A man serving supervising agent on a 'high-profile' criminal tax probe identified as being about Hunter Biden has come forward seeking whistleblower protections while claiming politics are 'improperly infecting decisions' in the investigation.
A lawyer representing the unidentified whistleblower wrote senators as well as inspectors general for the Justice Departments and the Treasury Department on Wednesday.
People familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal the probe related to the president's son, who just returned from a trip to Ireland where he accompanied the president on a family reunion.
The protected disclosures 'contradict sworn testimony to Congress by a senior political appointee' and 'involve failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the ultimate disposition of the case,' according to attorney Mark Lytle of Nixon Peabody.
They also 'detail preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected, Lytle wrote, in a letter obtained by DailyMail.com.
He said his client is a career IRS Criminal Supervisor Special Agent who has been overseeing the 'sensitive investigation of a...
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