{"id":1917016,"date":"2023-04-20T04:56:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T08:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irs-whistleblower-alleges-hunter-biden-probe-misconduct\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T09:11:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T13:11:56","slug":"irs-whistleblower-alleges-hunter-biden-probe-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irs-whistleblower-alleges-hunter-biden-probe-misconduct\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Whistleblower Alleges Hunter Biden Probe Misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firs-whistleblower-alleges-hunter-biden-probe-misconduct%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1917016&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/internal-revenue-service-irs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internal Revenue Service<\/a> (IRS) agent claims the federal government\u2019s criminal investigation into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hunter-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hunter Biden<\/a> is being corrupted by lies and politics.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations appeared Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-04\/Letter%20to%20Congress.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a letter<\/a> that the agent\u2019s lawyer, Mark Lytle, sent to leaders of both parties in Congress. Though the letter only says the agent is overseeing the \u201congoing and sensitive investigation of a high-profile, controversial subject,\u201d sources <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/irs-whistleblower-says-u-s-is-mishandling-hunter-biden-probe-7cd127f2?st=8bfedqlosk4410f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed to The Wall Street Journal<\/a> the investigation into Hunter Biden is the focus of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The letter identifies the client as an \u201cIRS criminal supervisory special agent\u201d who has already made \u201clegally protected disclosures internally at the IRS, through counsel to the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, and to the Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General.\u201d Now this IRS agent wants to make protected whistleblower disclosures to Congress despite \u201cserious risks of retaliation,\u201d the letter says.<\/p>\n<p>Disclosures made to the government watchdogs \u201ccontradict sworn testimony to Congress by a senior political appointee,\u201d \u201cinvolve failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the ultimate disposition of the case,\u201d and \u201cdetail examples of preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected,\u201d according to the letter.<\/p>\n<p>The letter adds: \u201cSome of the protected disclosures contain information that is restricted by statute from unauthorized disclosure to protect taxpayer and tax return information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, the adult son of President Joe Biden, is being led by Delaware\u2019s U.S. Attorney David Weiss. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/06\/politics\/hunter-biden-investigation-federal-prosecutors-weighing-charges\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI and IRS<\/a> investigators have been looking into his foreign business dealings, tax affairs, and more. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2022\/10\/06\/hunter-biden-tax-gun-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post reported<\/a> in October that federal agents believed they had sufficient evidence to charge the younger Biden with tax crimes and a false statement related to a gun purchase, but a decision to file charges would be left up to Weiss.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden, who revealed the existence of that years-long inquiry only after the 2020 election, has said he expects to be cleared of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke briefly about the inquiry during congressional testimony early last month. \u201cI pledged not to interfere with that investigation and I have carried through on my pledge,\u201d Garland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/grassley-tells-garland-of-12-sources-with-potential-dirt-on-hunter-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testified under oath<\/a> to the Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Republicans in Congress are conducting their own investigations into the Biden family, raising concerns about corruption extending beyond Hunter, while Democrats have generally dismissed their efforts as politically motivated. On the House side, the Oversight Committee has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/republicans-raise-alarm-about-biden-family-after-treasury-visit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gained access to suspicious activity reports (SARs)<\/a>, which financial institutions can use to flag possible criminal behavior, for members of the Biden family and their associates\u2019 business transactions.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBS_Herridge\/status\/1648810061211353090\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported by CBS News<\/a> in response to the IRS whistleblower letter, House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said the Biden administration \u201cmay be obstructing justice by blocking efforts to charge Hunter Biden for tax violations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent claims the federal government\u2019s criminal investigation into Hunter Biden is being corrupted by lies and politics. The allegations appeared Wednesday in a letter that the agent\u2019s lawyer, Mark Lytle, sent to leaders of both parties in Congress. Though the letter only says the agent is overseeing the \u201congoing and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1917017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"IRS Whistleblower Alleges Hunter Biden Probe Misconduct","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6872,3620,3822,8362,4835,4083,14057],"class_list":["post-1917016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-alleges","tag-biden","tag-hunter","tag-irs","tag-misconduct","tag-probe","tag-whistleblower"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"IRS Whistleblower Alleges Hunter Biden Probe Misconduct","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}