An IRS whistleblower’s attorney warned the Washington Post that it would face being complicit in Hunter Biden’s crimes if it remained silent on key issues.
Hunter Biden’s attorneys accused IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley of illegally leaking insider information to the paper used in its October 2022 story titled, “Federal agents see chargeable tax, gun-purchase case against Hunter Biden,” Just The News reported.
Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell claimed Shapley provided “illegal leaks” of government information and said they “may be claiming that title [of whistleblower] in an attempt to evade their own misconduct” as part of “an obvious ploy to feed the misinformation campaign to harm our client, Hunter Biden, as a vehicle to attack his father.”
However, IRS whistleblower Shapley says he never contacted the Washington Post and demanded the paper speak up and confirm he wasn’t their source for the Hunter Biden leak.
Shapley’s attorney, Empower Oversight President Tristan Leavitt, called for the Post to come clean and tell the truth.
“Other than saying, ‘We don’t comment on sources,’ they haven’t said anything so far,” Leavitt told Just the News.
Leavitt also warned the paper about besmirching the whistleblowers.
“And if they don’t do anything, they’re simply being accessories to the Hunter Biden legal defense,” he insisted.
Leavitt has also sent a formal letter to the paper, saying, “Biden family attorneys have falsely accused SSA Shapley of illegally leaking to you,” the letter read. “Shapley was not a source for you on that story or any other story for that matter.”
“It would be nice if you would publicly affirm that truth and avoid becoming, through your silence, an accomplice in the media spreading false narratives dreamed up by Biden family attorneys to intimidate and silence lawful whistleblowers like SSA Shapley,” the letter added, according to Fox News.
The Washington Post’s silence makes them look like partisan liars.
The biased paper appears to have no interest in proving Shapley is not a liar and did not provide any “illegal leaks.”
In May, Shapley testified to Congress that the Department of Justice conspired to shield Hunter Biden from a criminal probe.
The whistleblower said he believed his duty was to draw attention to the probe because prosecutors were mishandling “a high profile, controversial” case.
Last month, Shapley also told CBS News he was prevented from investigating Hunter Biden’s money trails, leading to “the big guy.”
“There were multiple steps that were slow-walked — were just completely not done — at the direction of the Department of Justice,” Shapley told CBS News.
“When I took control of this particular investigation, I immediately saw deviations from the normal process.
“It was way outside the norm of what I’ve experienced in the past.”
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*C*O*R*R*U*P*T*I*O*N = BIDEN CRIME SYNDICATE.
Wow. I would do a snoopy dance to see a fake news outlet hauled into court for lying. Kudos to this attorney. Give WAPO a chaffing they won’t soon forget.