A 14-year IRS veteran has gone public as a whistleblower who is accusing the Justice Department of showing preferential treatment in a high-profile tax investigation.

What You Need To Know

• A 14-year IRS veteran has gone public as a whistleblower who is accusing the Justice Department of showing preferential treatment in a high-profile tax investigation


• In an interview with “CBS Evening News” that aired Wednesday, Gary Shapley, a supervisory special agent, said tax secrecy laws prevent him from publicly disclosing who the subject of the investigation is, but CBS News and CNN reported the probe centers on Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden


• Shapley alleges there were "multiple steps that were slow-walked at the direction of Department of Justice"


• Shapley is seeking legal protection from Congress as a whistleblower so he can go into detail about his allegations

In an interview with “CBS Evening News” that aired Wednesday, Gary Shapley, a supervisory special agent, said tax secrecy laws prevent him from publicly disclosing who the subject of the investigation is, but CBS News and CNN reported the probe centers on Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden.

Shapley said he was assigned to the investigation in January 2020, which is being led by the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Delaware, David Weiss.

“When I took control of this particular investigation, I immediately saw it was way outside the norm of what what I've experienced in the past,” Shapley told...

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