The way the American legal system is weighted against the little guy is exemplified by the $20 million defamation action brought Friday night by IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler against Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell. For one thing, a lawsuit like this typically will cost upwards of $1 million. For another, Lowell is one of …
Two IRS agents who blew the whistle on the political interference into Hunter Biden’s tax crimes filed a $20 million defamation lawsuit against an attorney for the president’s son late Friday, accusing him of behaving with “clear malice.” IRS investigators Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler accuse attorney Abbe Lowell of retaliating against them for their efforts in exposing the kid glove …
IRS investigators Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler, who blew the whistle on Hunter Biden’s tax crimes, filed a $20 million defamation lawsuit Friday against the First Son’s attorney Abbe Lowell in Washington DC. They accuse Lowell of behaving with “clear malice” when he retaliated against their whistleblowing by making defamatory statements to the media alleging that …
A federal judge last week ruled in favor of a whistleblower advocacy group that sued the Justice Department to unseal documents related to its secretly obtaining communications about congressional staffers who were investigating the DOJ. Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research won a partial victory in a lawsuit it filed in May, when a federal court ordered the …
As President Donald J. Trump hunted for people inside the government who were divulging details of an investigation into whether his 2016 election campaign colluded with Russia, the Justice Department turned to a covert tactic. Beginning in 2017, department officials secretly collected the phone and email records of roughly a dozen people connected to Congress, …
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul pressed the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Wednesday on why the agency is weaponizing watchlists to spy on political dissidents as terrorists. In a letter to TSA Administrator David Pekoske, Paul cited recent whistleblower reports disclosing the transportation agency’s surveillance of former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, and the wife of a federal air …