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Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler filed a massive defamation lawsuit against Hunter Biden’s attorney on Friday.

Shapley and Ziegler, both IRS agents, alleged to Congress that officials in President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) gave Hunter Biden preferential treatment during an investigation into his taxes and overseas business dealings in testimony delivered in May and June 2023. The two IRS whistleblowers, who also provided other information about Hunter Biden’s business affairs and laptop, are now suing Abbe Lowell — the first son’s attorney — in federal court, seeking a combined $20 million in damages for allegedly defamatory statements that caused “incredible and malicious harm.”

“It is particularly ironic and damaging that a well-known attorney like Lowell — in his words, ‘one of the country’s foremost white collar defense and trial lawyers’ that is ‘widely viewed as counsel of choice for individuals facing government investigations and potential indictments’— has chosen to falsely accuse these special agents of criminal behavior,” reads the complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. “Lowell’s stature and credibility in the legal community have amplified the harm caused by his defamatory statements. Lowell’s malicious and false allegations, including accusations that Shapley and Ziegler ‘committed felonies’ and ‘violated the law,’ were published to third...

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