(TheRedAlertNews.com) – It clearly pays off to be Joe Biden’s son as Hunter Biden has received nearly $5 million for no apparent reason from a man now famous as his “sugar brother” – Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris, according to the latest revelations on the scandalous first son by an IRS whistleblower.
IRS agent Joe Ziegler has disclosed to the GOP-led House Ways and Means Committee this week that Hunter Biden received the staggering $4.9 million from Morris over three years.
Ziegler is one of the two IRS whistleblowers who worked on the first son’s investigation, and who testified to Congress in the spring that Hunter Biden received favorable treatment by the US Justice Department.
The sum Ziegler has revealed represents a significant escalation from previously known figures about the cash Morris gave President Joe Biden’s son to cover his tax debts, The New York Post points out.
Hunter, 53, reportedly met Morris for the first time at a December 2019 campaign fundraiser.
Ziegler’s new congressional testimony comes as House Republicans approach a vote to potentially authorize an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, examining his possible involvement in his family’s international business dealings.
Earlier reports had suggested that Morris covered about $2 million of Hunter’s tax liabilities and purchased some of his early artwork.
The reasons behind Morris’s financial support of Hunter and the genuineness of their relationship have been subjects of debate among Republicans.
During his Tuesday testimony, Ziegler presented an email from February 7, 2020 — two months after Hunter and Morris met — showing Morris contacting accountants on Hunter’s behalf and urging prompt action to mitigate “considerable risk personally and politically.”
Ziegler, who probed Hunter’s taxes for five years before being removed from the case in 2023, noted that Hunter’s income from Morris, partially classified as loans, seemed to mirror Hunter’s attempts to evade taxes on other earnings by labeling them as loans.
“Hunter appeared to follow a pattern of attempting to avoid paying taxes on relevant income. This first started with Hunter not reporting the [Ukrainian gas company] Burisma income in 2014 and allegedly falsely claiming that it was a loan to him,” Ziegler said in his opening statement.
“He, again, tried to claim the millions in [Chinese] income earned from Hudson West III was a loan to him, which was refuted by the evidence and was not allowed by his tax accountants,” the whistleblower declared.
Ziegler and his investigative team were allegedly removed from the tax fraud case against Hunter on Justice Department orders in May, following public allegations of a cover-up involving preferential treatment for the first family by Ziegler and his supervisor, Gary Shapley.
