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Just the News: Whistleblowers say human trafficking hotline operator failed to report tips to law enforcement

The Polaris Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that administers the National Human Trafficking Hotline, regularly fails to refer tips to law enforcement for investigation, whistleblowers told the Senate Judiciary Committee, confirming an earlier complaint from a bipartisan group of state attorneys general. The Polaris Project in 2023 received $4,831,020 in government grants, according to the charity’s IRS filings. 

National Review: Nonprofit Running National Human Trafficking Hotline Fails to Flag Tips to Law Enforcement, Whistleblower Alleges

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

Just the News: Hunter Biden drops lawsuit against IRS whistleblowers, who say suit was ‘attempt to intimidate’

Hunter Biden has agreed to drop his federal lawsuit against IRS whistle-blowers who publicly argued federal investigations against then-President Joe Biden’s son were being mishandled by their agency and by the Justice Department. “Intimidation and retaliation were never going to work,” IRS supervisory special agent Gary Shapley and IRS special agent Joseph Ziegler, who publicly raised concerns

The Federalist: Hunter Biden Drops Bogus Lawsuit Targeting IRS Whistleblowers

After suing IRS whistleblowers, claiming they unlawfully exposed his tax information, Hunter Biden has dropped his case. The former president’s son — known for his infamous laptop, which exposed the Bidens’ shady overseas business deals — sued the IRS in September 2023. The suit specifically focused on Special Agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, alleging they exposed Biden’s

New York Post: Hunter Biden abruptly drops lawsuit against IRS — a move the whistleblowers say shows ‘everything you need to know’

Hunter Biden abruptly dropped his lawsuit Wednesday against two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers who alleged a wide-ranging cover-up in the Department of Justice to stonewall the tax fraud investigation into him. The Biden scion had slapped a lawsuit against the two whistleblowers in 2023, alleging that they “targeted and sought to embarrass Mr. Biden via public statements to the

Tennessee Star: Unredacted Hunter Biden search warrants detail payments linked to Ukraine and China

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

Washington Examiner: Trump names Hunter Biden whistleblower Gary Shapley as next acting IRS chief

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