New evidence chronicles efforts to conceal Hunter Biden’s tax problems from voters in 2020

New evidence released by the House Ways and Means Committee from IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler chronicles Hunter Biden’s alleged efforts, with the help of Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris, to conceal delinquent taxes from the electorate as his father campaigned for the Democratic nomination in 2020.

Morris, a Democrat donor, lent millions to Hunter Biden so he could pay off the tax debts and cover other expenses after warning the tax issues posed “considerable risk personally and politically” for the future first family, according to testimony and documents Ziegler gave lawmakers.

The IRS agent supplemented his original whistleblower testimony from the summer with the documents at a closed door hearing Tuesday before the committee.

The new documents shed light on alleged Justice Department obstruction of the tax case and broader political interference in the investigation, but they also provided more details on the high-powered Hollywood lawyer’s assistance to Hunter Biden, confirming previous reporting by Just the News.

Ziegler told the committee that he got the impression the Biden campaign was behind Morris’ assistance to Hunter Biden, raising concerns of campaign finance violations, attorney Tristan Leavitt told the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show on Wednesday. Leavitt is president of the Empower Oversight center that represents the IRS whistleblowers.

“[As] the whistleblowers have shared some information previously regarding, Kevin Morris is someone who was donating or ‘loaning’ money to Hunter Biden, within just a couple months of having met him at a campaign fundraiser, New York Times reports, it was in December of 2019,” Leavitt said.

Ziegler’s evidence chronicled a two and a half hour “crisis meeting” at Morris’ home in Los Angeles and an email from Morris warning of the personal and political risk that Hunter Biden’s unresolved tax issues posed, Leavitt explained to Just the News.

As then-candidate Joe Biden’s campaign for the Democratic nomination was in full swing, Hunter Biden and his team of lawyers and accountants called a “crisis meeting” at the home of Kevin Morris in the Pacific Palisades, a high-end Los Angeles neighborhood. The date of this meeting is not stated in the documents, but it likely took place between Jan. 18 and Jan. 27, 2020, according to the chronology of an IRS interview memo.

The meeting was ostensibly to discuss Hunter Biden’s mounting tax issues. But Hunter Biden’s accountant Troy Schmidt told IRS, DOJ, and FBI investigators that the group ended up not discussing the tax returns at all, according to an interview memo Ziegler provided to the committee.

According to Ziegler, the tax loss for the entire investigation—which included failure to pay taxes on income from 2014 to 2019, some of which came from foreign sources like Burisma and Chinese companies—was almost $1.8 million. Schmidt was hired by Hunter Biden to prepare his unfiled tax returns.

Schmidt told investigators that Morris summoned him to his home for the meeting and “at the time, he had no idea what he was walking into,” the memo stated.

Schmidt said that meeting lasted two and a half hours, yet Hunter Biden’s tax returns were not a topic of discussion. The accountant told investigators that there were at least ten attendees, though he could only recall three lawyers—George Mesires, Kevin Morris, and Lindsey Wineberg — as well as Hunter Biden himself.

Schmidt told investigators that Morris had “first appeared” in his orbit two days before the meeting. The accountant said that Morris was an advisor to Hunter Biden as well as the Biden family, which did not surprise Schmidt because there were “a lot of attorneys” who worked for Hunter Biden, according to the memo.

You can read the interview memo below:

In an email to Schmidt that the IRS whistleblower turned over to Congress, Morris specifically highlighted the political risk of failing to file the returns in a timely manner.

“Emergency is off for today. Still need to file Monday- we are under considerable risk personally and politically to get the returns in,” Morris wrote Schmidt on Feb. 7, 2020.

“Sorry for the pressure earlier. Please send the issues list ASAP,” Morris continued, expressing urgency.

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