A group of Republican House and Senate lawmakers have asked Special Counsel Henry Kerner to discipline IRS and Justice Department officials who may have retaliated against two whistleblowers who told Congress that Hunter Biden received preferential treatment in a tax fraud probe.
In a letter to Mr. Kerner, who is in the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, the lawmakers say the whistleblowers and their investigative team were kicked off the Hunter Biden tax fraud probe and denied career advancement “in apparent retaliation for their legally protected communication with Congress.”
The Justice Department and IRS also failed to inform the whistleblowers about their right to make the bombshell disclosures, lawmakers said.
The letter was signed by House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, Kentucky Republican; House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, Missouri Republican; Senate Budget Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, and Investigations Permanent Subcommittee ranking member Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican.
The four lawmakers have been leading the years-long investigation into the Biden family’s foreign business deals, which center around the actions of President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.
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