After the IRS agents promoted by Trump Administration

Finance Minister Scott Bessent promoted two agents with the Internal Revenue Service, who was offering Speaking out of on CBS messages about political interference in their investigation of Tax crime from Hunter biden.

The IRS special agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler were assigned Bessen's office as senior consultants for the IRS reform, and Shapley was appointed deputy director of criminal investigations with the agency.

The promotions are in strong contrast to President Trump's decision on Monday Revoke secret service for Hunter BidenDespite one of his father, former President Joe Biden, signed Executive Ordinance that extends this protection until July.

Shapley and Ziegler first reported in 2023 because they claimed the Ministry of Justice “Slowly straight” The years of tax examination in Hunter Biden and the public prosecutor asked them not to pursue any investigations in connection with his father.

The duo's disclosures had a number of court decisions that ultimately pretended to forgive his son for the crimes in connection with the investigations by the agents. Hunter Biden owed this crime guilty after a judge in Delaware had rejected a plea deal that would have given him a broad immunity.

“We were motivated by a unique mantra: do what is right,” said Shapley in an explanation. “It has never been easy and there have been more pitfalls than one would hope, but we appreciate the Opportunity Secretary better to use our skills and our knowledge of the agency first -hand to promote the work of the administration in order to eradicate the Federal Government's waste and fraud.”

In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, Bessent said that he gives Shapley and Ziegler “a year to examine the misconduct that takes place at the IRS.”

The new tasks come as the IRS is Plans to carry out plans In order to reduce his workforce to layoffs, wear and tear and buyouts to reduce the federal government until the efforts of the Trump administration. And the prominent postings are an abrupt departure from the difficult relationship that the two IRS Whistleblower had previously had with the tax authority.

In December, the Federal Watchdog, who examined the complaints of Whistleblower complaints, justified claims by Shapley and Ziegler, who claimed that the IRS had warded themselves against them when the agency was managed by the two agents at the request of Hunter Biden from the case of Hunter Biden.

The claim for retaliation was part of the efforts of Shapley and Ziegler to defend themselves against what they were for a far -reaching exertion of the lawyers of Hunter Biden to discredit them. In September the Two men sued Abbe Lowell – one of Hunter Bidens lawyers – because of defamation. Lowell replied by exhausting the allegations and describing Shapley and Ziegler as “annoyed”.

In relation Submitted against a former Trump White House Aide He accused of publishing private photos, emails and other materials from his now notorious laptop illegally.

In court documents, Hunter cited bidges for the detachment of the lawsuit. He said that his “income had decreased significantly” because the turnover of his art had dried out last year and he was forced from the house that he rented due to the fires that Los Angeles devastated in January.