARA probe. pic.twitter.com/MBYrCWi0Tz
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) September 27, 2023
The Committee released a separate court filing that identified Biden as “Political Figure 1.”
“POLITICAL FIGURE 1 – FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN JR. — VP Biden is currently the Democratic Party Presidential candidate for the United States and served as the 47th officeholder for the position of the Office of the Vice President of the United States (VPOTUS) in the Barack Obama Administration from January 20, 2009 to January 20, 2017,” the filing said. “He is the father of SUBJECT 1.”
The information comes after House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) revealed this week that he obtained information after subpoenaing bank records that showed that Hunter Biden allegedly received wires sent from inside communist China for more than a quarter of a million dollars in 2019 and that he listed Joe Biden’s home in Delaware as the address for the beneficiary of the money.
The banks produced “records of two wires originating from Beijing, China and linked to BHR Partners,” a joint-venture between Hunter Biden’s company and a Chinese investment company where Hunter Biden served on the Board of Directors, the report from Fox News said.
The two wires that were sent to Hunter Biden in the summer of 2019 totaled $260,000 and listed Hunter Biden as the beneficiary, but listed his father’s home in Delaware as his address.
The report noted that Hunter Biden allegedly lived in the home during various points in time from 2017 through 2019, but it was not clear if he was living at the home when the $10,000 wire was sent in July 2019 or when the second wire for $250,000 was sent in August 2019.
“Bank records don’t lie but President Joe Biden does,” Comer said in a statement. “In 2020, Joe Biden told Americans that his family never received money from China. We’ve already proved that to be a lie earlier this year, and now we know that two wires originating from Beijing listed Joe Biden’s Wilmington home as the beneficiary address when he was running for President of the United States. When Joe Biden was vice president, he spoke on the phone and had coffee with Jonathan Li in Beijing, and later wrote a college letter of recommendation for his children.”
