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Hunter Biden Published July 19, 2023 1:59pm EDT

Whistleblower X reveals identity as

IRS special agent Joseph Ziegler
IRS whistleblowers will testify to the House Oversight committee at 1 pm Wednesday

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Hunter Biden was permitted to plead guilty to minor charges.

The identity of the anonymous IRS whistleblower alleging political misconduct throughout
the Hunter Biden investigation has been revealed as special agent Joseph Ziegler — a gay
Democrat with more than a dozen years serving within the agency’s criminal investigative
division.

Ziegler appeared for the first time publicly before the House Oversight Committee on
Wednesday, alongside his IRS supervisor Gary Shapley, who also has blown the whistle on
political influence surrounding prosecutorial decisions throughout the years-long federal
probe into the president's son.

He said he is a 13-year special agent within the IRS’ Criminal Investigation Division and
described himself as a "gay Democrat married to a man."

Ziegler is expected to testify that Hunter Biden "should have been charged with a tax
felony, and not only the tax misdemeanor charge," and that communications and text
messages reviewed by investigators "may be a contradiction to what President Biden was
saying about not being involved in Hunter’s oversea business dealings."

REPUBLICANS’ IRS ‘WHISTLEBLOWER X’ IS A GAY DEMOCRAT IN CRIMINAL DIVISION

WITH 13 YEARS AT THE AGENCY

IRS Criminal Investigator Joseph Ziegler testifies during a House Oversight Committee hearing related to the Justice
Department's investigation of Hunter Biden, on Capitol Hill July 19, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Ziegler has previously been
known as "Whistleblower X." (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

He is expected to explain the "corrosion of ethical standards and the abuse of power that
threaten our nation" that he has witnessed.

Ziegler is also expected to testify on several instances in which prosecutors "did not follow
the ordinary process, slow-walked the investigation, and put in place unnecessary
approvals and roadblocks from effectively and efficiently investigating the case," including
prosecutors blocking questioning and interviewing of Hunter Biden’s adult children.

Ziegler is also expected to ask Congress and the Biden administration to "consider a
special counsel" for the Hunter Biden investigation and "all the related cases and spin-off
investigations that have come forward from this investigation."

He is expected to testify that Congress should consider "establishing an official channel

for Federal investigators to pull the emergency cord and raise the issue of the
appointment of a special counsel for consideration by your senior officials."

FORMER FBI AGENT CONFIRMS KEY DETAILS OF HUNTER BIDEN WHISTLEBLOWER’S

TESTIMONY, GOP SAYS

Gary Shapley, left, supervisory special agent at the Internal Revenue Service, and Joe Ziegler, IRS Whistleblower X, arrive to
testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability during a hearing regarding the criminal investigation
into the Bidens, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on July 19, 2023. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Shapley, who has participated in multiple media interviews since the House Ways & Means
Committee released his transcribed interview last month, is expected to testify that
prosecutors "had decided to conceal some evidence from the investigators" that they
found on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Shapley is also expected to say that the Delaware's U.S. Attorney's Office "slow-walked
steps like conducting interviews, serving document requests, and pursuing physical
search warrants in California, Virginia and Delaware" until after the 2020 presidential
election.

"The warrants were ready as early as April 2020, but the Delaware USAO pushed them off
until after the November 2020 election and then never pursued them," Shapley will say.

"After an electronic search warrant on Hunter Biden’s Apple iCloud account led us to
WhatsApp messages with several CEFC China Energy executives where he claimed to be
sitting and discussing business with his father Joe Biden, we sought permission to follow
up on the information in the messages," Shapley will say. "Prosecutors would not allow it."

HUNTER BIDEN INVESTIGATORS LIMITED QUESTIONS ABOUT 'DAD,' 'BIG GUY' DESPITE
FBI, IRS OBJECTIONS: WHISTLEBLOWER

David Weiss (L), Hunter Biden (C), and Joe Biden (R). (Fox News)

Shapley will again testify that a search warrant for the guest house at the Bidens’
Delaware residence was being planned, but, despite agreeing there was "probable cause,"
Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf "cited the ‘optics’ of executing a search warrant at
President Biden’s residence as the deciding factor for not allowing it to be completed."

"This was the decision even though she admitted there would be evidence at that location
that would further the investigation," Shapley will say. "AUSA Wolf also told investigators
they should not ask about President Biden during witness interviews even when the
business communications of his son clearly referenced him."

Brooke Singman is a Fox News Digital politics reporter. You can reach her at
Brooke.Singman@Fox.com or @BrookeSingman on Twitter.

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