There’s a 2nd IRS whistleblower on the Hunter Biden case raising concerns about DOJ “acting inappropriately” who was then quickly threatened with possible criminal violation, as the 1st whistleblower gave new details on retaliation he & his team face.
A second IRS whistleblower has alleged retaliation for raising concerns that Justice Department leadership was "acting inappropriately" on the investigation into Hunter Biden, the Washington Examiner has learned.
The allegations from an IRS case agent come a month after an IRS supervisory special agent revealed to Congress politics had infected the case involving President Joe Biden's son.
Both whistleblowers were removed from the federal investigation into possible Hunter Biden tax violations this month. Communications obtained by the first whistleblower's lawyers show that the second whistleblower was threatened with allegations of criminal conduct after raising concerns about the handling of Hunter Biden's case.
The lawyers for the initial IRS whistleblower, Tristan Leavitt and Mark Lytle, the president of Empower Oversight and a partner at Nixon Peabody LLP, respectively, fired off a new letter to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel on Saturday in which they outlined the alleged retaliation.
“Our client learned that one of the agents he supervises — the case agent on the case our client is blowing the whistle on — sent you an email” on Thursday in which the IRS case agent raised concerns about the Hunter Biden investigation, the lawyers wrote in a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner from congressional sources. But IRS leadership quickly responded “with accusations of criminal conduct and warnings to other agents in an apparent attempt to intimidate into silence anyone who might raise similar concerns.”
The IRS must desist from "intimidating," the lawyers wrote, "lest they chill the disclosures of other IRS whistleblowers who may wish to come forward.”
The revelations are the latest claims of wrongdoing into how the federal government is handling the allegations of possible tax fraud that Hunter Biden first revealed in 2020 immediately after his father won the White House. Joe Biden has routinely stood by his son and earlier this month claimed, "My son has done nothing wrong."
Lawyers for the initial IRS whistleblower sent letters to Congress in April and May providing details of alleged wrongdoing related to the federal investigation into President Joe Biden’s son. The whistleblower’s attorneys have claimed the agency engaged in "clearly retaliatory" action against their client.
Leavitt also sent a separate letter to the Office of Special Counsel on Wednesday, in which he said his client, a supervisory special agent with the IRS’s criminal investigation division, has allegedly been retaliated against numerous times for making “protected disclosures” in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
The letters to Werfel and the Office of Special Counsel were included in a letter to Congress on Monday evening, wherein the lawyers revealed their client is scheduled to speak with the GOP-led House Ways and Means Committee this Friday.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...rns-retaliated
- berryberry
- 05-23-2023, 12:48 AM
- berryberry
- 05-23-2023, 12:51 PM
This is the second IRS whistleblower Senile Biden has retaliated against
- Jacuzzme
- 05-23-2023, 01:02 PM
“Acting inappropriate”. LOL! How about not acting at all or, what they’re actually doing, acting to bury anything they don’t like that casts their preferred candidate in a negative light.
- berryberry
- 05-23-2023, 03:21 PM
“Acting inappropriate”. LOL! How about not acting at all or, what they’re actually doing, acting to bury anything they don’t like that casts their preferred candidate in a negative light. Originally Posted by JacuzzmeIndeed. Didn't the crazy ass leftists tell us whistleblowers were protected. Guess they aren't protected if they blow the whistle of Democrat corruption