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 …
WASHINGTON – In a letter today to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Empower Oversight disclosed explosive new information about politicization and whistleblower retaliation by various senior Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials, including Jeffrey Veltri. Veltri is now the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the FBI’s Miami Field Office supervising the investigation into …
WASHINGTON — Empower Oversight represents many whistleblowers who get viciously attacked and defamed in retaliation for courageously reporting misconduct, including IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and Special Agent Joseph Ziegler who legally blew the whistle on kid-glove treatment of the President’s son, Hunter Biden, in a tax investigation. Following the agents’ protected disclosures, Biden …
WASHINGTON – In two new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Empower Oversight is seeking additional information about the FBI’s retaliation against various FBI employees. Some of the information may demonstrate that a high-ranking FBI official provided more false or misleading information to Congress than previously known. The …
WASHINGTON – A federal judge has granted Empower Oversight’s motion to intervene in a case where the Department of Justice (DOJ) subpoenaed the activity logs of the personal phone and email accounts of members of Congress and a dozen or more attorneys of both political parties for congressional committees. In an opinion, the Chief Judge …
“Today Hunter Biden pled guilty to nine criminal tax charges, including three felonies, but on May 15, 2023, one of David Weiss’s prosecutors offered Hunter Biden a deferred prosecution agreement that didn’t require even a single guilty plea. That was the same day the IRS retaliated against SSA Gary Shapley by removing his entire team …