The CIA ordered tax investigators not to interview the ‘sugar brother’ who bailed out Hunter Biden with millions of dollars, a whistleblower has claimed.
Kevin Morris loaned the president’s son at least $5 million, bought his artwork, and made payments to Hunter’s ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, as well as Lunden Roberts, the mother of his illegitimate four-year-old daughter.
But federal officials investigating the first son’s tax affairs were summoned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and told them that Morris was off-limits to them.
Now the House leaders pursuing the president’s impeachment have written to CIA director William Burns demanding to know why.
‘The information we recently received from the whistleblower seems to corroborate our concerns about Department of Justice’s deviations from standard process to provide Hunter Biden with preferential treatment,’ claimed Oversight chairman James Comer and Judiciary chairman Jim Jordan.
Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris (left) has admitted loans of more than $5 million to Hunter Biden (right) which he has insisted will be repaid, after they were revealed
Morris, who was spotted smoking from a bong on the balcony of his Hollywood apartment, said he gave Hunter the cash partly because he feared the recovering addict would relapse
House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (left) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan have demanded to know why the CIA ruled Morris off-limits
Morris, 60, a Hollywood lawyer, was interviewed by the committees on January 18 and told them he began making payments to the Biden family after meeting Hunter in California at a political fundraiser in late 2019.
‘I had a very tribal feeling about Hunter,’ Morris told the committee.
‘He’s a guy. I have brothers he was in a lot of trouble.
‘I basically found him like a guy getting the crap beat out of him in a — by a gang of people. And, you know, where we come from, you don’t let that happen. You get in and you start swinging.’
He admitted flying Hunter across the country on his private jet and paying $875,000 for his art.
The payments lasted for three years, and Morris visited the White House three times after Hunter’s father took office in January 2021.
Morris said he partly gave Hunter the cash because he feared the recovering addict would relapse – which would hurt his president father.
‘I fear that he will relapse every — yes, and every day since. And I think that’s the intention of the people in the world out to get him.
‘Because they know getting him to relapse is the thing that will most upset his — will do the most impact on his father,’ Morris said.
But in August of 2021 CIA chiefs told DOJ officials that the well-heeled lawyer ‘could not be a witness’ for their investigation, the whistleblower claimed.
‘It is unknown why or on what basis the CIA allegedly intervened to prevent investigators from interviewing Mr Morris,’ Comer and Jordan wrote in their letter on Thursday.
‘We therefore write to request relevant material from the CIA.’
The payments took place during a five-year multi-agency investigation into whether Hunter had evaded tax on millions of dollars paid to him by companies in Ukraine, Russia, and China.
IRS whistlebowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler told the committees last year that they were warned by DOJ chiefs against interviewing people close to the president.
‘Anytime we potentially wanted to go down the road of asking questions related to the President, it was, ‘That’s going to take too much approvals. We can’t ask those questions’,’ Ziegler told the committee.
‘And, I mean, it created an environment that was very hard to deal with.’
Last year the DOJ offered Hunter a probation-only plea deal which was rejected by the president’s son for not ruling out a future prosecution.
Special counsel David Weiss has since indicted Hunter on nine charges of evading $1.4 million in tax with a trial date set for June 20 in Los Angeles.
The house chairmen have demanded an explanation from CIA director William Burns by April 4
The president’s son, seen during the middle of his drug addiction, faces up to 25 years if convicted of three charges related to lying about his drug use when purchasing a gun in 2018.
He also faces up to 25 years if convicted of three felony charges related to lying about his drug use when purchasing a gun in 2018.
Last month, Weiss published photos from Hunter’s iPhone and hard drive that the prosecutor said were proof he was using cocaine when he bought a gun.
But Hunter’s legal team says DOJ mistook sawdust for lines of cocaine during their investigation.
‘Mistaking sawdust for cocaine sounds more like a storyline from one of the 1980s Police Academy comedies than what should be expected in a high-profile prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice,’ his lawyers said.
Hunter denies the drug charges and that trial looks set to start in Delaware on June 3.