According to an IRS whistleblower, President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign received donations from the US attorney who ‘refused to bring charges’ against Hunter Biden.
In a congressional hearing on Wednesday, Special Agent Gary Shapley claimed that U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, who contributed to President Biden’s 2020 campaign, “refused to bring charges” against Hunter for tax evasion.
‘The Justice Department allowed the president’s political appointees to weigh in on whether to charge the president’s son,’ Shapley told the panel.
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According to Federal Election Commission records, Graves contributed a total of $1,500 during the Democratic presidential primaries in April 2020 and May 2020.
As additional information concerning the Biden family and the alleged preferential treatment of Hunter during criminal investigations continues to emerge, another whistleblower said political pressure prevented the filing of felony charges.
The most important tax case against Hunter was handled by one agent, who later said that he felt “handcuffed” throughout the five-year investigation and was prevented from following any leads that would have implicated Hunter’s father.
Who is Matthew Graves?
Since 2021, American attorney Matthew Michael Graves has held the position of US attorney for the District of Columbia.
Graves was born in Reading, Pennsylvania.
He graduated from Washington and Lee University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1998 and Yale Law School with a Juris Doctor in 2001.
As a law clerk for US District Court of Columbia Judge Richard W. Roberts, Graves started his legal career. He worked as an associate at WilmerHale from 2002 through 2007. Graves served in the office’s fraud and public corruption department as an assistant US attorney in the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2016, eventually holding the position of acting section chief.
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton recommended Graves to be the United States attorney. President Joe Biden proposed Graves for the position on July 26, 2021. His nomination was passed out of committee by voice vote on September 23, 2021. His nomination was approved by the US Senate on October 28, 2021. Graves was sworn in by Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell on November 5, 2021.
U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene had declared on May 16, 2023, that she intended to file articles of impeachment against Graves for his prosecution of those responsible for the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2023.
