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CNN: Trump to name Hunter Biden whistleblower as acting IRS commissioner, sources say

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

AP: IRS agent who investigated Hunter Biden expected to be named IRS acting chief

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

Paying the Cost for Investigating Tax Cheat Hunter Biden

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

Daily Signal: Watchdog Presses DOJ to Lift Secrecy on Congressional Spying Documents

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

Wall Street Journal, Kim Strassel: The Vindication of the IRS Whistleblowers

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