Weeks after a federal judge allowed Hunter Biden’s tax return information leak lawsuit against the IRS to move forward and denied an attempt by special agents turned whistleblowers to intervene, the agents have launched an appeal.
On Friday, IRS supervisory special agent Gary Shapley and IRS special agent Joseph Ziegler filed a notice of appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in a bid to overturn Barack Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras’ ruling that the two “do not have a legally protected interest in the outcome of this litigation” and are not, as they maintained, “the real subject” of Biden’s case.
Well before Hunter Biden was convicted of federal gun felonies and later opted not to take his tax crimes case to trial, Shapley and Ziegler publicly testified before Congress in the summer of 2023, alleging that “unethical slow-walking and preferential treatment” and “deviations from the normal investigative process” made it impossible to bring felony tax evasion and “fraud or false statements” charges connected to Biden’s business dealings with the Ukrainian gas company Burisma while his father, President Joe Biden, was the vice president of the United States.
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