IRS whistleblower attorneys return fire when Hunter Biden’s council attacks with ‘innuendo and bluster’

IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley’s attorneys returned fire Friday after Hunter Biden’s counsel slammed congressional Republicans for their investigation into President Joe Biden’s youngest son.

The drama began earlier Friday when one of Hunter’s attorneys, Abbe Lowell, sent a letter to House Ways and Means Committee chair Jason Smith essentially accusing him of running a sham investigation.

In the letter, he called the investigation “an obvious ploy to feed the misinformation campaign to harm our client, Hunter Biden, as a vehicle to attack his father.”

He also suggested that Shapley and the other IRS whistleblower came forward with allegations of malfeasance “in an attempt to evade their own misconduct.”

And he claimed that the “timing of the agents’ leaks and your subsequent decision to release their statements do not seem innocent.”

As previously reported, last week Smith released transcripts of the committee’s interviews, conducted months earlier, with Shapley and the other whistleblower.

Lowell continued by even questioning the legitimacy of the infamous WhatsApp text message in which Hunter Biden reportedly had threatened a Chinese official by citing his dad.

“The screen-grab images you posted are not real and contain myriad of issues….In short, the images you circulated online are complete fakes,” the attorney wrote.

Lastly, Lowell accused Shapley of being the person behind an Oct. 6th, 2022 leak to The Washington Post revealing that U.S. Attorney David Weiss was considering tax and gun-purchase charges against Hunter.

Responding to this letter later Friday, Shapley’s legal team published a blistering press release accusing Lowell of trying to intimidate their client with “innuendo and bluster.”

“Biden family lawyers have resorted to intimidation before—reportedly threatening federal prosecutors with ‘career suicide’ if they charged Hunter Biden—so this attempt to intimidate our client and the oversight authorities scrutinizing the politicization of that case is no surprise,” they wrote.

They continued by claiming Shapley “has scrupulously followed the rules” in blowing the whistle and that he wasn’t the Oct. 6th leaker.

“Falsely alleging that he was a leaker is just another baseless attack on him for blowing the whistle,” they wrote.

Lastly, they blasted Lowell’s “bogus allegations,” writing, “All the innuendo and bluster that Biden family lawyers can summon will not change the facts.”

“Lawful whistleblowing is the opposite of illegal leaking, and these bogus accusations against SSA Shapley by lawyers for the Biden family echo threatening emails sent by IRS leadership after the case agent also blew the whistle to the IRS Commissioner about favoritism in this case—as well as the chilling report that Biden attorneys have also lobbied the Biden Justice Department directly to target our client with criminal inquiry in further retaliation for blowing the whistle,” they continued.

“These threats and intimidation have already been referred earlier this week to the inspectors general for DOJ and the IRS, and to Congress for further investigation as potential obstruction of their lawful inquiries as well as retaliation against our client,” they concluded.

Smith also responded to Lowell’s letter.

“It’s little surprise that Hunter Biden’s attorneys are attempting to chill our investigation and discredit the whistleblowers who say they have already faced retaliation from the IRS and the Department of Justice despite statutory protections established by law. These whistleblowers bravely came forward with allegations about misconduct and preferential treatment for Hunter Biden – and now face attacks even from an army of lawyers he hired,” he said in a statement.

“Worse, this letter misleads the public about the lawful actions taken by the Ways and Means Committee, which took the appropriate legal steps to share this information with rest of Congress. It doesn’t even address concerns that counsel for Mr. Biden was regularly tipped off about potential warrants and raids in pursuit of evidence that implicated him, as well as his father. We will continue to go where the facts take us—and we will not abandon our investigation just because Mr. Biden’s lawyers don’t like it,” he added.

Vivek Saxena

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