Posted on 05/16/2023 7:03:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent who alleges the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden has been corrupted by lies and politics is being pulled from the inquiry in a possible act of retaliation, lawyers for the IRS official say.
These attorneys informed Congress on Monday that their client, identified as a criminal supervisory special agent, was told “that he and his entire investigative team are being removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile, controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress,” according to The New York Post.
Mark Lytle and Tristan Leavitt, the lawyers for the IRS agent, said their client was “informed the change was at the request of the Department of Justice.” They also said the “move is clearly retaliatory and may also constitute obstruction of a congressional inquiry.”
The Daily Wire reached out to the IRS as well as the Department of Justice (DOJ) seeking comment on the new claim.
FBI and IRS investigators have reportedly been looking into Hunter Biden’s business dealings, tax affairs, and more for years now. After Biden’s lawyers met with Department of Justice officials late last month, sources told The Washington Post that potential charges for tax- and gun-related crimes may soon follow from Delaware’s U.S. Attorney David Weiss.
Hunter Biden has said he expects to be cleared of wrongdoing, and his father, President Joe Biden, told MSNBC this month that his son has “done nothing wrong.”
The IRS supervisory agent, who has not been publicly identified, reached out to top lawmakers last month seeking to make protected whistleblower disclosures to Congress about a high-profile investigation which has since been identified as the Hunter Biden probe. Lawyers for the IRS agent then met with congressional investigators, laying the groundwork for what could be a formal disclosure involving sensitive tax information in the near future, CNN reported this month.
Lytle has revealed that his client already made disclosures to multiple inspectors general, including “examples of preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions,” a “failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the ultimate disposition of the case,” and claims that “contradict sworn testimony to Congress by a senior political appointee.” Lytle told CBS News that his client has emails and other communications to back up his disclosures.
The senior official referenced by Lytle in his letter to Congress has been identified as Attorney General Merrick Garland, who spoke briefly about the inquiry during congressional testimony in March. “I pledged not to interfere with that investigation and I have carried through on my pledge,” Garland testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Pressed about the IRS whistleblower and his testimony during a recent news conference, Garland said his statement under oath remains true. “Yes, it’s still the case,” Garland said. “I stand by my testimony and I refer you to the U.S. attorney for the district of Delaware, who is in charge of this case and capable of making any decisions that he feels are appropriate.”
Hunter Biden’s attorney, Chris Clark, told news outlets the IRS official “appears” to have committed a crime. “It is a felony for an IRS agent to improperly disclose information about an ongoing tax investigation,” Clark said in a statement reported by NBC News.
Lytle told Fox News the statement was “unfortunate” but stressed that his client is not backing down. “Attacks like this are kind of what he was worried about, but he wants to come forward and tell the truth,” he said.
In their letter to lawmakers on Monday, the IRS agent’s lawyers highlighted sections of U.S. Code outlining rules against blocking or retaliating against officials seeking to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress and noted that IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel vowed to the House Committee on Ways and Means last month that there would be “no retaliation” against whistleblowers.
“We respectfully request that you give this matter your prompt attention,” the IRS agent’s lawyers wrote. “Removing the experienced investigators who have worked this case for years and are now the subject-matter experts is exactly the sort of issue our client intended to blow the whistle on to begin with.”
The Deep State will not be defeated at the ballot box or in the court room.
Until America gets on her knees, returns to God and repents, things will get continually worse.
If anyone thinks they can deal with the Devil by making "practical compromises" on Abortion and the many other perversions in society, they are mistaken.
If you compromise with Evil, you just get more Evil.........................
The whole federal gubmint is criminal
The question is whether a private conservative MAGA law firm will file a RICO lawsuit against the DOJ FBI, THe Biden family and the IRS.The plaintiff could be a State, like Texas or Florida.
This is pure racketeering.
Congressional COmmitttee on Weaponization needs to act on this immediately, give the whole IRS team whistle blower status and protective security.
In the beginning there was “Right” and “Wrong”, and we’ve been compromising in the wrong direction ever since.
It’s good to be the king.
“... The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Kings were beheaded for less....................
The corruption is near total.
Yes, they are so blatant that they obviously DO NOT CARE WHAT THE PUBLIC THINKS, SAYS OR DOES.
They have complete and total control: Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches PLUS THE BUREAURACY!.......................
The IRS is under Dept. of Treasury and is headed by an independent "commissioner" appointed directly by the President and approved by the Senate. In theory they have no connection to the Dept of Justice
If true, its just more proof that the DOJ is now America's KGB
Where is Kevin McCarthy?
Probably in Ukraine.............................😉
If true, its just more proof that the DOJ is now America’s GESTAPO....................
If I had any trust in the IRS I’d say this was smart from an independence of investigation aspect. But I don’t trust anyone.
If I had any trust in the IRS I’d say this was smart from an independence of investigation aspect. But I don’t trust anyone.
Another collosal abuse of power, and the gop are apparently powerless to stop it. Tyranny now runs rampant in gov.
Jealously Guarding the info he promised to release to tucker that would expose the bidens and ilk
They don’t even try to hide it any more..........................
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