WASHINGTON — IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley spent about six hours Friday privately testifying to Congress about an alleged coverup in the criminal investigation of first son Hunter Biden.
The Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee granted the panel’s Democratic minority equal time to question Shapley about his claims that prosecutors are slow-walking the five-year-old case.
Tax secrecy laws bar Shapley from publicly airing details about the investigation, but disclosures to Congress are legally protected.
Republicans and Democrats alternated their questions in one-hour blocks and did not immediately publicize key exchanges.
“Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley testified for about six hours today to Democrat and Republican staff of the House Ways and Means Committee,” his legal team told The Post.
“Both sides had equal opportunity to ask whatever questions they wanted, and Special Agent Shapley answered all of their questions.”
Shapley supervised the tax fraud probe of Hunter Biden, 53, since January 2020 and contacted congressional leaders April 19 to offer evidence of “preferential treatment” and alleged false testimony to Congress by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The IRS removed Shapley and 12 subordinates from the case last week in what his legal team alleged was illegal retribution ordered by the Justice Department.
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