Irs Agents Who Investigated Hunter Biden Given Promotions At The Treasury Department

Two IRS whistleblowers who testified publicly about investigations into Hunter Biden's taxes have been promoted to new roles as senior advisers at the Treasury Department.

Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler , two IRS employees who testified to Congress as Republicans reviewed the business dealings of Joe Biden's son , say they were retaliated against for cooperating in the investigations.

Shapley and Ziegler say they were removed from the Hunter Biden case in December 2022 after they told their bosses that the Justice Department and former Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss had engaged in a pattern of 'slow-walking investigative steps" and delaying enforcement actions in the months before the 2020 presidential election won by Democrat Joe Biden.

Now, Shapley is being promoted to Deputy Chief of IRS Criminal Investigations and Ziegler is assigned to the secretary's office as a senior adviser for IRS reform.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on Tuesday that he planned to bring the pair into Treasury and "give them a year to investigate the wrongdoing that's going on at the IRS."