WASHINGTON –Empower Oversight has released new details about several clients caught in the crosshairs of the politicization of the FBI, in particular the Bureau’s Security Division (SecD). In a letter to the FBI’s new General Counsel Samuel Ramer that the whistleblower organization is just now making public, it seeks justice from the new administration for …
WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight has filed a formal request to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to reconsider the revocation of Special Agent Garret O’Boyle’s security clearance—an action they argue was a retaliatory measure against a protected whistleblower. Empower Oversight represents O’Boyle along with the American Center for Law and Justice and Binnall Law Group. …
In a positive turn of events, an Idaho judge recently ordered the unsealing of numerous documents requested by Empower Oversight on behalf of a former FBI Supervisory Senior Resident Agent who was retaliated against for expressing concern about a search warrant written by lawyers in DOJ and the local U.S. Attorney office. The attorneys had purposefully excluded from the search …
WASHINGTON – The IRS special agents who made protected disclosures on the preferential treatment that the Biden administration was giving the president’s son, Hunter Biden, during an investigation into his tax returns, will be promote to leadership positions and become the senior advisors to the Secretary of the Department of Treasury. The announcement was made …
Empower Oversight has appealed the Department of Justice’s ruling denying Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seeking additional information about the agency’s retaliation against various FBI employees. Empower Oversight submitted a FOIA request on Sept. 9, 2024. The Justice Department denied the request on Nov. 26, 2024, asserting …
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit yesterday denied Hunter Biden’s “Motion for Summary Affirmance”—which would have ended IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler’s effort to intervene in Biden’s suit against the IRS. The case falsely accuses the whistleblowers of violating tax secrecy laws. Now the whistleblowers can proceed to …
WASHINGTON, DC – The IRS whistleblowers who reported on the preferential treatment given to former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and the political interference by the president’s political appointees are filing an 84-page complaint with the Merit Systems Protection Board. The complaint filed this morning by their attorneys with Empower Oversight alleges in excruciating …
Empower Oversight provided the following quotes from its clients to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Chairman Chuck Grassley read them into the record of today’s meeting on the nomination of Kash Patel to be the Director of the FBI. The quotes name officials responsible for targeting and purging FBI employees with disfavored views. Many of …
WASHINGTON, DC – Empower Oversight today said that after 20 months of investigating, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has confirmed that the IRS could not support its decision to remove agents from the Hunter Biden tax probe in retaliation for their protected whistleblower disclosures. Career nonpartisan staff at OSC, the agency that investigates …
WASHINGTON, DC – More than a year after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claimed its internal watchdog was “in the final stages of completing” a report on ethical conflicts and the agency’s selective enforcement decisions, Empower Oversight has filed a lawsuit against the agency to obtain the final report. The lawsuit, filed today, seeks …