In a recent House Oversight Committee hearing, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) caused a stir by presenting explicit images of Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, in compromising positions with various women. The images were part of Greene's questioning of IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler.
Greene began her questioning by warning viewers that the images were disturbing and advised parental discretion. She then proceeded to question Ziegler about whether Hunter Biden had violated the federal Mann Act of 1910, which prohibits the transportation of women across state lines for immoral purposes.
The Georgia congresswoman presented an image of a receipt for a United Airlines plane ticket, which she claimed was evidence of Hunter Biden booking a woman on a flight from Los Angeles to Dulles Airport in Northern Virginia in June 2018. The receipt was allegedly found on Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop.
Greene then presented a censored image of a woman caressing Hunter Biden, arguing that this was a violation of the Mann Act. "So when Hunter Biden paid for this woman to do this with him to travel across state lines from California to Washington DC on June 15 — this is a violation of the Mann Act. This was prostitution," she stated.
The congresswoman also raised allegations that Hunter Biden used funds from his law firm, Owasco P.C., to pay for prostitutes. She asked Ziegler, "Can you confirm for me that Hunter Biden had written off payments to prostitutes through his law firm?" Ziegler responded that he was limited in what he could say in response.
Greene continued her line of questioning by discussing a bank-created suspicious activity report claiming a "victim" was paid through Hunter Biden's law firm for prostitution. Ziegler again declined to confirm whether the first son wrote off payments to prostitutes from Owasco’s accounts, again citing the parameters of his testimony.
The hearing also featured testimony from Gary Shapley, another IRS whistleblower, about allegations that the federal probe of Hunter Biden was rife with favoritism. They had previously alleged that Delaware US Attorney David Weiss, who helmed the probe, was stymied from pursuing additional charges against Hunter Biden in both Southern California and in Washington, DC.
Weiss has since publicly maintained that he had "ultimate authority" in his inquiry, though he did caveat in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee that "my charging authority is geographically limited to my home district."
Hunter Biden is slated to attend a federal court hearing in Wilmington, Del. on July 26 to enter his plea. He has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay his federal income taxes in 2017 and 2018, per court documents. He will also enter a pretrial diversion agreement for a felony charge of possession of a firearm while addicted to illicit drugs.