The interview sheds additional light on the long-running investigation, a focal point of GOP allegations of wrongdoing by President Biden and his family.
The FBI agent overseeing the investigation of Hunter Biden disputed whistleblower claims that the prosecutor in charge of the probe was stymied by the Justice Department, according to the transcript of an interview with lawmakers that took place last week and was obtained by The Washington Post.
Weiss was appointed as the top federal prosecutor in Delaware during the Trump administration, and launched the Hunter Biden investigation while Donald Trump was in the White House. Attorney General Merrick Garland, a Biden administration appointee, kept Weiss on so he could continue the probe and pledged to give him full decision-making authority.
Sobocinski, who is the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Baltimore field office, noted there was “bureaucratic administrative process” Weiss had to work through to bring charges outside Delaware but that his understanding was “that had the authority to bring whatever he needed to do.”Pressed again on the issue later in the interview, he said, “I went into that meeting believing he had the authority, and I have left that meeting believing he had the authority to bring charges.
Asked whether he felt that his recollections about the Oct. 7 meeting differed from Shapley’s account, Sobocinski said he did, adding that he had conversations with “various members of the team” about the discrepancies. A spokesman for the Justice Department declined to comment. A spokesman for Weiss declined to comment.
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