{"id":1964985,"date":"2023-07-05T19:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T23:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irs-whistleblower-asks-media-outlet-to-clarify-he-was-not-a-source-for-hunter-biden-illegal-leaks\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T19:04:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T23:04:44","slug":"irs-whistleblower-asks-media-outlet-to-clarify-he-was-not-a-source-for-hunter-biden-illegal-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irs-whistleblower-asks-media-outlet-to-clarify-he-was-not-a-source-for-hunter-biden-illegal-leaks\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS whistleblower denies being source of Hunter Biden &#8216;illegal leaks&#8217;, urges media outlet to clarify."},"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\">30<\/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-asks-media-outlet-to-clarify-he-was-not-a-source-for-hunter-biden-illegal-leaks%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=1964985&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 Demands Washington Post Clear His Name<\/h2>\n<p>IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley is demanding that the Washington Post &#8220;publicly affirm&#8221; that he was not a source for &#8220;illegal leaks&#8221; on Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Shapley&#8217;s lawyers sent a letter to the media outlet on Monday asking reporters Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein to clear Shapley&#8217;s &#8220;good name&#8221; by confirming that Shapley was not the source for an October 2022 article over which Biden&#8217;s team accused investigators of leaking information to the media.<\/p>\n<h3>Bidenomics: How the Stock Market Has Fared Under Biden&#8217;s Presidency<\/h3>\n<p>The lawyers for Shapley called Biden&#8217;s team&#8217;s statements &#8220;false and defamatory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Biden family attorneys have falsely accused SSA Shapley of illegally leaking to you,&#8221; the letter read, according to Fox News. &#8220;Shapley was not a source for you on that story, or any other story for that matter.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It would be nice if you would publicly affirm that truth, and avoid becoming, through your silence, an accomplice in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irs-whistleblower-asks-media-outlet-to-clarify-he-was-not-a-source-for-hunter-biden-illegal-leaks\/\" title=\"IRS whistleblower denies being source of Hunter Biden 'illegal leaks', urges media outlet to clarify.\">media spreading false narratives dreamed<\/a> up by Biden family attorneys to intimidate and silence lawful whistleblowers like SSA Shapley,&#8221; the letter added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Washington Post told the Washington Examiner that &#8220;we don&#8217;t comment on our sourcing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shapley testified to the House Ways and Means Committee and claimed that officials at the Justice Department, FBI, and IRS interfered with the investigation by U.S. Attorney David Weiss, whose inquiry focused on Hunter Biden allegedly committing tax evasion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Whatever the motivations, at every stage, decisions were made that had the effect of benefiting the subject of the investigation,&#8221; Shapley said, according to testimony released last week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last week, the younger Biden entered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irs-hunter-biden-whistleblower-details-roadblocks-and-interference-in-investigation-efforts\/\" title=\"IRS whistleblower exposes obstacles and interference in Hunter Biden investigation.\">plea deal related<\/a> to two charges regarding failure to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-brags-americans-can-pay-for-more-expensive-thanksgiving-with-government-handouts\/\" title=\"White House Brags Americans Can Pay for More Expensive Thanksgiving with Government Handouts\">pay federal income tax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here to read more from the Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whistleblowers allege that a Hunter Biden business associate told the FBI that President Joe Biden had stopped by at least one China-related business meeting at Hunter Biden\u2019s apparent request. The information is part of a larger GOP-led House investigation into whether the president knew more about his son&#8217;s business dealings and whether the Biden family took millions of dollars from foreign actors.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden denied lying about speaking with Hunter Biden about business dealings on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Shapley, an IRS whistleblower, has urged the Washington Post to publicly confirm that he was not responsible for any &#8220;illegal leaks&#8221; regarding Hunter Biden. Shapley&#8217;s legal team sent a letter to reporters Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein, requesting them to clear his name by affirming that he was not the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1964986,"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-1964985","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\/1964985","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=1964985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1964986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}