Hunter Biden's lawsuit against the IRS is another effort to intimidate whistleblowers who testified President Joe Biden's son received special treatment from the federal government, according to attorneys for one of the whistleblowers.
Empower Oversight, a group that provides legal representation for whistleblowers, said in a statement the lawsuit was a"frivolous smear" against client Gary Shapley, a veteran IRS criminal investigator who testified to Congress about missteps during the Department of Justice's yearslong investigation into the younger Biden.
"These agents' putative 'whistleblower' status cannot and does not shield them from their wrongful conduct in making unauthorized public disclosures that are not permitted by the whistleblower process," Lowell wrote. The gun crimes first surfaced as part of a plea deal special counsel David Weiss reached with Hunter Biden in June. However, the deal was never finalized after a federal judge raised points about how it could shield the president's son from future charges.
Shapley and Ziegler, for their part, alleged to Congress in May that Weiss had limited authority over the Hunter Biden case and that U.S. attorneys in Washington, D.C., and California had blocked Weiss from bringing charges against the president's son in those jurisdictions. They also alleged the case was"slow-walked" and that federal investigators faced abnormal roadblocks.
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