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The CIA prevented federal investigators from the Justice Department and the IRS from interviewing Hunter Biden’s “sugar brother,” Kevin Morris, during a five-year investigation into the first son’s tax issues, the New York Post reported on Thursday.
The bombshell revelation comes from a whistleblower who gave the information to the House Oversight and House Judiciary Committee chairmen, The Post reported, noting that the individual “informed them the intelligence agency stopped IRS and Justice Department investigators from interviewing Morris in August 2021, a Hollywood lawyer and patron of the first son, according to a Thursday letter addressed to CIA Director William Burns.”
The whistleblower informed Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that two DOJ officials were summoned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., where they were informed that Morris “could not be a witness” for their investigation into Hunter Biden.
“It is unknown why or on what basis the CIA allegedly intervened to prevent investigators from interviewing Mr. Morris,” Comer and Jordan wrote in the letter, a copy of which was posted online by Jordan.
Whistleblower reveals the CIA stonewalled the IRS from interviewing Hunter Biden’s business associate — Kevin Morris.
What are they trying to hide? pic.twitter.com/3zCXsjm249
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) March 21, 2024
“However, these allegations track with other evidence showing how the DOJ deviated from its standard investigative practices during the investigation of Hunter Biden,” the letter stated.
The GOP lawmakers added that the whistleblower’s account “seems to corroborate our concerns about DOJ’s deviations from standard process to provide Hunter Biden with preferential treatment,” which they note has been uncovered as evidence during the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
They requested the CIA furnish all records it possesses concerning the DOJ and IRS investigation of Hunter Biden or related to Kevin Morris.
“CIA does not comment on specific investigations,” a spokesperson told The Post in response to an inquiry. “We can say that CIA cooperates with law enforcement partners and does not obstruct investigations. CIA also fully and routinely cooperates with our oversight committees and will continue to do so.”
Last year, two IRS whistleblowers claimed that the Justice Department shielded the president’s son by obstructing other witnesses from testifying and prohibiting tax investigators from posing questions that might implicate Biden.
Morris, 60, revealed during interviews with the House Ways and Means, Oversight, and Judiciary Committees on January 18 that he had lent at least $5 million to the 54-year-old first son after meeting him at a political fundraiser for his father in Hollywood in late 2019, The Post’s report noted further.
The outlet added:
Those loans began a month after he met Hunter and continued through 2022, as the Justice Department was finalizing its tax investigation into the president’s son, which initially resulted in a probation-only plea deal.
But that plea agreement imploded in a Delaware federal courtroom last July under questioning from US District Judge Maryellen Noreika, who asked prosecutors about the scope of an immunity provision buried in it.
Delaware US Attorney David Weiss was elevated to special counsel status by Attorney General Merrick Garland shortly after he brought the case. Weiss then proceeded to indict Hunter in Los Angeles for allegedly evading $1.4 million in tax payments.
Weiss also brought a separate indictment against the president’s son in Delaware. That indictment accused Hunter Biden of lying on a federal gun-purchasing form about his history of drug abuse—a period he discussed in his 2021 memoir “Beautiful Things.”
A substantial portion of the loans from Morris to Hunter Biden were allocated to cover his tax arrears. Morris informed members of the House impeachment panel that this debt would come due in 2025.
A former business associate of Hunter revealed during explosive testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday that a noted Democratic representative was made aware in October 2020 of text messages implicating then-presidential candidate Joe Biden was directly involved in business deals with son Hunter and brother James Biden.
Tony Bobulinski testified that he reached out to Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and “was begging” him “to go on CNN and tell the world in October 2020” about the allegations, indicating that initially he got a good reception from the lawmaker, the New York Post reported separately.
“You have always demonstrated to me that you are nothing but an honest, with the highest integrity, individual,” Khanna texted Bobulinski, the former Biden business associate told the committee during often-raucous testimony on Wednesday.
That said, Khanna “ducked out” of the hearing before bringing the issue up with Bobulinski during the hearing, The Post reported.
