‘Smear’: IRS Whistle­blow­er Responds To Hunter Biden Law­suit Tar­get­ing Him

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After news broke that Pres­i­dent Biden’s son Hunter had filed a law­suit against the IRS, IRS Super­vi­so­ry Spe­cial Agent Gary Shapley’s legal team issued a state­ment con­demn­ing the action.
Biden filed the law­suit claim­ing that IRS agents Gary Shap­ley and Joseph Ziegler revealed con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion about his tax­es in pub­lic inter­views and state­ments.
“This suit against the IRS is just anoth­er friv­o­lous smear by Biden fam­i­ly attor­neys try­ing to turn people’s atten­tion away from Hunter Biden’s own legal prob­lems and intim­i­date any cur­rent and future whistle­blow­ers,” the attor­neys for Shap­ley wrote.
“The fed­er­al judge in Delaware who over­saw the abort­ed plea deal shot down sim­i­lar claims against the whistle­blow­ers after they exposed the secret back­room deal between Hunter Biden and the Depart­ment of Jus­tice,” they con­tin­ued, refer­ring to Fed­er­al Dis­trict Court Judge Maryellen Nor­ei­ka, who put a plea deal between Hunter Biden’s law …