IRS whistleblower’s team fights back against Hunter Biden lawsuit
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Tristan Leavitt, the attorney representing IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley, warned on Monday that the attorneys of first son Hunter Biden are ramping up retaliatory prosecution attempts against the IRS whistleblowers.
Leavitt pushed back on claims that the whistleblowers were leaking unauthorized, private information about Biden.
Tristan Leavitt’s interview on WMAL Radio 105.9 FM, Washington, D.C.
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He said the laws allow for “taxpayer privacy” but also provide the importance of disclosures by whistleblowers of the information, referencing the tax code.
“To accuse these individuals, our client Gary Shapley as well as the other IRS whistleblower Joe Ziegler, of breaking the law is just not based on anything at all in the statutes,” Leavitt said to WMAL.
Gary Shapley, a 14-year IRS veteran and supervisory special agent, was the first whistleblower to come forward with the allegations against the Justice Department, claiming that they gave preferential treatment to President Joe Biden’s son.
IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler was known only as “Whistleblower X” before he testified to the House Oversight Committee. The 13-year veteran of the IRS had led the agency’s federal investigation into Hunter Biden.
Leavitt said they first saw Biden’s legal team’s allegation against the whistleblowers when Hunter Biden’s attorneys had written to the Justice Department recommending they should prosecute the whistleblowers.
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On Monday, Hunter Biden’s legal team filed a lawsuit against the IRS, claiming the two whistleblowers violated his right to privacy and were trying to “embarrass” him by making his financial information public.
Biden’s lawsuit seeks to “force compliance with federal tax and privacy laws” and stop the “unlawful disclosure” of the president’s son. The lawsuit was filed on Monday in Washington’s federal court.