Hunter Biden’s lawyer lambasted the chairmen of three House committees, saying they sought to interfere with his client's criminal prosecution, and because of their investigations, prosecutors indicted the president’s son.
In a letter sent to the chairmen of the House Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means committees just after a federal grand jury indicted Hunter Biden on gun possession charges, Abbe Lowell, Biden’s attorney, accused them of doing everything they can to “interfere with ‘impartial justice’ and the proper workings of a criminal investigation” involving Biden.
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The letter, which was obtained by the Washington Examiner, accuses the chairmen of only investigating Biden as a way to “move the needle” in the 2024 election and that, as a result, prosecutors felt pressure to indict the president’s son.
“Your blatant efforts achieved your goal as the U.S. Attorney in Delaware today filed gun charges against our client — charges that are unprecedented when not part of some other criminal conduct and have been found unconstitutional by a federal court of appeals — and who reversed his earlier decision that such charges were not warranted,” Lowell said in the letter. “Your improper interference now affecting a federal prosecutor is a much greater threat to society than the 11 days that Mr. Biden possessed an unloaded gun.”
He said the chairmen participated in “partisan congressional manipulation” under the guise of pretending to “provide a forum for real whistleblowers,” when in reality, their main goal was to release information on Hunter Biden to the public.
Lowell also claimed that testimony from two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers pressured the Department of Justice to renege on a “non-litigated resolution of the investigation,” which would have been a “complete non-prosecution agreement.” But, when the IRS whistleblowers came forward to the Ways and Means Committee, the DOJ changed its position on the plea agreement.
“The change to a rare misdemeanor failure to file/pay and a felony diversion for possession of a firearm (and now the actual filing of those firearm charges) occurred only after a chain of events starting with the improper disclosures arranged by you and your Committees of the so-called ‘whistleblowers’ claims of prosecutorial misconduct and your, and the right-wing media with whom you coordinate, taking up those claims,” the letter reads.
In a statement, representatives for the IRS whistleblowers called Lowell’s claims “outrageous” and accused him of peddling “a false narrative.”
“Mr. Lowell is peddling a fiction that Weiss and his team were always going to let his client off the hook, but the facts are clear that in early 2022 they agreed with investigators that felony tax charges were warranted, and presented those charges to the Biden-appointed U.S. attorneys in D.C. and California,” the statement says. “His attempt to blame his client’s legal troubles on politics is a brazen ploy to deflect from the fact that Biden-appointed prosecutors, whose conflict of interest should have kept them miles away from any involvement in this case, blocked felony tax charges against the President’s son.”
Lowell pushed back on the argument that his client was offered a "sweetheart deal." Instead, Lowell claimed that Hunter Biden was not treated by the DOJ in an “impartial manner” and is going to be charged for “conduct no one else would be charged for because, as the President’s son, he has been subject to your relentless efforts to inject partisan Republican politics into the process.”
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In a statement, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) disputed the allegations raised in the letter.
“Hunter Biden’s legal team agrees that the Justice Department makes decisions based on politics like we’ve said all along, but they’ve got it backwards,” Comer said in the statement. “Congress putting a spotlight on the Justice Department’s sweetheart plea deal shamed the Justice Department into doing what’s right on one thing after they got caught. The Justice Department must administer the law fairly and equally. That’s what Americans demand and deserve.”