Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Promotes the Hunter Biden IRS Whistleblowers to Leadership Roles at the Treasury Department.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has promoted the Hunter Biden IRS whistleblowers to leadership roles at the Treasury Department.

Praising the men’s “bravery, courage, expertise and integrity,” Grassley said their elevation “will send a clear signal that pointing out wrongdoing is an honorable thing to do.”

Shapley and Ziegler were “isolated, frozen out of career advancement and scrutinized relentlessly,” said Foster. “Work life became hell.”

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JUST IN: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has promoted the Hunter Biden IRS whistleblowers to leadership roles at the Treasury Department.

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IRS whistleblowers who investigated Hunter Biden — and were ostracized — are promoted at Treasury Department

By Miranda Devine, NY post, March 18, 2025:

IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler, who squashed Hunter Biden’s sweetheart deal on his tax crimes — and then were kicked off the case and ostracized — have been promoted to leadership positions at the Treasury Department.

It is sweet vindication for the veteran investigators who have endured two years of retaliation since they blew the whistle on political interference in their criminal investigation of the former first son.

Shapley and Ziegler will start work this week as senior advisers to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, guiding reform of the tax agency for 12 months, after which they will transition to senior IRS leadership roles to execute the plans.
IRS Criminal Investigator Joseph Ziegler (2nd R) and Internal Revenue Service Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley (2nd L) who both worked on the federal investigation into Hunter Biden, deliver remarks after testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee December 5, 2023 in Washington, DC. 3
IRS Criminal Investigator Joseph Ziegler (2nd from right) and IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley (2nd from left), who both worked on the federal investigation into Hunter Biden, deliver remarks after testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee on Dec. 5, 2023, in Washington, DC. Getty Images
‘Promote the truth’

“This is a win for every whistleblower out there,” said Ziegler, lead investigator on the troubled five-year Hunter Biden case in Delaware. “Gary and I will continue to do everything in our power to promote the truth, promote whistleblowers and to weed out the bad actors who have affected democracy.”
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Shapley, his former supervisory agent, said: “We will be in a great position to assist the administration in effecting its goals. The winners will be the American people.”

Said Bessent: “I am pleased to welcome Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler to the Treasury Department, where they will help us drive much-needed cultural reform within the IRS.

“These veteran civil servants join us to help further the agency’s focus on collections, modernization, and customer service, so we can deliver a more effective and efficient IRS experience for hardworking American taxpayers. I appreciate [Iowa] Senator [Chuck] Grassley’s efforts in Congress to support whistleblower protections in order to improve transparency, accountability and root out the culture of retaliation.”

Praising the men’s “bravery, courage, expertise and integrity,” Grassley said their elevation “will send a clear signal that pointing out wrongdoing is an honorable thing to do.”

Shapley and Ziegler were removed from the Hunter Biden case in December 2022 after they informed their IRS bosses that the Department of Justice and then-Delaware US Attorney David Weiss were obstructing their investigation and slow-walking the case, blocking search warrants (including of a cottage on then-President Joe Biden’s Delaware estate where Hunter had been living), tipping off Hunter’s lawyers of impending searches, and letting the statute of limitations lapse on the most serious charges.

The men have named six IRS executives who they say retaliated against them and should be disciplined in an official complaint to the Merit Systems Protection Board, which is pending.
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