{"id":1936311,"date":"2023-05-23T13:47:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T17:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/second-hunter-biden-whistleblower-threatened-for-internal-email-warning-of-irs-corruption\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T13:51:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T17:51:05","slug":"second-hunter-biden-whistleblower-threatened-for-internal-email-warning-of-irs-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/second-hunter-biden-whistleblower-threatened-for-internal-email-warning-of-irs-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Hunter Biden whistleblower faces threats after exposing IRS corruption in an internal email."},"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\">28<\/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%2Fsecond-hunter-biden-whistleblower-threatened-for-internal-email-warning-of-irs-corruption%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=1936311&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 Alleges Intimidation in Hunter Biden Probe<\/h2>\n<p>Last week, an IRS whistleblower alleged that the Justice Department interfered with the Hunter Biden criminal probe and was subsequently removed, along with his entire team, from participating in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-anyone-more-annoying-or-treacherous-than-barack-obama\/\" title=\"Is Anyone More Annoying or Treacherous than Barack Obama?\">ongoing investigation<\/a>. This removal has raised questions about whether the Justice Department is engaged in political retaliation against the whistleblowers, in violation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-whistleblower-threatened-for-internal-email-warning-of-irs-corruption\/\" title=\"Whistleblower who warned of IRS corruption threatened over Hunter Biden email.\">whistleblower protection laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the IRS whistleblower\u2019s attorney and the whistleblower advocacy group Empower Oversight have sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel providing further evidence of intimidation against the whistleblower\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>In response to making his good faith expression of reasonable concerns\u2014concerns shared by our client\u2014the case agent had a right to expect that his email would be taken seriously, considered, and addressed professionally without retribution, as the law requires.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the IRS responded with accusations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-happening-pennsylvania-state-legislature-files-resolution-disputes-statewide-2020-election-results\/\" title=\"It's Happening: Pennsylvania State Legislature Files Resolution -- DISPUTES STATEWIDE 2020 ELECTION RESULTS\">criminal conduct<\/a> and warnings to other agents in an apparent attempt to intimidate into silence anyone who might raise similar concerns.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The letter goes on to notify Werfel that, as IRS commissioner, he is responsible for making sure that whistleblowers are not retaliated against. In addition to being legally required to stop employees from threatening or otherwise attempting to silence whistleblowers from speaking to members of Congress about corruption, the letter specifically notes that the law is clear that agencies may not require that whistleblowers \u201cseek[] approval from [their] direct report\u201d before speaking out.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the whistleblower\u2019s email to IRS leadership, he received a terse reply from an Assistant Special Agent in the IRS Criminal Investigation division stating \u201cYou have been told several times that you need to follow your chain of command\u201d and that \u201cyour email yesterday may have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/second-hunter-biden-whistleblower-threatened-for-internal-email-warning-of-irs-corruption\/\" title=\"Another Hunter Biden whistleblower faces threats after exposing IRS corruption in an internal email.\">included potential grand jury<\/a> (aka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>removal of an IRS whistleblower and his team from the Hunter Biden criminal probe has sparked concerns of political retaliation against whistleblowers by the Justice Department. The whistleblower had accused the department of interfering with the investigation. 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