Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C.– Empower Oversight has filed a complaint against the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General (VA OIG) for its failure to preserve critical investigative exhibits as required by federal law in a contentious conflicts of interest case that languished for nearly four years. This failure has undermined ongoing efforts to ensure accountability …

IRS Whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler released the following statement in response to the Justice Department’s release of the report by Special Counsel David Weiss. “The Weiss report leaves too many important questions unanswered, and the American people deserve answers. DOJ, FBI, and IRS leadership should have done the right thing from the beginning. …

Washington, D.C. – Late last night, IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and Special Agent Joe Ziegler, filed a response opposing a motion to dismiss their defamation lawsuit against Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell, alleging that Lowell’s defamatory statements were made in retaliation for their protected whistleblower disclosures to Congress. The whistleblowers’ action in response …

Memorandum of Law In Opposition to Defendant Abbe Lowell’s Motion to Dismiss Objections to Defendant’s Request for Judicial Notice in Support of Motion to Dismiss Request for Judicial Notice In Support of Their Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Motion to Dismiss

Empower Oversight president Tristan Leavitt made the following comment after the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report entitled “DOJ Obtaining Records of Members of Congress, Congressional Staffers, and Members of the News Media using Compulsory Process.” Empower Oversight’s Chairman and Founder, Jason Foster, was one of the targets of the …

WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight’s Chairman and Founder, Jason Foster, will be featured on Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson during her Dec. 8 show regarding the Justice Department secretly collecting his phone and email records when he led the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Oversight and Investigations unit for then-Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA). The surveillance raises serious questions related to …

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 …

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 …