The Internal Revenue Service asked a judge Tuesday to dismiss parts of a lawsuit Hunter Biden filed against the agency over allegations that IRS agents unlawfully disclosed his private tax information.
President Joe Biden's son had sued the IRS in September 2023 over two claims.
The IRS asked that a judge drop a portion of one of Hunter Biden's accusations and the entirety of his other accusation.
Lytle, one of the two unnamed attorneys referenced in Hunter Biden's lawsuit against the IRS, wrote that a high-profile government investigation was plagued by "Preferential treatment and politics." Lytle did not name Hunter Biden, but several media outlets reported at the time that they had learned the letter was about the Department of Justice's yearslong investigation into the first son's tax affairs.
The IRS noted in its filing on Tuesday that Hunter Biden publicly revealed he was under federal investigation long before Shapley and Ziegler ever approached Congress.
While IRS officials said the attorneys should be excluded from Hunter Biden's lawsuit, the agency did not address the first son's claims against Shapley and Ziegler, who have been characterized widely as whistleblowers after they initially made their disclosures about the DOJ's Hunter Biden case to Congress.
Empower Oversight, a group that provides legal representation for whistleblowers, has called Hunter Biden's lawsuit a "Frivolous smear." In addition to Lytle, Empower Oversight President Tristan Leavitt is the other attorney referenced in the lawsuit.
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