Hunter Biden, son of former US President Joe Biden on Wednesday abruptly dropped his lawsuit against two Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblowers who had accused the Justice Department of covering up parts of a tax fraud investigation into him, effectively ending his claim that they unlawfully disclosed his private tax information.
The 55-year-old, who has faced numerous controversies, voluntarily dropped his lawsuit against IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, the investigators who publicly disclosed details of his tax issues. He gave no specific reason for ending the case.
"It’s always been clear that the lawsuit was an attempt to intimidate us," the two men said in a statement.
"Intimidation and retaliation were never going to work. We truly wanted our day in court to provide the complete story, but it appears Biden was afraid to actually fight this case in a court of law after all," they added, according to the New York Post.
Earlier in 2023, Biden had filed a lawsuit against two whistleblowers, claiming they "had targeted and sought to embarrass Biden via public statements to the media in which they and their representatives disclosed confidential information about a private citizen’s tax matters."
The withdrawal follows approximately one month after Biden's legal representatives - Abbe David Lowell, Christopher Man, David Kolansky and Isabella Oishi - submitted their motion to withdraw from the case.
Shapley and Ziegler had raised concerns through...
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