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Hunter Biden’s lawyer lashed out Friday against the IRS whistleblowers who testified to Congress that the president’s son received preferential treatment from the Justice Department during his criminal investigation.
The lawyer was publicly pushing back against claims from two IRS agents that the Justice Department officials slow-walked the criminal probe into Hunter Biden’s tax issues, stymied their efforts to obtain subpoenas and search warrants, and repeatedly blocked prosecutors from filing felony charges.
The IRS whistleblowers are “disgruntled agents who believed they knew better than the federal prosecutors who had all the evidence as they conducted their five-year investigation of Mr. Biden,” Hunter Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell wrote in a letter to Rep. Jason Smith, the GOP chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who released the whistleblowers’ deposition transcripts last week.
Republican lawmakers “choreographed the dissemination of incomplete half-truths, distortions, and totally unnecessary details about Mr. Biden” from IRS agents “with a bias and an axe to grind,” Lowell said, arguing that the move was “an obvious ploy to feed the misinformation campaign to harm our client, Hunter Biden, as a vehicle to attack his father.”
The whistleblowers’ claims of political interference in the criminal probe have been met with adamant denials from the Justice Department. Attorney General Merrick Garland and David Weiss, the Trump-appointed US attorney who...
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