The IRS agents who blew the whistle on the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office for protecting President Joe Biden’s son are not under investigation, but those who allegedly retaliated against the whistleblowers are. This shocking revelation follows court filings by Delaware U.S. Attorney-cum-Special Prosecutor David Weiss which indicated the whistleblowers’ “conduct” was the subject of a possible investigation.
On Tuesday, the legal team for IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler sent a letter to the Department of Justice’s Inspector General and the Office of Professional Responsibility, requesting they investigate Special Counsel Weiss’s office “for falsely suggest[ing] to the public that some unnamed agency was investigating the conduct of the whistleblowers” when in fact, it was the individuals who allegedly retaliated against the whistleblowers that are the target of the investigation.
Accompanying the referral to the DOJ IG and Office of Professional Responsibility, was a five-page letter that detailed the context of Weiss’s alleged deception. That five-page letter was sent by Shapley and Ziegler’s lawyers to the entity investigating the whistleblowers’ claims of retaliation, namely the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, or “OSC” — a separate office charged with investigating retaliation claims, not to be confused with Weiss’ Office of Special Counsel.
As the letter to the OSC detailed, in a response to a motion filed by Hunter Biden in his pending criminal tax fraud case, Special Counsel Weiss wrote that “IRS agents, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, . . . . have made unsubstantiated claims that prosecutors’ decision-making in this
