An IRS agent claims to have details to share with Congress regarding the probe into President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and is requesting whistleblower protections, multiple news outlets reported Friday.
The unnamed agent’s attorney, Mark Lytle, told CBS News that his client “wants to come forward to Congress.”
“He’s ready to be questioned about what he knows and what he experienced under the proper legal protections,” the attorney said.
law enforcement agents have looked into Hunter Biden’s finances since 2018, according to seeking information on whether he committed tax crimes and made a false statement regarding a gun purchase.
The president’s son has yet to be charged, despite some investigators saying they have enough information to do so.
In a letter to a select group of members of Congress, Lytle wrote: “Despite serious risks of retaliation, my client is offering to provide you with information necessary to exercise your constitutional oversight function and wishes to make the disclosures in a non-partisan manner to the leadership of the relevant committees on both sides of the political aisle.”
Lytle said that his client’s testimony would “(1) contradict sworn testimony to Congress by a senior political appointee, (2) involve failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the ultimate disposition of the case” and “(3) detail examples of preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
Lytle said that his client has been part of the IRS for more than a decade and requested special protections for him.
He sent the letter to Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), as well as Reps. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), Richard Neal (D-Mass.), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.). Each is a member, ranking member, chair or co-chair of a congressional committee, ABC News reported.
