An IRS whistleblower who accused US authorities of offering preferential treatment to Hunter Biden in a recent tax probe has denied leaking stories to the media.
An attorney for Gary Shapley hit out at the First Son's legal team for 'falsely' claiming that he was the source of an October 2022 Washington Post story.
That story said that the federal investigators had 'sufficient evidence' to charge Biden with tax and gun crimes.
The 14-year veteran of the U.S. tax agency has claimed that his investigation into the 53-year-old's fiscal affairs was deliberately derailed by DOJ officials.
Shapley has argued that almost three years later they still haven’t received all the data on Hunter's infamous laptop – which could incriminate not only Hunter but his father too.
IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley (pictured) told CBS News that Hunter Biden did receive special treatment – and said he was prevented from taking the routine steps during the investigation into the president's son
Shapley told CBS that he was warned off from probing further into Hunter Biden's lucrative business deals abroad or investigating possible involvement by the president himself.
It prompted his legal team to release a statement accusing Shapley of regularly planting stories in the media and call for a DOJ investigation.
Mark D. Lytle, one of his lawyers, wrote to the two reporters behind the Post story, Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein, urging them to clear the former tax official's name.
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