Two IRS agents who came forward last year with bombshell allegations of misconduct in the long-running Hunter Biden tax case are now suing Biden’s lead attorney for $20 million for allegedly defaming them with false statements to the media. IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler filed a lawsuit against high-profile defense lawyer Abbe Lowell in Washington, …
An FBI whistleblower is alleging that the bureau improperly suspended security clearance for agents with “conservative views.” Fox News obtained a complaint sent last week to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and DOJ Inspector General from a whistleblower – a supervisor and a registered Democrat – alleging that the “FBI’s Security Division improperly suspended or revoked employees’ …
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Empower Oversight is pressing the Justice Department Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility to investigate retaliation against an FBI unit chief and program manager after she made protected disclosures to her chain of command. Monica Shillingburg, a program manager and unit chief at the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System …
A Department of Veterans Affairs office that investigates whistleblower retaliation cases says VA leadership is acting on more of its recommendations for disciplinary action. Members of the House VA Committee, however, are concerned VA’s Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection (OAWP) doesn’t have independence from the rest of the department to carry out its work, …
WASHINGTON — Empower Oversight President, Tristan Leavitt, and Founder and Chair, Jason Foster, wrote in an op-ed for The Federalist about the need for even more congressional oversight and public scrutiny after U.S. Attorney David Weiss was appointed a special counsel in the Hunter Biden case. “The appointment of Weiss and the controversies that led …
Grassley Thanks Whistleblower Groups Led by Empower Oversight for Supporting Coalition Letter WASHINGTON — Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) announced in a statement submitted to the U.S. Congressional Record that the bipartisan leadership of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) has agreed to changes to improve whistleblower protections in the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA). Grassley …