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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/garland-question-hunter-biden- investigation-special-counsel
Garland said the investigation can be trusted because it is being overseen
by a 'Trump appointee'
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday refused to provide an update
on the federal tax and finance investigation into Hunter Biden as he
defended the probe and dismissed the need to appoint a special counsel.
In a hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Garland told
senators there would be no political or improper interference into the
Hunter Biden investigation.
Under questioning from Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., who expressed concern
over the fairness of the investigation that has caused Americans to
question their "confidence" in the Justice Department, Garland did not say whether he has been briefed on the Hunter Biden investigation, which is
being overseen by David Weiss, the U.S. attorney for the District of
Delaware.
"He is supervising the investigation," Garland said of Weiss. "I'm not at liberty to talk about internal Justice Department deliberations, but he is
in charge of that investigation. There will not be interference of any political or improper kind."
Pressed further on the matter and asked whether any senior officials in
the Justice Department were being briefed on the investigation, Garland
said, "Again, he is the supervisor of this investigation and, you know,
the normal processes of the department occur. But he is the supervisor of
this investigation."
Highlighting public statements made in defense of the Biden family by top members of the administration, Hagerty asked Garland how Americans could
have confidence that the department would conduct a "serious
investigation."
"Because we put the investigation in the hands of a Trump appointee from
the previous administration, who is the United States attorney for the
district of Delaware," Garland responded. "And because you have me as the attorney general who is committed to the independence of the Justice
Department from any influence from the White House and criminal matters."
HUNTER BIDEN'S EX-LOVERS COULD COME BACK TO HAUNT HIM AS FEDERAL GRAND
JURY INVESTIGATES HIS TAX AFFAIRS
Hagerty, pointing to an "obvious conflict of interest," then asked Garland under what circumstances he would appoint a special counsel to investigate
the matter.
"I think this is a fact and law question in each case, determining it and depending upon how cases go forward and the question of whether the
Justice Department, with its normal processes, should continue," Garland
said. "I think our internal deliberations have to stay within the
department."
While President Biden has vowed not to interfere with investigations being conducted by the Justice Department, comments from several key officials
from the White House, including White House chief of staff Ron Klain and
White House press secretary Jen Psaki, have raised concern.
Earlier this month, Klain said the president is "confident that his son
didn’t break the law" as he insisted that "no one at the White House has involvement in" the investigation.
Both Psaki and Biden have maintained that the president has not spoken
with his son about his business dealings.
Hunter Biden first revealed in December 2020 that his "tax affairs" were
under federal investigation.
The Senate Homeland Security Committee and Senate Finance Committee
conducted an investigation in 2020 into Hunter's foreign business dealings during his father's tenure as vice president and discovered that there
were at least four large transactions that banks flagged as "potential
criminal activity" to the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network.
One of the suspicious transactions was a $100,000 payment from a
subsidiary of CEFC China Energy – which was at the time owned by Chinese billionaire Ye Jianming – to Hunter's law firm, Owasco, in 2017. To date, Hunter has not been criminally charged.
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