CIA Blocked IRS, DOJ Investigators from Interviewing Hunter Biden Patron Kevin Morris: Whistleblower

A whistleblower has come forward to congress with allegations the CIA prevented federal investigators from interviewing Hunter Biden’s friend and patron Kevin Morris as part of the investigation into Biden’s alleged tax violations.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R., Ky) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R., Ohio.) revealed the whistleblower allegations Thursday in a letter to CIA Director William Burns.

“According to the whistleblower, in August 2021, when IRS investigators were preparing to interview Patrick Kevin Morris, an associate of Hunter Biden, the CIA intervened to stop the interview,” the letter reads.

“Two DOJ officials were allegedly summoned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia for a briefing regarding Mr. Morris. At that meeting, it was communicated that Mr. Morris could not be a witness during the investigation.”

The committee chairmen are asking the CIA to provide all documents and communications related to the DOJ and IRS investigation of Hunter Biden, including those related to Kevin Morris. Comer and Jordan are leading the House GOP’s impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden alongside Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R., Mo.).

A wealthy entertainment lawyer, Morris has given Hunter Biden $6.5 million of forgivable loans since October 2021 to pay Biden’s personal expenses and roughly $2 million of his overdue taxes, according to a letter Morris’s attorney wrote to Comer and Jordan in January after Morris testified before congress.

Morris appears to be the “personal friend” listed in Hunter Biden’s federal tax indictment listing $1.2 million of expenses Morris paid for Hunter Biden from January to October 2020. The relationship between Morris and Hunter Biden began in late 2019 when Hollywood producer Lanette Phillips introduced them at a campaign fundraiser for then-Democratic candidate Joe Biden.

Morris first loaned Hunter Biden money in January 2020 and the two entered into a written loan agreement at a later date, he testified. The $190,000 Morris loaned Hunter Biden at that time went towards his overdue taxes. Hunter Biden is supposed to begin repaying Morris in 2025 based on the terms of their loan agreement.

The abnormalities surrounding the Justice Department’s handling of the Hunter Biden tax case fall under the scope of the impeachment inquiry. IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler came forward last year with detailed allegations of how Justice Department officials gave Hunter Biden special treatment throughout the investigation.

The testimony from Shapley and Ziegler resembles the new whistleblower’s allegation of obstruction by the CIA during the Biden investigation. Both whistleblowers described how DOJ officials allegedly slow-walked and obstructed investigative steps such as prospective interviews with witnesses and searches for relevant evidence.

Significant aspects of Shapley and Ziegler’s testimony have been confirmed by witness testimony from IRS, FBI and DOJ officials, including special counsel David Weiss, the U.S. Attorney for Delaware and lead prosecutor in the Hunter Biden case. In addition, the IRS whistleblowers turned over a trove of documents to the Ways and Means Committee substantiating their testimony.

Weiss is prosecuting Hunter Biden on nine federal tax charges for allegedly failing to pay over $1 million in taxes from 2016 through 2019. Hunter Biden also faces three federal gun charges related to his purchase of a firearm in October 2018 while he was addicted to illicit drugs. Morris is reportedly paying a substantial portion of Biden’s mounting legal bills and advising him on legal strategy.