An attorney for first son Hunter Biden attacked House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) in a mistake-filled letter Friday, claiming the panel was coordinating with IRS whistleblowers on a “misinformation campaign to harm” his client.
Abbe Lowell, a high-profile Washington, DC, defense attorney who joined Hunter’s legal team late last year, accused Smith, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) of basing House investigations into the first son on “unsworn and slanted statements” by IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley and another anonymous investigator.
Lowell suggested the IRS workers made their disclosures to Congress “in an attempt to evade their own misconduct,” saying both they and Smith had violated federal laws in making public statements about the probe.
The lawyer pointed out that the whistleblowers had not been warned about incriminating themselves and were not sworn in before their closed-door deposition, though that practice is commonly reserved for public hearings.
Lowell also baselessly suggested that Shapley was the source of an Oct. 6, 2022, Washington Post article that revealed prosecutors had “sufficient evidence to charge” Hunter Biden.
“Biden family lawyers have resorted to intimidation before—reportedly threatening federal prosecutors with ‘career suicide’ if they charged Hunter Biden—so this attempt to intimidate our client and the oversight authorities scrutinizing the...
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