May 23, 2023 3:10pm EDT
Senate Democrat cuts out GOP senator from whistleblower crying foul in Hunter Biden probe
Sen Chuck Grassley rep says 'no legitimate reason to exclude' him from participating in investigation
By Brianna Herlihy | Fox News
A top Senate Republican is being cut out from a congressional investigation into IRS whistleblower claims that a Justice Department and IRS probe of Hunter Biden's alleged tax fraud is being mishandled.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who is a member of the Senate Finance Committee and co-chairman of the Whistleblower Protection Caucus, is being denied access to the investigation by committee chairman Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat.
Specifically, Grassley and his investigative team are being denied access to an interview scheduled to take place in the coming weeks with one of the whistleblowers who alleges that the whistleblower's entire team had been removed last week from the Hunter Biden probe as retaliation for coming forward with claims the probe was being mishandled.
A spokesperson for Grassley said the IRS whistleblower’s attorneys "have specifically included Sen. Grassley in their communications with Congress, so there’s no legitimate reason to exclude Grassley’s staff from participating in this investigation."
"Sen. Grassley and his investigations unit are subject-matter experts on both whistleblower protections and the Biden family business controversies. They also happen to be very familiar with the specific statutes protecting sensitive tax information," Taylor Foy, communications director for Grassley, told Fox News Digital.
An IRS criminal supervisory agent first came forward to seek whistleblower protection in an April 19 letter to Congress, claiming that the investigation into Hunter Biden is being mishandled by the Biden administration.
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