The Treasury Department has promoted two IRS denouncators who accused the Ministry of Justice under President Joe Biden of having granted his son, Hunter Biden, a special treatment during a year -round investigation into his tax affairs.
Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, two veterans of the IRS, will serve as main advisers to the new secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, who said on Tuesday that he was “happy to welcome Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler to the Treasury Department, where they will help us to drive the cultural reform that needed the IRS.”
Shapley and Ziegler manifested themselves in 2023 with allegations according to which the Biden administration inappropriate to inappropriate an investigation into the unpaid taxes of Hunter Biden led by the lawyer of the time for Delaware David Weiss – affirms that the Ministry of Justice and FBI officials fiercely disputed at the time.
“It appeared to me, on the basis of what I experienced, that the American lawyer for Delaware in our investigation was constantly paralyzed, limited and marginalized by MJ officials,” said Ziegler during the testimony of the Congress in July 2023.
A few days after Shapley and Ziegler testified on Capitol Hill, a plea agreement negotiated by Hunter Biden and the Ministry of Justice collapsed by questioning a federal judge. The agreement would have enabled Hunter Biden to plead guilty to a pair of tax -related crimes and to conclude a misappropriation before the trial on a firearm crime.
Hunter Biden was seen at the White House on September 30, 2024.
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Weiss, the prosecutor named Trump, who conducted the investigation into Hunter Biden, repeatedly refuted the complaints accumulated by Shapley and Ziegler and said that he had not done any political pressure from the Biden administration officials to grant the Biden hunter all special treatment.
Hunter Biden then pleaded guilty to nine tax accusations, including several crimes. His father gave him a radical forgiveness in the decreasing weeks of his presidency.
Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, presented his role in securing the promotions of Shapley and Ziegler in a statement on Tuesday. Grassley said he had written several letters to be encouraged to promote the two denunciators, and that “today’s announcement is the result of Grassley’s direct demand”.
“Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler have put all their careers at stake to defend the truth, and instead of being thanked, the Biden administration treated them like skuffs during a picnic,” Grassley wrote in a press release. “I hope that today is the first of many redemption stories for the reproductors who have been mistreated.”
Shapley will serve as an assistant leader of the Criminal Investigations of the IRS and Ziegler will be assigned to the secretary’s office as a principal advisor to the IRS reform.
