The Justice Department has ignored House investigators who want to ensure federal aid is provided to possible victims of a sex trafficking ring involving President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.

Lawmakers on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee say evidence provided by an IRS whistleblower shows the president’s son was paying women who belonged to a suspected prostitution ring and even designated some of them as his employees.

Hunter Biden may have also paid airfare to facilitate meetings with prostitutes, a violation of the Mann Act that was flagged by IRS officials investigating him for tax fraud.

Tax investigators found at least nine instances where Hunter Biden communicated with sex traffickers and seven instances where “likely” prostitutes flew across the U.S. to see him, or where he crossed state lines to engage with a prostitute. In several instances, he either paid or offered to pay for their travel.

The evidence, newly released by the House Ways and Means Committee, adds to a Suspicious Activity Report generated for the Treasury Department by JP Morgan Chase that shows Hunter Biden made thousands of dollars in payments from the bank account of his law firm, Owasco PC, to prostitutes in 2017 and 2018. The payments were flagged as “consistent with possible human trafficking.”

House investigators say Justice Department officials, despite public commitments to help victims of sexual trafficking, will not respond to requests about whether they identified or offered help to the women who may have been exploited by Hunter Biden. The women may be eligible for federal aid under the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act, lawmakers said.

“The Department of Justice’s actions reveal they care more about protecting the Bidens than victims,” House Oversight Chairman James Comer, Kentucky Republican, told The Washington Times. “To date, the Department appears to have disregarded the victims who were sexually exploited by Hunter Biden and ignored our questions about who at the Justice Department knew of these allegations, what they did with the information, and what steps, if any, they have taken to uphold the victims’ rights under the law.”

House investigators first sought information about the women in a letter sent July 25, which the Justice Department ignored, lawmakers said. The department has not responded to a follow-up request sent on Sept. 8, committee aides told The Times.

Hunter Biden last month was indicted on three criminal charges related to owning a gun while addicted to crack cocaine. He could face additional charges for tax fraud and foreign lobbying but House investigators say he should also be investigated for violating the Mann Act, which prohibits the interstate transport of someone to engage in prostitution.

Notable names convicted for violating the Mann Act include Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate of the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein who was sentenced to 20 years for sex trafficking minors and then died in jail in what authorities ruled a suicide.

In newly released documents from the House Ways and Means Committee, which heard testimony from two IRS whistleblowers claiming political interference in Hunter Biden’s tax fraud case, communications between Hunter Biden and “Trafficker #1” and “Trafficker #2” show efforts to connect the president’s son with suspected escorts, a self-identified “hooker” and other women, including one who denies she is “some hooker or escort.”

The women traveled to various places to see Hunter Biden, flying from Los Angeles to Boston, New York City to Boston, and to Delaware from an unknown location. One communication with a trafficker identified by the IRS investigator indicates Hunter Biden drove from Massachusetts to New York City to see one woman, but it was “unclear” if she was a paid escort.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia Republican, is leading the GOP investigation into Hunter Biden’s possible sex trafficking crimes.

She co-signed the Sept. 8 letter with Mr. Comer that was sent to Hilary Axam, the Justice Department’s National Human Trafficking Coordinator, and Kristina Rose, who leads the department’s Office for Victims of Crime. The letter asks if they received the list of women “allegedly sexually exploited by Hunter Biden” or notified the women of “statuary rights,” related to Hunter Biden’s behavior.

They have not responded to Ms. Greene and did not respond to an inquiry from The Times.

Hunter Biden’s exploits with prostitutes were first exposed when the hard drive from his discarded laptop computer was made public by the news media. The hard drive included photos of Hunter Biden doing drugs and engaging in sex acts with different women, many of them suspected prostitutes.

Ms. Greene displayed some of the photos at a public Oversight hearing, eliciting gasps from the room and protests from Democrats.

Ms. Greene said Hunter Biden had used his law firm to pay off the prostitutes, which was confirmed in the Treasury Department’s Suspicious Activity Report.

IRS whistleblowers confirmed Hunter Biden also attempted to write off some of the prostitute payments on his taxes.

Some of the payments he attempted to claim on his taxes as business expenses included $2,700 and $1,500 paid to an escort identified as “Gulnora.” Messages on Hunter Biden’s discarded laptop show he set up a Zelle link that would allow him to transfer money from his bank account to a “Gulnora Djamalitdinova.”

In a transcribed interview provided to House lawmakers by IRS whistleblowers, Gulnora, who is not identified with a last name, told federal investigators she was booked for an escort job with Hunter Biden, who told her “that his father was the vice president and asked [her] to Google search his name.” He showed her a photo of his father with President Obama, which she said scared her.

“[She] stated she told Biden she was not interested in Google searching his name, and just wanted to be paid,” according to the transcript.

Gulnora told investigators she charged $800 an hour and had two “appointments” with Hunter Biden.

IRS whistleblower Joseph Zeigler, a lead investigator in the Hunter Biden tax fraud case, pursued the prostitutes to get to the bottom of why the president’s son was paying them thousands of dollars and writing it off as business expenses or employee salaries.

“We found multiple people that he called his employees that were also prostitutes, and that he would have them clean his hotel room,” Mr. Ziegler told investigators in June.

He said Justice Department prosecutors discouraged IRS investigators from tracking down the women, telling them it was a waste of time.

Mr. Ziegler didn’t listen, he told House lawmakers.

“Literally, I would surprise them every time and find every one.”

• Susan Ferrechio can be reached at sferrechio@washingtontimes.com.