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IRS Whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler have resolved their defamation case with Biden family attorney Abbe Lowell.

 

Shapley and Ziegler filed the lawsuit against Lowell, alleging that Lowell republished false statements accusing the whistleblowers of illegally releasing confidential tax information about the Hunter Biden case.

 

The suit alleged that the statements Lowell republished were part of a well-funded campaign launched to smear Shapley and Ziegler in retaliation for their legally protected whistleblower disclosures to Congress.

 

In the joint statement agreed upon by both sides, Abbe Lowell admitted that “the whistleblower provisions of 5 U.S.C. § 2302 and 26 U.S.C. § 6103 authorized Messrs. Shapley and Ziegler to make disclosures of otherwise confidential tax information about the investigation of Hunter Biden to the tax committees in Congress[.]” He also admitted that, “when speaking to the media, Messrs. Shapley and Ziegler believed they acted in good faith to follow the law and to limit their remarks to information that had already been lawfully disclosed by others[.]”
Empower Oversight President Tristan Leavitt said, “This settlement unequivocally establishes the fact that our clients followed the law and that their whistleblower disclosures were legally protected.” Leavitt went on to say,

 

“This case was never about the money for Gary and Joe, but about restoring their professional reputation and ensuring that other whistleblowers can come forward the way they did—without fear.”
For the complete statement, visit https://empowr.us/joint-statement/.