The prosecutor accused of obstructing the investigation of Hunter Biden is reportedly no longer working at the Justice Department.
Lesley Wolf, an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware who was interviewed by the House Judiciary Committee behind closed doors Thursday, left the DOJ some weeks ago, Fox News reported, citing “a source familiar with the situation.”
“The source said Wolf had longstanding plans to leave the Department of Justice and did so weeks ago,” Fox News noted.
IRS whistleblower David Shapley had alleged that Wolf tried to limit questions in the Hunter Biden investigation headed by special counsel David Weiss.
Wolf “interjected and said she did not want to ask about the big guy and stated she did not want to ask questions about ‘dad,”‘ according to Shapley.
According to a release by the Ways & Means Committee in September, there was “a campaign by the Justice Department to protect the Biden family from investigation” and this “Biden protection effort was strongest whenever investigative steps might have led to or implicated actions taken by Joe Biden.”
The documents released by the Ways & Means Committee allege that Wolf instructed FBI agents that “someone needs to redraft” the search warrant affidavit.
“There should be nothing about Political Figure 1 in here,” she reportedly wrote in an email.
“In an August 2020 email, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf ordered investigators to remove any reference to ‘Political Figure 1’ from a search warrant. Subsequent documents released today show that President Biden is ‘Political Figure 1,'” the Committee noted.
Bombshell: Ways and Means Releases New Documents Revealing Hunter Biden Selling Access to White House, Investigators Blocked from Pursuing Evidence Related to President Bidenhttps://t.co/mFnmemvu6H pic.twitter.com/Pwsj8zKiLw
— Leslie Mack (@lesliemack) September 27, 2023
Veteran IRS agent Joseph Ziegler, who worked on the case for five years, told Fox News Thursday that Wolf’s email is “super important” because “it’s a one-off example in writing of the constant concern of following investigative leads that might lead to Joe Biden.”
“The FBI agents who drafted that affidavit, they believed that they had sufficient evidence — probable cause — to support including Political Figure 1 in that affidavit,” he said.
“That related to Burisma, access to Joe Biden and access to the administration and there was ample evidence that was included in that affidavit that’s supported including Political Figure 1. That has a waterfall effect on the investigation because those emails that we’re searching for might not come through to the team,” the whistleblower added.
Last month, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) issued a subpoena for Wolf to appear for a transcribed interview, noting that she had “first-hand knowledge” about Hunter Biden’s case and was present at “a substantial majority, if not all” of the meetings held by the special counsel’s office.
“Given your critical role you played in the investigation of Hunter Biden, you are uniquely situated to shed light on whether President Biden played any role in the Department’s investigation and whether he attempted, in any way, to directly or indirectly obstruct either that investigation or our investigation,” Jordan’s November letter to Wolf stated.
In her opening remarks to lawmakers in her closed-door deposition Thursday, Wolf reportedly said she is still bound by DOJ policy from addressing certain allegations even though she is no longer with the department, NBC News reported.
“Wolf left DOJ a few weeks ago after a 16-year career, a decision that she said predated the allegations against her,” the outlet added. “She also told Congress Thursday that she stayed with the department months longer than planned because she was being threatened and harassed due to allegations related to the Hunter Biden investigation. Wolf said she believed she and her family were safer while she still worked for the U.S. attorney’s office.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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