IRS whistleblowers sue Hunter Biden’s attorney for $20M in defamation case: 'Clear malice' - AOL
Two IRS agents who blew the whistle on the political interference into Hunter Biden’s tax crimes filed a $20 million defamation lawsuit against an attorney for the president’s son late Friday, accusing him of behaving with "clear malice."
IRS investigators Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler accuse attorney Abbe Lowell of retaliating against them for their efforts in exposing the kid glove treatment Hunter Biden was receiving in regard to his non-payment of taxes.
The lawsuit, filed in D.C. court, states that the pair are bringing the case to "vindicate their reputations for the incredible and malicious harm they have suffered."
Shapley and Ziegler claim that as whistleblowers, they acted "with honor and integrity in exposing conflicts of interest, preferential treatment, and political motivations that they reasonably believed were interfering with the criminal tax investigation of Hunter Biden."
They claim that they acted in accordance with statute and that Lowell "falsely and maliciously" accused them of committing crimes, "namely, the illegal disclosure of grand jury materials and taxpayer return information — despite the fact that they never publicly discussed return[ing] information that was not already public."
"Lowell’s malicious and false allegations, including accusations that Shapley and Ziegler ‘committed felonies’ and ‘violated the...
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