Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show that not one, but two federal prosecutors who refused U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ requests to charge Hunter Biden, had previously given money to either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.
When U.S. Attorney David Weiss requested he U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia to each bring tax charges against Hunter Biden, his requests were rejected. IRS Whistleblower Gary Shapley testified that the rejections came from Biden-appointed U.S. Attorney for D.C. Matthew Graves and Biden-appointed U.S Attorney for the Central District of California E. Martin Estrada.
Weiss requested special counsel authority after each request was rejected, only to be denied yet again by Attorney General Merrick Garland, according to Shapley. Even the New York Times confirmed the DOJ Prosecutor was blocked from bringing charges against Hunter Biden.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reports that the two prosecutors who rejected Weiss’ requests, had both donated to Joe Biden’s campaign, and the other to then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ Democratic primary campaign.
When Graves was working at DLA Piper, he donated to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on two separate occasions, FEC records show. Graves gave Biden for President $500 in April 2020 and $1,000 in May 2020 during the Democratic presidential primary. Prior to his work at DLA Piper, Graves worked in the Fraud and Corruption unit in the U.S. Attorney’s office and was promoted to Acting Chief of the division in 2015.
Estrada worked in the private sector as a partner for the Los Angeles-based law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP. The firm’s website says “diversity, equity and inclusion” has been a “cornerstone of our firm” since its founding in 1962. Law360 ranked Munger Tolles & Olson in seventh place for its “high percentage of equity partners of color,” and the firm got a perfect score from LGBTQ activist organization Human Rights Campaign’s 2020 Corporate Equality Index.
In 2015, Estrada donated $500 to then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ Democratic primary campaign for the state’s open Senate seat, FEC records show. Harris served in the Senate from 2017-21, when she was sworn in as Vice President.
