IRS Special Agent Joseph Ziegler told CBS News in an exclusive interview Wednesday he felt “handcuffed” from pursuing “certain roads” in the Justice Department’s investigation of Hunter Biden.
For example, Ziegler said he wanted prosecutors to obtain a search warrant for a Virginia storage unit to search for potential business records, but that they declined. He said requests to interview Hunter Biden’s adult children about tax payments were “frustrated by prosecutors.” Ziegler said they told him those requests could “get us into hot water.”
“Anytime we potentially wanted to go down the road of asking questions related to the president, it was ‘That’s gonna take too much approvals. We can’t ask those questions,'” Ziegler said. Ziegler said the evidence that they did uncover supported more serious criminal charges than was sought by the Justice Department against the younger Biden, who is expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax violations and enter a diversion program for a gun violation next week.
Zeigler said in 2021, he drafted a memo recommending that prosecutors charge him with multiple felonies and misdemeanors. “David said to us…’I’m getting some concern from the Department of Justice Tax Division, the evidence that might come in related to his substance abuse and the death of his brother, Beau Biden, those might affect the jury’s opinion,'” Ziegler said.
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