WASHINGTON — IRS whistleblowers who alleged interference by the Justice Department in a criminal probe of former first son Hunter Biden are appealing their case to a federal review board that handles workplace misconduct, according to a legal complaint obtained by The Post.
IRS supervisory special agent Gary Shapley and special agent Joseph Ziegler went before the US Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) on Thursday, demanding that their agency restore career promotions they were unlawfully denied.
Shapley and Ziegler also want consequences for those who they say “marginalized and isolated” them before throwing them off the tax fraud case against former President Joe Biden’s son.
Among those subject to the complaint are Delaware US Attorney David Weiss and members of the DOJ’s Tax Division.
“When Joe Biden became the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee in the spring of 2020, DOJ’s preferential treatment of Hunter Biden began to look like gross mismanagement,” wrote lawyers for the whistleblower protection legal nonprofit Empower Oversight in the MSPB filing.
That mismanagement included contradictory testimony from Attorney General Merrick Garland about Weiss’ authority to make charging decisions for the case, as well as an October 2022 meeting in which Shapley charged that the Delaware prosecutor was mishandling the investigation.
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