(Headline USA) A CNN legal analyst admitted Monday that the Justice Department’s ludicrous slow-walking of the federal investigation into Hunter Biden was “beyond anything” he had ever seen.
“This is preposterous,” said senior legal analyst Elie Honig. “This has been pending, according to our reporting at CNN, since 2018—five years.”
Honig pointed out that the scope of the federal probe, which is focused on possible tax violations and money laundering stemming from his international business deals, as well as an illegal gun purchase.
“By the way, this investigation is not the laptop,” Honig, a former Manhattan assistant U.S. attorney, explained.
“This investigation is a tax issue: Did Hunter Biden declare his income? And a sort of obscure gun law: Did he possess a gun while he was addicted to drugs—which you’re not allowed to do under federal law—did he lie about that?” he continued. “But five years? I mean, that’s a five-week investigation. And this spans the Trump administration and the Biden administration.”
The slow pace of the probe has been a particular sticking point for supporters of former President Donald Trump, who was criminally indicted for the second time in just a few short weeks under what many consider to be highly dubious circumstances involving novel interpretations of the law.
Honig said that “someone’s got to make a call on this case.”
“I don’t know what is going on,” he said. “It’s beyond anything I’ve seen before.”
An IRS whistleblower accused the Justice Department last month of deliberately slow-walking the investigation into Hunter Biden for political reasons.
The whistleblower, who had been tasked with overseeing the probe into Hunter Biden’s finances, said prosecutors’ handling of the case was so off-base that he felt the need to come forward.
“There were multiple steps that were slow-walked—were just completely not done—at the direction of the Department of Justice,” Gary Shapley, a 14-year veteran of the agency, told CBS News.
When I took control of this particular investigation, I immediately saw deviations from the normal process,” he added. “It was way outside the norm of what I’ve experienced in the past.”
