Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen Biden walk on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Shapley and Zielger had testified before the House Oversight Committee earlier that year, saying they faced various limitations when tasked with investigating former President Joe Biden's son.
"It’s always been clear that the lawsuit was an attempt to intimidate us," Shapley and Zielger said in a statement after Hunter Biden dropped the case, according to the New York Post. "Intimidation and retaliation were never going to work. We truly wanted our day in court to provide the complete story, but it appears Mr. Biden was afraid to actually fight this case in a court of law after all."
"His voluntary dismissal of the case tells you everything you need to know about who was right and who was wrong," they added.
Lawyers for the two whistle-blowers first emphasized how Hunter Biden "dismissed his case with prejudice – meaning he can never bring it again," and did so "in exchange for nothing at all."
IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley prepares to testify during the House Ways and Means Committee "Hearing with the IRS Whistleblowers: Hunter Biden Investigation Obstruction in Their Own Words" on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Hunter Biden later pleaded guilty in September 2024 to all nine federal tax charges brought against him by special counsel David Weiss. It was determined that Biden failed to pay $1.4 million in taxes from 2016 to 2019. He later paid that back.
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In December, former President Joe Biden granted his son a sweeping pardon, granting Hunter clemency from all crimes he "has committed or may have committed" over the past decade.
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