Biden-appointed U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California E. Martin Estrada will testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday about his role in the Hunter Biden case, a source familiar confirmed to the Daily Caller.
Estrada will appear before the committee to address accusations by IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler that he refused to cooperate with Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss on potentially charging Hunter Biden for alleged tax offenses in his district. (RELATED: James Biden Told Healthcare Firm His Last Name Could ‘Open Doors’ And Promised Middle East Investment, Court Docs Show)
I reviewed the Graves transcript for @DailyCaller and this claim is simply false. Graves said he refused to partner with Weiss on potentially charging Hunter Biden in D.C. and explained the entire timeline behind his decision.https://t.co/TFvdizuFvf https://t.co/R3blYK9yHR
— James Lynch (@jameslynch32) October 23, 2023
The IRS whistleblower allegations related to Estrada were independently confirmed by The New York Times, which cited a source with knowledge of the situation. An FBI agent on the Hunter Biden case confirmed Estrada’s decision during testimony before the Judiciary Committee, and an IRS official confirmed Estrada’s decision when he testified in front of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Shapley and Ziegler provided a trove of documents to the Ways and Means Committee substantiating the accusations in their testimony to the committee. Hunter Biden is suing the IRS for alleged illegal disclosures by the whistleblowers in their testimony and media appearances.
Estrada assumed his role in September 2022 after he was nominated by President Joe Biden and confirmed unanimously by the Senate, his official bio states. When he was in the private sector, Estrada donated to then-Democratic California Senate candidate Kamala Harris, Federal Election Commission records show.
Likewise, Matthew Graves, the Biden-appointed U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, testified to the Judiciary Committee earlier in October and said he refused to partner with Weiss, according to a transcript reviewed by the Daily Caller. Graves also said he did not believe there was a conflict of interest stemming from his appointment by President Biden, work for Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign and political donations to the campaign.
Attorney General Merrick Garland told the Judiciary Committee in September that U.S. attorneys “could refuse to partner” with Weiss on the Hunter Biden case. Garland repeatedly asserted Weiss could have requested section 515 authority to charge Hunter Biden outside of his district. Weiss is scheduled to testify in November to address the accusations surrounding his authority in the Hunter Biden case prior to his special counsel designation.
Garland appointed Weiss special counsel in August to continue the Hunter Biden investigation after his guilty plea deal collapsed in court. Biden pleaded not guilty to two tax misdemeanors in Delaware after a dispute between the DOJ and his legal team surrounding an immunity provision inside the pretrial diversion agreement for his felony gun charge.
Weiss filed a motion in August to dismiss Biden’s Delaware tax charges in order to potentially charge him in another jurisdiction. Delaware U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika approved Weiss’ motion and the charges were dismissed without prejudice. No new tax charges have been leveled against Hunter Biden.
The younger Biden was indicted in September on three federal gun charges tied to his October 2018 purchase of a Colt Cobra revolver while he was allegedly addicted to crack cocaine. He pleaded not guilty to the gun charges at an Oct. 3 arraignment in Delaware.
Henry Rodgers contributed to this report.