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A whistleblower from the Internal Revenue Service who claims he was blocked in his investigation of President Joe Biden's son is nothing more than a "complainer" with a "political ax to grind," a legal expert said Wednesday.
Speaking to "The CBS Evening News" Tuesday, Gary Shapley – an IRS supervisory agent who helped oversee a five year investigation into allegations of tax fraud against Hunter Biden – claimed he was stopped from issuing subpoenas and blocked from doing further investigations.
He was speaking a week after Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for Delaware, David Weiss announced a plea deal in the Biden case
But a specialist in that area of law, Harry Litman, told MSNBC on Wednesday that he doesn't buy Shapley's claims.
"It's very implausible, for starters," Litman said of the Shapley accusations. "I'm a whistleblower lawyer. This guy is not a whistle-blower. A whistleblower goes within the agency, follows the procedures, and says something wrong has happened. This guy is just a complainer with maybe a political ax to grind or maybe just a professional —"
Host Andrea Mitchell cut him off to explain that the only reason he was called a whistleblower was that the House Oversight Committee called him one.
"All I'm saying is a whistle-blower means someone who reports malfeasance in the agency, goes through all the processes and is rebuffed," said Litman.
"This guy has a political career and he may be a professional one, but he's just one guy. He didn't go through any process. There's no corroboration. It's implausible. That's my brief reaction."
Speaking to "The CBS Evening News" Tuesday, Gary Shapley – an IRS supervisory agent who helped oversee a five year investigation into allegations of tax fraud against Hunter Biden – claimed he was stopped from issuing subpoenas and blocked from doing further investigations.
He was speaking a week after Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for Delaware, David Weiss announced a plea deal in the Biden case
But a specialist in that area of law, Harry Litman, told MSNBC on Wednesday that he doesn't buy Shapley's claims.
"It's very implausible, for starters," Litman said of the Shapley accusations. "I'm a whistleblower lawyer. This guy is not a whistle-blower. A whistleblower goes within the agency, follows the procedures, and says something wrong has happened. This guy is just a complainer with maybe a political ax to grind or maybe just a professional —"
Host Andrea Mitchell cut him off to explain that the only reason he was called a whistleblower was that the House Oversight Committee called him one.
"All I'm saying is a whistle-blower means someone who reports malfeasance in the agency, goes through all the processes and is rebuffed," said Litman.
"This guy has a political career and he may be a professional one, but he's just one guy. He didn't go through any process. There's no corroboration. It's implausible. That's my brief reaction."