{"id":1961839,"date":"2023-06-30T18:41:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T22:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-bidens-attorney-attempts-to-discredit-irs-whistleblowers-in-10-page-letter\/"},"modified":"2023-06-30T18:42:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T22:42:32","slug":"hunter-bidens-attorney-attempts-to-discredit-irs-whistleblowers-in-10-page-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-bidens-attorney-attempts-to-discredit-irs-whistleblowers-in-10-page-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden&#8217;s lawyer discredits IRS whistleblowers in a 10-page letter."},"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\">20<\/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%2Fhunter-bidens-attorney-attempts-to-discredit-irs-whistleblowers-in-10-page-letter%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=1961839&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>Hunter Biden&#8217;s Lawyer Pushes Back on Whistleblower Testimony<\/h2>\n<p>Hunter Biden&#8217;s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, has sent a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-gives-speech-at-reagan-library\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley gives speech at Reagan Library\">whistleblower testimony<\/a> from two IRS employees. Lowell claims that releasing the testimony is part of a misinformation campaign to harm his client and attack his father.<\/p>\n<h3>Allegations of Interference in the Investigation<\/h3>\n<p>The two whistleblowers, IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley and an unnamed source, testified that the Department of Justice interfered with the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden. They claimed that the lead U.S. Attorney on the case was blocked from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-county-da-confirms-cuomo-criminal-probe-over-sexual-harassment-allegations\/\" title=\"New York County DA Confirms Cuomo Criminal Probe Over Sexual Harassment Allegations\">bringing charges<\/a> in his preferred jurisdiction, denied special counsel status, and that the DOJ concealed information related to foreign bribery allegations involving Hunter Biden and then Vice-President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland has denied these allegations.<\/p>\n<h3>Discrediting the Whistleblowers<\/h3>\n<p>Lowell dismisses the testimonies as orchestrated mischaracterizations and incomplete facts. He refers to the whistleblowers as disgruntled agents who believe they know better than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-ag-barr-authorizes-federal-prosecutors-to-pursue-substantial-allegations-of-voting-irregularities-before-2020-election-is-certified\/\" title=\"BREAKING: AG Barr Authorizes Federal Prosecutors to Pursue \"Substantial Allegations\" of Voting Irregularities Before 2020 Election is Certified\">federal prosecutors<\/a>. He also suggests that they may be using the whistleblower title to evade their own misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith responded, stating that it is not surprising that Hunter Biden&#8217;s attorneys are attempting to discredit the whistleblowers. He commends the whistleblowers for coming forward with allegations of misconduct and preferential treatment for Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenging the WhatsApp Messages<\/h3>\n<p>Lowell also challenges the WhatsApp messages released by the committee, in which Hunter Biden mentions his father&#8217;s name and claims they were together to Chinese business associates in an attempt to secure money. While Lowell does not dispute the content of the messages, he criticizes the images posted on Twitter, stating that they are complete fakes.<\/p>\n<h3>Violation of Tax Laws and Federal Rules<\/h3>\n<p>Lowell accuses Smith of violating the spirit, if not the letter, of tax laws and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-bidens-attorney-attempts-to-discredit-irs-whistleblowers-in-10-page-letter\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden's lawyer discredits IRS whistleblowers in a 10-page letter.\">federal rules governing investigations<\/a> by releasing the whistleblowers&#8217; testimony.<\/p>\n<p>Smith counters this assertion, stating that the committee followed the appropriate legal steps to share the information with the rest of Congress. He also criticizes Lowell for not addressing key allegations from the whistleblowers.<\/p>\n<p>The letter from Hunter Biden&#8217;s lawyer comes after the House Ways and Means, Judiciary, and Oversight Committees requested interviews with more than 13 employees of the IRS, DOJ, and the Secret Service to further investigate the alleged interference in the criminal case. Hunter Biden plans to plead guilty to two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-lawyer-calls-irs-whistleblower-a-criminal\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Lawyer Calls IRS Whistleblower a Criminal\">misdemeanor tax charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Biden&#8217;s attorney, Abbe Lowell, has written a 10-page letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO), challenging the credibility of whistleblower testimony from two IRS employees. Lowell&#8217;s letter, obtained by the Washington Examiner, aims to counter the release of this testimony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1961840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1961839","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1961840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}