Empower Oversight, a small group of mostly GOP lawyers including former aides to Sen. Chuck Grassley, is part of a constellation of groups facilitating GOP investigations in Congress. Former Republican aides guide whistleblowers through Congress:
From left, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, of the Internal Revenue Service, testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, on Capitol Hill in Washington, on July 19, 2023.
It was not the first time that Empower Oversight had played a key role in facilitating some of the many Republican investigations into Biden’s family, his administration, and federal law enforcement.
Getting Shapley and Ziegler before Congress was a tricky task because unauthorized disclosure of tax information is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. Members of the Empower Oversight team asked lawmakers from both parties to deputize two of Shapley’s lawyers to act as agents of the legislative branch, allowing them to review Hunter Biden’s private tax information.
The testimony prompted hours of unflattering media coverage of Hunter Biden, including a grilling of the White House press secretary about Joe Biden’s ties to the situation. “Here is what I think is the most interesting piece of this whole puzzle,” she said at a recent Judiciary Committee hearing, noting that Empower Oversight is run by former Republican staffers. “Does anyone need any further proof that these allegations are ginned up, corrupt political stunts advanced by those who don’t want to see us follow the law?”
Empower Oversight was started in 2021 by Jason Foster, a former aide to Grassley known for his aggressive tactics investigating the Justice Department. Foster was the subject of a ProPublica article that detailed posts he made in the mid-2000s on an anonymous blog under the name “Extremist.” ProPublica reported that they included posts “expressing worry about a Muslim takeover and whether Joe McCarthy got a bum rap.
Much of the group’s appeal to whistleblowers stems from the men’s experience working for Grassley, who during his 42 years in the Senate, became a magnet for them. While Grassley and his staff were known to investigate both Republican and Democratic administrations — he targeted the Reagan defense budget in the 1980s and helped expose the FBI’s crime lab scandal in the 1990s — in recent years Grassley has become intensely focused on Hunter Biden’s international business dealings.
And a former FBI agent turned critic of the department, Kyle Seraphin, has cut checks for more than $255,000 to two of the witnesses with the subject line “Hold the Line.”
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