An attorney for an alleged IRS whistleblower is throwing light on critical conversations that highlighted divides between prosecutors and investigators on how to continue with a criminal investigation targeting President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden.
Tristan Leavitt, one of the whistleblower's attorneys, wrote a letter to the US Office of Special Counsel in October 2022 detailing a series of meetings in which tensions arose between federal prosecutors and certain investigators working on the Hunter Biden case.
Second IRS Whistleblower in Hunter Biden Probe Claims Retaliation
Leavitt wrote that on October 7, 2022, the office of a United States attorney, which is not named in the letter but which CNN has learned is the office of Delaware US Attorney David Weiss, "became aware that both the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation had longstanding concerns about the handling of the case."
Via his lawyers, the IRS whistleblower has accused the government of interfering with their investigation into the president's son.
According to a separate letter from the lawyers, the whistleblower plans to address his concerns to the Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee on Friday. The attorneys for the whistleblower also voiced their disappointment in the committees' inability to schedule a joint interview with the client in that letter.
The memo provides additional information on internal fights over how to continue with the inquiry, which CNN has reported included disagreements over the strength of a possible case against Hunter Biden.
The prosecution is considering filing charges linked to suspected tax offenses and a false statement. According to Hunter Biden, he did nothing wrong. According to the whistleblower's lawyers, a "high-profile, sensitive issue" was being investigated. CNN has confirmed with multiple sources that the individual in question is Hunter Biden.
According to communications received by the first whistleblower's attorneys, the second whistleblower was threatened with criminal activity after voicing concerns about Hunter Biden's case treatment.
In a fresh letter sent to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel on Saturday, attorneys representing the original IRS whistleblower, Tristan Leavitt and Mark Lytle, the president of Empower Oversight and a partner at Nixon Peabody LLP, respectively, detailed the claimed retaliation.
In a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner from congressional sources, the attorneys wrote, "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.
The IRS case agent had expressed concerns about the Hunter Biden investigation. But, IRS management reacted swiftly, "accusing other agents of illegal conduct and warning them in an apparent attempt to scare them into silence."
Per Washington Examiner, these new claims of impropriety are the latest to surface about the federal government's treatment of probable tax fraud allegations initially made by Hunter Biden in 2020, just after his father was elected president.
In April and May, lawyers representing the first IRS whistleblower filed letters to Congress outlining allegations of impropriety in the government probe of Vice President Joe Biden's son. Lawyers for the whistleblower have accused the government agency of "obviously retaliatory" behavior.
Hunter Biden Case Investigators Were Fired
On Monday, records given to Congress revealed that all of the investigators probing tax fraud and associated offenses committed by President Biden's son Hunter Biden had been fired. The latest whistleblower is a former IRS special agent who worked on the Hunter Biden case from when it was started in 2018 until last week when he was abruptly terminated.
The agent's worries about the Justice Department's handling of the probe echo those of his supervisor, who will testify privately before the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday. Both IRS whistleblowers report severe retaliation accusations in fresh disclosures to Congress, despite years of ignored internal complaints.
He should have paid taxes on the money despite receiving millions of dollars from overseas contacts who communicated with then-Vice President Joseph Biden, Hunter, 53. In emails on his forgotten laptop, Hunter Biden complained about giving his father "half" of his money, as per the NY Post.
After the IRS supervisor in charge of the investigation since January 2020 contacted Congress on April 19 to allege "preferential treatment" and false testimony to Congress by Attorney General Merrick Garland, he and his 12 subordinates were removed from the case, allegedly on orders from the Justice Department.
Related Article : Hunter Biden Probe Could Get 'A Little Worse' After News of Taking Private Jet to Court Hearing Sparks Backlash
