Both DOJ prosecutors who allegedly refused to charge Hunter Biden happen to be Joe Biden and Kamala Harris donors: Report

Attorney General Merrick Garland has repeatedly claimed that U.S. Attorney David Weiss, the Trump appointee who led the Department of Justice's investigation into Hunter Biden, had all the authority necessary to bring charges against the Democratic president's son.

In sworn testimony before a U.S. Senate committee on April 26, 2022, Garland said Weiss could do so without "interference of any political or improper kind."

Garland said again last week, "[Weiss] was given complete authority to make all decisions on his own."

However, IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley revealed to congressional investigators — and the New York Times has since confirmed — that two U.S. attorneys, one in California and the other in the District of Columbia, refused to bring charges against the Democratic president's son when asked by Weiss.

The Daily Caller has revealed that both prosecutors who allegedly refused Weiss' request, U.S. Attorney for D.C. Matthew Graves and U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California E. Martin Estrada, have previously thrown cash to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Federal Election Commission records show that Martin, while a partner for the Los Angeles-based law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, pitched $500 in 2015 to then-California Attorney General Harris' Senate campaign.

While at the law firm DLA Piper, Graves dumped $500 into Biden's presidential campaign in April 2020, then another $1,000 in May 2020.

Biden nominated Graves to his current position in July 2021 and gave Estrada his blessing last summer.

"Prosecutors stated that they presented the case to the Central District of California in mid-September. That happened to correspond with the confirmation of the President Biden appointee to the United States attorney, Martin Estrada. The case agent and I asked to participate in that presentation, but it was denied," testified Shapley.

"In January of this year, I learned United States Attorney Estrada had declined to bring the charges in the Central District of California. For all intents and purposes, the case was dead, with the exception of one gun charge that could be brought in Delaware," added the IRS whistleblower.

Graves, who personally invested in the current administration, was allegedly also unwilling to go after the president's son.

"From March 2022 through October 7, 2022, I was under the impression that, based on AG Garland's testimony before Congress and statements by U.S. Attorney Weiss and prosecutors, that they were still deciding whether to charge 2014 and 2015 tax violations," said Shapley. "However, I would later be told by United States Attorney Weiss that the D.C. U.S. attorney would not allow U.S. Attorney Weiss to charge those years in his district."

When Weiss reportedly tried going around Graves, Shapley indicated his request to the Department of Justice "was denied and that he was told to follow DOJ's process. That process meant no charges would ever be brought in the District of Columbia, where the statute of limitations on the 2014 and '15 charges would eventually expire."

Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, Jason Smith (R-Mo.), chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, and James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, sent a letter to Garland Thursday, noting that the recent "startling testimony from Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers raises serious questions about the Department's commitment to evenhanded justice and the veracity of assertions made to the Committee on the Judiciary."

In an effort to ascertain whether "the Department's investigation of Hunter Biden was purposely slow-walked and subjected to improper and politically motivated interference," the chairmen requested that Graves, Estrada, and other U.S. attorneys be made available for transcribed interviews.

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