Headline Roundup • May 25th, 2023
IRS Whistleblower Claims DOJ Slow-Walked Hunter Biden Tax Probe
Summary from the AllSides News Team
An IRS whistleblower said the Department of Justice "slow-walked" a tax evasion probe into Hunter Biden, and cited differences between prosecutors and investigators.
Key Details: Gary Shapley, a 14-year veteran of the IRS, said during a "CBS Evening News" interview that the Justice Department gave special treatment to the Hunter Biden investigation. On May 15, Shapley was removed from the probe, as was the entire IRS team investigating the matter. Shapley is scheduled to testify before the House Ways and Means Committee in a closed-door meeting Friday.
Key Quote: "There were multiple steps that were slow-walked — were just completely not done — at the direction of the Department of Justice," said Shapley.
For Context: In April, Shapley's lawyers sent a letter to Congress notifying members that the then-unnamed whistleblower wanted to come forward and testify in connection with this three-year investigation.
How the Media Covered it: Right-rated sources highlighted Shapley's CBS interview more prominently than left- and center-rated sources did. Many reports noted that no charges have been brought against Hunter Biden regarding his alleged tax evasion.
Featured Coverage of this Story
New York Post (News)
An Internal Revenue Service whistleblower who alleged prosecutors mishandled an ongoing tax evasion probe into Hunter Biden spoke publicly for the first time and said he felt he had no choice but to go public with the accusations that the probe was stymied.
The 14-year-veteran of the IRS, Gary Shapley, claimed the Justice Department gave special treatment to the investigation in ways he had never witnessed before during an interview with “CBS Evening News” Tuesday.
“There were multiple steps that were slow-walked — were just completely not done — at...
TOM BRENNER/REUTERS
In a charged meeting last year, federal prosecutors were informed of investigators’ “longstanding concerns” about what they described as irregularities in the handling of the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, a lawyer for an IRS supervisory agent said in a letter.
The letter to the Office of Special Counsel, an independent investigative body that handles federal government personnel matters, refers to a meeting in October 2022 and comes days before the supervisory agent is set to give closed-door testimony on Capitol Hill.
The account offers a...
A whistleblower from inside the Internal Revenue Service has spoken publicly for the first time about a highly sensitive political probe he has supervised, which CBS News has determined is the ongoing probe into the finances of President Biden's son Hunter Biden.
He said he became so concerned about prosecutors' handling of "a high profile, controversial" investigation that he felt duty-bound to sound alarms.
"There were multiple steps that were slow-walked — were just completely not done — at the direction of the Department of Justice," said Gary Shapley, a...
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