IRS Whistleblower ‘Saw Deviations From the Normal Process’ in Hunter Biden Investigation
“There were multiple steps that were slow-walked — were just completely not done — at the direction of the Department of Justice.”
IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley, a 14-year veteran of the agency, told CBS News about the irregularities he saw when he took control of an investigation involving Hunter Biden:
“There were multiple steps that were slow-walked — were just completely not done — at the direction of the Department of Justice,” said Gary Shapley, a 14-year veteran of the agency, who spoke exclusively to CBS News chief investigative correspondent Jim Axelrod on Tuesday. “When I took control of this particular investigation, I immediately saw deviations from the normal process. It was way outside the norm of what I’ve experienced in the past.”
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Shapley told CBS News he became increasingly concerned about measures being taken that he said appeared to shield the target of the investigation — which CBS News independently confirmed is Hunter Biden.
“Each and every time, it seemed to always benefit the subject,” Shapley said. “It just got to that point where that switch was turned on. And I just couldn’t silence my conscience anymore.”
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“For a couple years, we’d been noticing these deviations in the investigative process. And I just couldn’t, you know, fathom that DOJ might be acting unethically on this,” he said.
In April, Mark Lytle, one of Shapley’s attorneys, sent a letter to Congress, asking for his client’s protection. If he received protection then he would spill the beans. His testimony would “contradict sworn testimony ‘by a senior political appointee.'”
Then last week, Shapley’s attorneys gave a letter to the Office of the Special Counsel:
CBS News obtained a letter Shapley’s attorneys sent last week to the Office of the Special Counsel, a federal agency dedicated to assisting government whistleblowers. The letter alleges “irregularities” in the Department of Justice’s handling of the case,and cites a “charged meeting” Shapley’s team had with Justice Department prosecutors last October. According to the letter, following that meeting, Shapley’s team was effectively excluded from the investigation. Shapley would not say if he made prosecutors aware of his concerns but did acknowledge the incident prompted him to blow the whistle.
“It was my red-line meeting,” Shapley said. “It just got to that point where that switch was turned on, and I just couldn’t silence my conscience anymore.”
An investigation into Hunter Biden began three years ago:
The investigation focuses on potential crimes related to outstanding tax debts connected to income earned from a controversial stint as a board member for the Ukrainian energy company Burisma while his father was vice president, and a potential false statement related to a gun purchase. Last year CBS News reported that the past-due taxes were paid off with a loan from high-powered Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris, who provided Hunter Biden with financial backing.
Shapley said officials removed him and his staff from the investigation because of the DOJ. He also accused IRS leadership of retaliating against him.
It would be hard for anyone to accuse Shapley of political ambitions because he claimed: “he hasn’t made any political donations or been involved in political campaigns.” He is a registered Republican but has not taken any money to come forward.
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A botched investigation into a political target that will be used to claim that there is no there there?
How Clintonian!
I knew Shapley was a republican. How so? As whistleblower he knew he was walking away from his job – yet didn’t think to transfer data proving his claims Hunter was engaged in criminal activity. Because “stealing” government data is what “bad” people do. Three thumb drives of data would suffice. But no.
It’s like he didn’t plan his escape.. a prisoner escaping prison wearing a Speedo swimming thong and flipflop sandals.
The high road is the road to unvictory. We bring plastic sporks to gun duels and pride ourselves on the uprightness of the thing. Of course doing so dooms us to losing to the Woke-Bolsheviks (with head held high!) Head held high until it rolls in to a handwoven hemp-reed basket.
Bradley Manning walked away with petabytes of data. And look at him now? Pardoned. New book release. Fresh lipstick on hideous boor. The recent Pentagon data theft concerning Ukraine? Pshaah!
After Lois Lerner who would have thought you couldn’t trust the IRS? sarc
Anyone trust an organization whose only function is to steal from people who work for a living?
But I thought that nobody was above the law.
Absolutely – there is no question of tax fraud with Hunter biden and the rest of the Biden family including the mr Big.
However – the Whistleblower has exposed himself to facing criminal charges by going public with the allegations. There is an absolute prohibition to revealing any “taxpayer information”. The term “taxpayer information ” includes the taxpayers name. So while the whistleblower did not specifically state “Hunter Biden”, the manner in which the allegations were made were sufficient to identify Hunter Biden. Thus he has effectively disclosed confidential taxpayer information.
Lets hope the DOJ doesnt initiate criminal prosecution.
Just to be clear – lets hope DOJ doesnt initiate criminal prosecution against the whistleblower
They will, you can’t go after one of the Communists without getting crushed.
Rely on the Dem’s in the House to bring up that “criminal release of taxpayer information” to discredit the whistleblower.
I’ll care two minutes after they imprison the guy who leaked Trump’s returns.
That was so weird. Not the leak, that was bad and should be pursued. No, the weird part was the left’s years-long insistence that his tax returns be made public, and then when they were, nothing happened. No earth-shattering kaboom, no nothing. Obviously we didn’t care at all, but they didn’t even seem to care. Very odd.
Nope, it went exactly as we told them it would. They whined because they looked at the bottom line and claimed he “didn’t pay his fair share.” We pointed out that he exercised all the LEGAL credits, deductions, and deferments that were authorized by federal law, exactly as any other businessman would do, and if they didn’t like that, they could always change the law, just like they do every damn year. They were left with nothing.
It was one in a series of a dozen “the walls are closing in on Trump” moments that went absolutely nowhere. You have to think hard to remember the others, because… nothing happened, just like this one.
They found out what anyone with sense already knew. Rich people like Trump don’t hire an army of accountants and lawyers to cheat on their taxes. They hire them to make sure the tax forms are done accurately, and every deduction, credit, and loophole that he and others bought from Congress is fully used, so they pay the taxes due and not $1 more.
Not weird at all. Most people including many accountants wouldn’t be able to make heads or tails of a billionaire’s tax returns, especially without access to a lot of other information.
“I immediately saw deviations from the normal process. It was way outside the norm of what I’ve experienced in the past.”
So he wasn’t around for the Hillary thing. Oh, right — IRS, not FBI.
“Each and every time, it seemed to always benefit the [Democrat insider],”
Welcome to America ever since the election of Barack Obama.
The IRS has been political for a lot longer than that – at least since Hillary and her magic cattle futures contracts.
t least since Nixon and likely before.
The IRS refused to let Nixon use them politically. That probably was because they were neutral. Working for the other side came later, after the WWII and earlier generations had retired.
Nah, he committed the ultimate sin. He got caught, it’s not like his predecessors weren’t doing exactly the same thing.
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
This is very disheartening. The whole family is obviously guilty of multi-year tax fraud. The IRS always makes it a criminal case with multiple years of significant unreported income. Sometimes one can squeeze out of it with substantial penalties if it is only overstating expenses, not unreported income. Income includes that from illegal activities. This absolutely will be squashed by whatever means necessary becomes it exposes criminal activity further compounded by criminal tax reporting.
These rats are trying to limit the situation to a minor side tax issue concerning only Hunter so they can bury it. The Biden’s make the Sopranos look like choir boys.
Were any members of the Biden Crime Family residents of red states when income taxes were due on the illegal payments? Are there taxes on income in any of those states? If so,
I think there will likely be at least one state that will bring a tax fraud case. I’m just not sure any of them live in a red state. Biden’s child support case could also expose the evidence. But Biden’s baby mama has a dilemma: she needs to prove Hunter has income without going too far and showing that it’s all criminal proceeds, which she can’t keep even a piece of.