On Thursday, U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz (FL-01) sent a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson urging him to direct the House Office of General Counsel to intervene in Robert Hunter Biden v.Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to protect the IRS whistleblowers who have bravely come forward with details of Hunter Biden’s tax fraud.
Hunter Biden sued the IRS after details of his alleged tax fraud came to light. His intended targets in his lawsuit are the brave IRS whistleblowers who came forward to expose the Biden family’s potential criminal operations. By allowing the House Office of General Counsel to intervene in the lawsuit, Speaker Johnson can protect the prerogatives of the House of Representatives and protect the rights of all Americans to make protected disclosures to Congress.
Full text of Congressman Gaetz’s letter to Speaker Johnson can be found HERE. Additionally, exclusive coverage of the letter by Daily Caller can be found HERE.
LETTER TEXT
Speaker Johnson:
Pending in federal district court for the District of Columbia is No. 1:23-cv-0271, before Judge Kelly, is the civil action Robert Hunter Biden v. Internal Revenue Service. Due to federal law, this is the only available action of Hunter Biden and the Democrats to silence the I.R.S. whistleblowers who have so bravely come forward with details of Hunter Biden’s tax fraud. The interests of the House of Representatives and the legal rights of our whistleblowers are not being zealously defended by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), who is defending the lawsuit on behalf of the I.R.S.
We should be doing everything we can to protect these brave whistleblowers. As a result, pursuant to House Rule 8(c) and 2 U.S.C. § 5571, I respectfully request that you task the House Office of General Counsel with moving to intervene in Biden v. IRS to protect the prerogatives of the House of Representatives and to protect the rights of all Americans to make protected disclosures to Congress.
Attached, please find the complaint by Hunter Biden, as well as the partial motion to dismiss of the DOJ. A cursory read of these materials should make clear to the House Office of General Counsel that the rights of the House are implicated in this case and not being adequately represented to the Court by the DOJ. To give but example among many: the complaint takes an extremely narrow read of Internal Revenue Code § 6103’s whistleblower provisions, a read which DOJ does not contest. The House clearly has an interest in the broadest possible read of the subject matter that an individual may properly disclose to committees of Congress.
Sincerely,
Matt Gaetz
