{"id":1921099,"date":"2023-04-29T02:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T06:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-investigates-irs-whistleblowers-troubling-claims-about-agency\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T02:59:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T06:59:17","slug":"congress-investigates-irs-whistleblowers-troubling-claims-about-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-investigates-irs-whistleblowers-troubling-claims-about-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Investigates IRS Whistleblower\u2019s \u2018Troubling Claims\u2019 About Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fcongress-investigates-irs-whistleblowers-troubling-claims-about-agency%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=1921099&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--><h2>IRS Whistleblower Claims Possible Political Interference in Hunter Biden Probe<\/h2>\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0428\/10bb8d2b-5f62-4a92-95b8-7a1450b7c763\/audio.mp3?length=3611565&#038;duration=301\"><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-mounting-opposition-democrats-move-forward-on-stalled-justice-dept-nominee\/\" title=\"Amid Mounting Opposition, Democrats Move Forward on Stalled Justice Dept. Nominee\">investigating claims<\/a> from an alleged Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblower who is voicing concerns about possible political interference in the probe targeting Hunter Biden. The whistleblower, a career IRS criminal supervisory special agent, has been overseeing the ongoing and sensitive investigation of a high-profile, controversial subject since early 2020.<\/p>\n<h3>Protecting the Whistleblower<\/h3>\n<p>Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) has indicated that the panel is conducting a review of the matter and expects full cooperation from the IRS, particularly with regard to ensuring the whistleblower is protected from retaliation. IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel has committed to protecting the whistleblower and fiercely defending the integrity of the whistleblower process.<\/p>\n<h3>Nonpartisan Information<\/h3>\n<p>The whistleblower&#8217;s attorney, Mark Lytle, has addressed members of the House of Representatives and Senate, saying his client wants to offer a nonpartisan group of relevant committees information necessary to exercise their constitutional oversight function. The attorney did not mention Hunter Biden, but Republicans say the anonymous IRS worker is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attorney-says-irs-whistleblower-could-not-live-with-himself-if-he-stayed-quiet\/\" title=\"Attorney Claims that IRS Whistleblower\" May Never Live With Himself If He Stayed Noiseless.\"\">bringing information<\/a> about a potential conflict of interest with the Hunter Biden investigation.<\/p>\n<h3>Probe into Hunter Biden<\/h3>\n<p>The younger Biden confirmed he was under investigation for tax fraud after the conclusion of the 2020 election. Few details have been revealed about the probe since then. Republicans claim that Hunter Biden has been engaged in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-investigates-irs-whistleblowers-troubling-claims-about-agency\/\" title=\"Congress Investigates IRS Whistleblower\u2019s \u2018Troubling Claims\u2019 About Agency\">corrupt overseas business practices<\/a> to enrich his family.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5141210\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/03\/22\/GettyImages-1466423016-1200x843.jpg\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/03\/22\/GettyImages-1466423016-1200x843.jpg\" alt=\"IRS Commissioner nominee Daniel Werfel testifies before the Senate Finance Committee during his nomination hearing in Washington, on Feb. 15, 2023.\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">IRS Commissioner nominee Daniel Werfel testifies before the Senate Finance Committee during his nomination hearing in Washington, on Feb. 15, 2023. (Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday indicated the powerful panel is reviewing claims from an alleged Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblower who is voicing concerns about possible political interference that some lawmakers say relates to the probe targeting Hunter Biden. \u201cLast week, a whistleblower came forward with troubling claims<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1921100,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[6105,4856,4402,6035,8362,10232,14982],"class_list":["post-1921099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-agency","tag-claims","tag-congress","tag-investigates","tag-irs","tag-troubling","tag-whistleblowers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921099","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}