Two IRS whistleblowers have filed a $20 million defamation lawsuit against Hunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, in federal court. The move followed their disclosures about the Hunter Biden tax investigation.

Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, both IRS agents who revealed information about the Hunter Biden tax probe, filed a lawsuit alleging that Lowell acted “with clear malice” and made defamatory statements to the media. The two allege Lowell suggested the agents illegally leaked Hunter Biden’s private tax information.

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The pair’s lawsuit said both whistleblowers suffered harms to their reputations and professions.

Shapley and Ziegler’s initial concerns, raised to the House Ways and Means Committee, questioned if President Joe Biden’s son was receiving potential preferential treatment in the Justice Department’s investigation.

These revelations led to the collapse of a controversial plea agreement between Hunter Biden and Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss last summer.

Recently, Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to all felony tax crimes brought against him.

Shapley and Ziegler maintain that their actions were driven by a commitment to expose what they believed to be conflicts of interest and preferential treatment from the Department of Justice in the Hunter Biden tax investigation.

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