The allegation appeared in a May 18 letter the agent sent to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, and it was made public Monday evening as part of a whistleblower package his supervisor sent Congress and the Office of Special Counsel, the government's official whistleblower protection agency.
The whistleblower further alleged that his entire team had been sidelined after he made protected disclosures.
The whistleblower approached IRS internal watchdog late last year with the help of attorney Mark Zaid, who previously represented whistleblowers whose disclosures led to the first impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.
A May 20 letter from the whistleblower's current counsel to Werfel references the May 18 letter sent by one of the supervisory agent's subordinates.
Former DOJ lawyer Mark Lytle and former congressional investigator Tristan Leavitt, who now serves as president of Empower Oversight, currently represent the unidentified whistleblower.
File OSC letter IRS The latest revelations generated an immediate rebuke of the IRS from Republican Sen, Charles Grassley of Iowa, a longtime champion of whistleblowers.
"IRS commissioner Werfel: what r u doing to protect IRS whistleblowers??" Grassley tweeted Monday evening.
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