The attorneys for an Internal Revenue Service whistleblower wrote a letter to Congress claiming that their client has been removed from an investigation on Hunter Biden.
The investigation surrounding President Joe Biden’s son focuses on crimes related to taxes and his false statement in connection to a gun purchase.
“Today the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Supervisory Special Agent we represent was informed that he and his entire investigative team are being removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile, controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress,” the attorneys wrote in a letter to Congress, obtained by Fox News.
The Department of Justice informed the whistleblower of the change on Monday, the attorneys — Tristan Leavitt, president of Empower Oversight, and Mark Lytle of Nixon Peabody — wrote.
According to CBS News, Lytle met with the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees earlier this month to discuss what the whistleblower can tell members of Congress.
Lytle previously said in a letter that his client claimed the investigation has been slowed down by “preferential treatment and politics.”
The attorneys claimed that this move was “clearly retaliatory and may also constitute obstruction of a congressional inquiry” in the latest letter.
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