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Hunter Biden initiated legal action against the IRS on Monday, alleging that IRS whistleblowers improperly revealed information to congressional investigators regarding the Justice Department's tax inquiry into his financial matters.

Hunter Biden's legal team asserts that when IRS agents informed Congress and news outlets about the Justice Department's purported mishandling of the tax investigation into the President's son, the IRS whistleblowers purportedly disclosed these incriminating allegations in an inappropriate manner.

Among these allegations, the whistleblowers claimed that Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf prevented investigators from inquiring about President Joe Biden's reference as "the big guy," the DOJ twice hindered United States Attorney David Weiss from pursuing more substantial charges against Hunter Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland declined to appoint a special counsel for the tax investigation, and the IRS proposed charges against Hunter Biden that were not approved by Garland.

"This infringement on Mr. Biden's rights included the public dissemination of his confidential tax information during over 20 nationally televised interviews and numerous public statements, none of which were authorized by Congress," the lawsuit contends against the government of his father.

The disclosures encompassed "detailed allegations about the specific tax years under investigation, the amounts of deductions, the nature of those deductions, and allegations of liability regarding specific tax years and amounts, which could only be known through an examination of the actual tax returns," the lawsuit argues.

In June, the House Ways and Means Committee voted to disclose numerous instances of alleged political interference in which the DOJ impeded the IRS tax investigation into Hunter Biden. Subsequently, in July, IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel affirmed the rights of agency whistleblowers to make protected disclosures to Congress.

Hunter Biden's legal action against the IRS coincides with reports that his lawyers pressed the DOJ to prosecute the whistleblowers after the committee sanctioned the public release of IRS whistleblower claims.

As reported by The New York Times, the DOJ intended to spare Hunter Biden from charges until two whistleblowers came forward:

"Now, the I.R.S. agents and their Republican allies say they believe the evidence they brought forward, at the precise time they did, played a role in influencing the outcome, a claim senior law enforcement officials dispute. While Mr. Biden’s legal team agrees that the I.R.S. agents affected the deal, his lawyers have contended to the Justice Department that by disclosing details about the investigation to Congress, they broke the law and should be prosecuted."

Earlier this year, The Times revealed that Mr. Weiss seemed willing to forgo any prosecution of Mr. Biden at all, and his office came close to agreeing to end the investigation without requiring a guilty plea on any charges. But the correspondence reveals that his position, relayed through his staff, changed in the spring, around the time a pair of I.R.S. officials on the case accused the Justice Department of hamstringing the investigation. Mr. Weiss suddenly demanded that Mr. Biden plead guilty to committing tax offenses.

As the testimony from the I.R.S. agents took hold, Mr. Biden’s legal team felt the ground shift beneath them. The U.S. attorney’s office suddenly went quiet.

Last week, Weiss indicted Hunter Biden on three gun-related charges. No tax or FARA violations were filed, though Weiss "may soon file a new indictment against Hunter Biden in another federal court — potentially in California — over alleged tax crimes that the agents say they found in reviewing his finances from 2014 to 2019," the Washington Post reported on Monday.

Zelensky Fires Six Deputy Defence Ministers Amid Mounting Corruption...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Six Ukrainian deputy defense ministers were relieved of their duties on Monday, following the dismissal of Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov two weeks ago amid a corruption scandal, officials said, as heavy fighting persisted in the east.

Deputy defense ministers, including Hanna Maliar, Vitalii Deyneha, and Denys Sharapov, as well as the state secretary of the Ministry of Defense, Kostiantyn Vashchenko, were discharged, as reported on the Telegram account of Taras Melnychuk, permanent representative of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Melnychuk offered no explanation for the dismissals, but the government has been investigating allegations of corruption in the military's procurement of equipment. Rustem Umerov, a Crimean Tatar lawmaker who assumed the role of defense minister, did not issue an immediate statement…...