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.

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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- …