“In this case, the Whistleblower Office denied petitioners’ claims because the petitioners’ claims were never considered in an IRS action. Here, the Whistleblower Office forwarded petitioners’ claims to a classifier,” the IRS motion to dismiss argued last week “Following the classifiers’ preliminary review, the Classifier declined to forward petitioners’ claims to exam and recommended that it be forwarded to the CI [criminal investigation] division.
This is a long process that is moving forward. I take the above as a procedural thing that wasn’t done in the first filing.
Lots of info but sorting out the dates is confusing.
I don’t read it that Trump is opposing this. just get the procedure right.
There might also be an ‘ongoing investigation’ that if this were to move forward then the case might be endangered.
Also, the whistleblowers info, while noble intent, but the DOJ and IRS may have already had this info before they came forward, and so might want to dismiss on those grounds as well......................