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A whistleblower has come forward to confirm allegations brought by over 40 attorneys general that the nonprofit Polaris Project, contracted by the federal government to run the National Human Trafficking Hotline, routinely fails to pass along pertinent trafficking tips to law enforcement. Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), wrote a letter Monday laying out the whistleblower …

Newly-unredacted IRS and FBI search warrants tied to the federal investigation into Hunter Biden provide new details on the information that investigators had in their possession about President Joe Biden’s son’s business deals linked to Ukraine, China and elsewhere. The multiple search warrant applications were released, with only some redactions remaining, late Tuesday following an …

IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley, whose whistleblower testimony was pivotal to House Republicans’ corruption investigation into Hunter Biden, was named the agency’s next acting commissioner.  Shapley, who has been fiercely critical of the IRS, will lead the agency until former Republican Rep. Billy Long, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency permanently, is confirmed by the …

President Donald Trump is set to name Gary Shapley, the former IRS criminal investigator who alleged that the Justice Department slow-walked the investigation of Hunter Biden, as acting commissioner of the IRS, three people briefed on the matter told CNN. Shapley provided whistleblower testimony to Congress, as Republicans claimed partisan bias by Justice officials had …

CHICAGO (AP) — An IRS whistleblower who testified publicly about investigations into Hunter Biden’s taxes is expected to be promoted to IRS acting commissioner, two sources familiar with the plan tell The Associated Press. Gary Shapley, an IRS employee who testified to Congress as Republicans reviewed the business dealings of Joe Biden’s son, said he was retaliated against for …

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 …

The Justice Department’s effort to sweep up phone and email information from congressional staffers during a 2017 investigation into the leak of classified information to the media likely also identified whistleblowers who were reporting problems within the DOJ to congressional overseers.  And a federal judge involved in a case where a watchdog group is suing to get …

FBI agents who blew the whistle on “wrongdoing” within the bureau — including one agent saying he wants to share further information about working under disgraced FBI official Peter Strzok — are calling upon the bureau, now led by Kash Patel, to review and resolve their claims of retaliation by Biden’s FBI. FBI agents who …

Donald Trump’s storming of Washington isn’t leaving much time for nuance, yet distinctions matter. A case in point is the vindication of Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, a story that answers at least one big question… Think instead of Washington’s 2.4 million workforce as the political version of a terribly run company. It has …