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Hunter Biden sues the IRS, alleging agents illegally released his tax information

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Hunter Biden sued the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, alleging its agents illegally released his tax information and that the agency failed to protect his private records.

President Joe Biden’s son alleges the IRS unlawfully disclosed his tax return information and did not establish safeguards to ensure the confidentiality of his records. He is seeking, among other things, all documents involving the disclosure of the tax information, $1,000 for each unauthorized disclosure and attorneys fees.


This one has the potential to create some odd allegiances and strange bedfellows situations. We know some folks on the right don't like Hunter, but they also don't like the IRS.
 
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“Taxpayer privacy laws are written by Congress, and it gave itself authority in those laws to hear disclosures about taxpayer information,” Shapley’s attorney said in a statement on Friday.

I wonder if Congress extended some kind of immunity to their 'whistleblowers', because I feel certain the IRS didn't do so, or authorize them to speak publicly about an ongoing matter involving a private citizen's confidential information.
 
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ThatRobGuy said:

CNN —
Hunter Biden sued the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, alleging its agents illegally released his tax information and that the agency failed to protect his private records.

President Joe Biden’s son alleges the IRS unlawfully disclosed his tax return information and did not establish safeguards to ensure the confidentiality of his records. He is seeking, among other things, all documents involving the disclosure of the tax information, $1,000 for each unauthorized disclosure and attorneys fees.


This one has the potential to create some odd allegiances and strange bedfellows situations. We know some folks on the right don't like Hunter, but they also don't like the IRS.
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Don't underestimate the power to cut one's nose off in spite of their face.
 
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essentialsaltes said:
“Taxpayer privacy laws are written by Congress, and it gave itself authority in those laws to hear disclosures about taxpayer information,” Shapley’s attorney said in a statement on Friday.

I wonder if Congress extended some kind of immunity to their 'whistleblowers', because I feel certain the IRS didn't do so, or authorize them to speak publicly about an ongoing matter involving a private citizen's confidential information.
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I believe one of the House committees has the right to see any tax return for the purpose of evaluating implementation and modifications to the tax law. That committee eventually (after a long court battle) got Donald Trump's tax returns (after he left office).

It is notable that Hunter Biden is not suing the chair of a House committee for releasing his tax return.
He is not suing the IRS for providing information to Congress.
He is suing an IRS employee for leaking his tax information to multiple reporters and talking about it on TV.
 
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Just an additional notation. Hunter's lawyers are also suing some guy named Garret Ziegler for illegally accessing Hunter's encrypted IPhone cloud account from a password obtained from one of the hard-drives Issac Mac, the computer store owner, was handing out to GOP operatives like Oprah's "you win car, and you win car". Hunter's lawyers in the lawsuit accuse Mr. Ziegler of the following:

28....It appears that data that Defendants have uploaded to their website from Plaintiff’s encrypted “iPhone backup,” like data that Defendants have uploaded from their copy of the hard drive of the “Biden laptop,” has been manipulated, tampered with, altered and/or damaged by Defendants. The precise nature and extent of Defendants’ manipulation, tampering, alteration, damage and copying of Plaintiff’s data, either from their copy of the hard drive of the claimed “Biden laptop” or from Plaintiff’s encrypted “iPhone backup” (or from some other source), is unknown to Plaintiff due to Defendants’ continuing refusal to return the data to Plaintiff so that it can be analyzed or inspected....​
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Who is Mr Garret Ziegler? An ex staffer of Peter Navaro for the Trump administration.
 
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Say it aint so said:
Just an additional notation. Hunter's lawyers are also suing some guy named Garret Ziegler for illegally accessing Hunter's encrypted IPhone cloud account from a password obtained from one of the hard-drives Issac Mac, the computer store owner, was handing out to GOP operatives like Oprah's "you win car, and you win car". Hunter's lawyers in the lawsuit accuse Mr. Ziegler of the following:

28....It appears that data that Defendants have uploaded to their website from Plaintiff’s encrypted “iPhone backup,” like data that Defendants have uploaded from their copy of the hard drive of the “Biden laptop,” has been manipulated, tampered with, altered and/or damaged by Defendants. The precise nature and extent of Defendants’ manipulation, tampering, alteration, damage and copying of Plaintiff’s data, either from their copy of the hard drive of the claimed “Biden laptop” or from Plaintiff’s encrypted “iPhone backup” (or from some other source), is unknown to Plaintiff due to Defendants’ continuing refusal to return the data to Plaintiff so that it can be analyzed or inspected....​
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One of the causes of action in that suit is the federal crime of illegal entry into a computer account ("hacking") for the iCloud intrusion.

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Who is Mr Garret Ziegler? An ex staffer of Peter Navaro for the Trump administration.
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Mr. Ziegler walks on the wild side of Trumplandia. He was the WH aide who let in several people to the WH (that were on the "do not admit" list) on Dec 18, 2020 for the infamous meeting with Rudy, the Kraken Lady, General Insurrection, Pillow Guy, and sleeps-with-russian-spies in the Oval with the President where all kinds of nutty insurrectionist plans were discussed.
 
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Hans Blaster said:
It is notable that Hunter Biden is not suing the chair of a House committee for releasing his tax return.
He is not suing the IRS for providing information to Congress.
He is suing an IRS employee for leaking his tax information to multiple reporters and talking about it on TV.
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A minor correction on the last item. Hunter Biden is suing the IRS itself, but because one of its employees was leaking his tax and tax investigation information to reporters and on TV.
 
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Say it aint so said:
Just an additional notation. Hunter's lawyers are also suing some guy named Garret Ziegler for illegally accessing Hunter's encrypted IPhone cloud account from a password obtained from one of the hard-drives Issac Mac, the computer store owner, was handing out to GOP operatives like Oprah's "you win car, and you win car". Hunter's lawyers in the lawsuit accuse Mr. Ziegler of the following:

28....It appears that data that Defendants have uploaded to their website from Plaintiff’s encrypted “iPhone backup,” like data that Defendants have uploaded from their copy of the hard drive of the “Biden laptop,” has been manipulated, tampered with, altered and/or damaged by Defendants. The precise nature and extent of Defendants’ manipulation, tampering, alteration, damage and copying of Plaintiff’s data, either from their copy of the hard drive of the claimed “Biden laptop” or from Plaintiff’s encrypted “iPhone backup” (or from some other source), is unknown to Plaintiff due to Defendants’ continuing refusal to return the data to Plaintiff so that it can be analyzed or inspected....​
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Who is Mr Garret Ziegler? An ex staffer of Peter Navaro for the Trump administration.
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I'm starting to see similarities to the actions that lost Fox 3/4 of a billion dollars.
 
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