An attorney for Hunter Biden on Friday transmitted a sharp and sweeping letter to a powerful Republican lawmaker condemning his handling of an IRS whistleblower who has accused Justice Department officials of undermining the DOJ's investigation into President Joe Biden's son.
Abbe Lowell, an attorney for Hunter Biden, accused Rep. Jason Smith, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, of leveraging comments made by an IRS supervisory agent as "an obvious ploy to feed the misinformation campaign to harm our client, Hunter Biden, as a vehicle to attack his father."
Smith last week released transcripts of the committee's interviews with two IRS whistleblowers who in April accused the Justice Department of granting Hunter Biden "preferential treatment" during the DOJ's yearslong probe of his tax affairs.
The move came just days after the younger Biden agreed to plead guilty to a pair of tax-related misdemeanors and enter into a pretrial diversion agreement that would enable him to avoid prosecution on one felony gun charge, potentially ending the DOJ's investigation.
Lowell, in his letter to Smith, accused the IRS agent, Gary Shapley, of being "disgruntled" and of seeking whistleblower status "in an attempt to evade their own misconduct" -- implying that Shapley was the source of leaks to the press about the Justice Department's investigation into Hunter Biden.
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