IRS Whistleblower X will disclose their identity during the Oversight hearing on the Hunter Biden investigation.
An Anonymous IRS Investigator to Testify Before House Oversight Committee
An anonymous IRS criminal investigator will testify before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, revealing his identity for the first time after alleging politicization of the Hunter Biden investigation.
Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said both the unnamed IRS agent, whom he called “Whistleblower X,” and veteran IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley will appear for the public hearing.
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“It takes a brave person to step forward and challenge the status quo. I’m looking forward to Mr. X’s testimony and the sunlight he will provide for the American people,” Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC), a member of Oversight, told the Washington Examiner.
The unnamed agent and Shapley both testified to the House Ways and Means Committee in May that U.S. Attorney David Weiss of Delaware had been blocked from charging President Joe Biden’s son in a criminal tax investigation in two separate jurisdictions, California and Washington, D.C.
They also said Weiss had said in a meeting last year that he “was not the deciding official on whether charges are filed” in the case.
The pair of agents had both worked for years in coordination with the Department of Justice on the case before they and the rest of their team were cut from the investigation in May 2023.
Their release from the inquiry came after they had brought concerns about the investigation to Congress, which their attorneys and congressional Republicans claim amounts to unlawful whistleblower retaliation.
The pair later detailed in formal closed-door testimonies how they had witnessed during the Hunter Biden investigation “conflicts of interest, preferential treatment, deviations from normal investigative procedures, and conflicting information provided by Attorney General Merrick Garland to Congress,” according to an affidavit by Shapley.
Comer does not expect to uncover new information in the hearing, he said, but he plans to present information his committee has uncovered involving the Biden family’s business dealings and “see what the IRS whistleblowers think.”
Comer has said the two agents’ closed-door testimonies to Congress reveal that the DOJ “refused to follow evidence that implicated Joe Biden, tipped off Hunter Biden’s attorneys, allowed the clock to run out with respect to certain charges, and put Hunter Biden on the path to a sweetheart plea deal.”
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The plea deal, which Hunter Biden reached with Weiss in June, included two misdemeanor tax charges and a felony gun charge that is expected to be dropped after a probationary period.
Weiss, for his part, has disputed the IRS agents’ claims about the investigation, saying in a letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) this month that he never sought ”special counsel” status in the case and that he would have been granted a separate special authority to unilaterally bring charges in jurisdictions outside Delaware if he had asked for that authority, but that he never asked for it.
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