We blew the whistle on Hunter Biden — now we’re fighting his lies
NY Post
Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and Special Agent Joseph Ziegler are longtime IRS employees who came forward as whistleblowers to accuse the agency of allowing Hunter Biden to skate on serious tax charges. Here, the two explain why they want to be a part of a civil suit the president’s son filed against the IRS — to defend strongly what the government won’t.
Like most whistleblowers, we did not wake up one morning and decide to pick a fight.
We simply tried to do our jobs like always, even in the face of increasing resistance from a system that did not want to treat the president’s son the same as any other taxpayer.
The foundation of our tax system requires that everyone be treated equally.
Telling the truth about that to our leadership at the IRS, to internal agency watchdogs, and eventually to Congress is our sworn duty — not just something we are allowed to do, but something we must do.
In theory, the law encourages agents like us to report misconduct by promising that we will be protected from retaliation for making those disclosures.
