“In my experience, if it was a small business owner or other independent person,
he would have been charged with felonies,” Shapley assessed the case. (Source:PL)
WASHINGTON, June 28 (RHC) — The US Internal Revenue Service supervisor involved in the investigation into Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, insisted Wednesday that this particular case was getting “special treatment.”
Gary Shapley’s comments come a week after US Attorney for Delaware, who led the investigation, David Weiss, announced that a settlement had been reached with the person being investigated.
As the official commented to the CBS News network, more serious allegations could have been made in this case.
According to a Justice Department filing released last week, Hunter Biden has reached a tentative settlement with federal prosecutors in Delaware, in which he agreed to plead guilty to two counts of tax offenses and admit gun ownership.
The admission includes confirmation that drug use played a role in the commission of your firearms offense and, under the terms of the agreement, if you remain drug free and commit no further offenses for the next two years, charges related to the latter would be barred .
A federal judge has yet to approve the agreement, and to that end a hearing is scheduled for July 26 before Judge Maryellen Noreika in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware.
“In my experience, a small business owner or other independent person would have been charged with criminal offenses,” Shapley said of the case.
The official also revealed that Hunter Biden wrote off monies he paid for “prostitution services, sex club memberships, travel for women he was intimate with, and hotel rooms for suspected drug dealers” as business expenses.
Hunter Biden’s criminal defense attorney, Christopher Clark, did not respond to a request for comment on Shapley’s allegations, but noted in a previous statement that any allegation that the investigation had not been thorough was “absurd and deeply irresponsible.” (Source:PL)