IRS Whistleblowers Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and Special Agent Joe Ziegler made the following statement after President Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden. “No amount of lies or spin can hide the simple truth that the Justice Department nearly let the President’s son off the hook for multiple felonies. We did our duty, told …
WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight is asking congressional oversight committees for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to hold the agency accountable for potential conflicts of interest at the agency with respect to its regulation of cryptocurrencies, and obtain an inspector general report that was in its “final stages” nearly one year ago. The letter comes …
WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for failing to respond to multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for its communications related to IRS whistleblowers Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Gary Shapley and Special Agent (SA) Joe Ziegler and the protected disclosures they made to Congress. The …
Attorneys for Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley made the following comment after filing an appeal of a recent ruling denying the whistleblowers’ (Shapley and Special Agent Joe Ziegler) request to intervene in Hunter Biden’s lawsuit against the IRS. The lawsuit against the IRS falsely accuses the IRS whistleblowers of violating tax secrecy laws. “SSA Shapley …
WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight is appealing a U.S. District Court decision that kept hidden any factual basis for Justice Department (DOJ) subpoenas for the activity logs of the personal phone and email accounts of members of Congress and attorneys for congressional committees. The attorneys and members of Congress were from both major political parties. “Unfortunately, …
The Securities and Exchange Commission has provided a second partial response to Empower Oversight’s Freedom of Information Act request from May 15, 2023. The request centered around communications about the oversight organization’s referral of evidence to the Inspector General, pointing to ethical violations and related litigation. Empower Oversight sought records of communications about the group’s May 2022 …
WASHINGTON – Earlier this month IRS whistleblowers Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and Special Agent Joe Ziegler filed a defamation lawsuit against Hunter Biden attorney Abbe Lowell, alleging that Lowell republished false statements about them that damaged their reputation and caused them irreparable harm. The suit alleges that the statements Lowell republished, made by Biden …
WASHINGTON – Yesterday Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz independently corroborated key whistleblower disclosures Empower Oversight made to Congress last week. The new revelations came in a statement for the record Horowitz submitted to the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government for its hearing yesterday with Horowitz, FBI whistleblower and Empower Oversight client …
House Judiciary CommitteeSelect Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal GovernmentHearing on the Weaponization of the Federal GovernmentSeptember 25, 2024 Testimony of Tristan LeavittPresidentEmpower Oversight Chairman Jordan, Ranking Member Plaskett, and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the invitation to testify today. Empower Oversight is a nonprofit organization that provides free legal services to …
WASHINGTON – On the eve of a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing that is expected to further expose the major flaws in the laws prohibiting reprisal against FBI whistleblowers, major whistleblower protection organizations and accountability advocates are calling on Congress to pass legislation that finally creates effective protection for whistleblowers. In a letter to the committees …