Biden Names Ex-Hunter Colleague to Helm Whistleblower Agency; President’s Watchdog Nominee May ‘Run to Hunter Biden’s Rescue,’ Chuck Grassley Warns

Biden names ex-Hunter colleague to helm whistleblower agency:

President Biden selected an old legal colleague of his son Hunter Biden to helm the US Office of Special Counsel, whose primary purpose is protecting whistleblowers — like the ones who have alleged political interference in the five-year-old probe of the presidential scion.

Hampton Dellinger, nominated by Biden for the post of US Special Counsel Wednesday, worked on the Crisis Management and Government Response team at Boies Schiller Flexner in 2014.

Hunter Biden tapped that firm to assist Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings in 2014 and had dinner with Dellinger and others in March that same year, emails from his abandoned laptop show.

The younger Biden served on the board of Burisma from 2014 to 2019. It is unclear whether Dellinger did any legal work on Burisma’s behalf.

Back in July, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and other Republicans urged current Special Counsel Henry Kerner to probe claims of retaliation by IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley and agent Joseph Ziegler.

Those whistleblowers have accused the Justice Department of meddling and favoritism in the sprawling inquiry of Hunter Biden.

“The president thumbed his nose at SSA Shapley and SA Zeigler with the nomination of his son’s former law partner to an agency overseeing their whistleblower cases,” Shapley’s legal team said in a statement to The Post. —>READ MORE HERE

EXCLUSIVE: President’s Watchdog Nominee May ‘Run to Hunter Biden’s Rescue,’ Chuck Grassley Warns

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, co-founder of the Senate’s Whistleblower Caucus, is raising concerns about President Joe Biden’s choice to run the government’s Office of Special Counsel.

Biden on Tuesday nominated Hampton Dellinger, a former colleague of first son Hunter Biden at the Washington law firm of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, to head the independent federal agency.

“Dellinger’s partisan past casts doubt on his capacity to serve in what should be a strictly nonpartisan, independent role,” Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, said in a written statement to The Daily Signal late Wednesday on Biden’s nominee.

“Questions remain as to whether Dellinger would be up for the job of supporting all whistleblowers, or whether he, like so many other Biden appointees, would run to Hunter Biden’s rescue instead,” the Iowa Republican added.

Dellinger worked at Boies Schiller Flexner from May 2013 to November 2020, when the elder Biden won the presidency, according to the lawyer’s LinkedIn page.

The younger Biden, who worked at the same D.C. law firm from 2010 to 2017, brought in Ukrainian energy company Burisma as a client when he took a seat on its board for $50,000 a month.

Hunter Biden’s father was vice president in the Obama administration from 2009 through 2016.

A key role of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel is to investigate complaints made by government whistleblowers, several of which figure in the House’s investigation of the younger Biden’s business dealings in China and other foreign nations.

The Senate must vote to confirm Biden’s nomination of Dellinger to direct the office with the title of special counsel.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will consider the nomination, said the Senate should review the association with Hunter Biden. —>READ MORE HERE

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