Posted on 04/10/2025 5:52:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Shown, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, IRS pursuers of Hunter Biden. Speaking with RCI, the two men gave their first in-depth interviews about the tax-evasion case that upended their lives and careers, before their ultimate vindication.
Joe Ziegler is not a beaten man – not for his antagonists’ lack of trying. Across his seven-year pursuit of Hunter Biden’s unpaid taxes, Ziegler, a special agent in the Internal Revenue Service’s criminal investigative division, and his colleague Gary Shapley were shunned, threatened, and lied to. Ziegler was doxed. Shapley was told to accept a demotion or resign. Convinced the IRS and Department of Justice were stonewalling their efforts to bring charges against a sitting president’s son, the agents went public as whistleblowers in 2023.
The result, during the hyper-polarized years spanning the Trump-to-Biden-to-Trump administrations, was predictable: The two men were accused of partisanship, lambasted by Democratic members of Congress and the press, and had their reputations impugned by high-powered lawyers paid for by those sympathetic to the Bidens.
The fortunes of these political victims have now turned. In mid-March, incoming Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Ziegler and Shapley would start work as senior advisers, helping to guide tax reform.
Which is all the agents had ever wanted and tried to do. “At the end of the day, this is truly about doing the right thing and standing up for what is right,” Ziegler would testify before the House Ways & Means Committee in December 2023. “I will say this again and again, this is much bigger than the Hunter Biden investigation. This was not a personal attack on Hunter Biden, but a call for change.”
While the reprisals they say they endured for their acts of conscience appear to have ended, Ziegler and Shapely do not want their experience to be memory-holed
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I bet that the deep state still goes after them.
hopefully, the “deep state” has been paying their taxes...
Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, IRS pursuers of Hunter Biden , gave their first in-depth interviews about Biden’s tax-evasion case that upended their lives and careers, before their ultimate vindication.
Joe Ziegler is not a beaten man – not for his antagonists’ lack of trying.
Across his seven-year pursuit of Hunter Biden’s unpaid taxes, Ziegler, a special agent in the IRSe’s criminal investigative division, and his colleague Gary Shapley were shunned, threatened, and lied to.
Ziegler was doxed.
Shapley was told to accept a demotion or resign.
Convinced the IRS and DoJ were stonewalling their efforts to bring charges
against a sitting president’s son, the agents went public as whistleblowers in 2023.
Right thing to do, and make sure to give them their back pay.
BETCHA THERE ARE MORE CANDIDATES IN CONGRESS.
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