A settlement was agreed to Friday in a $20 million defamation lawsuit brought by IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler against Hunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell.

The lawsuit, filed in September 2024, accused Lowell of acting with “clear malice” and harming the reputations of the IRS employees investigating the former first son when he alleged to the media that they had illegally leaked Hunter’s private tax information.

The case was dismissed by a federal judge in Washington, DC, last month, but the whistleblowers had been considering an appeal.

As part of the settlement, all parties agreed to no longer pursue further litigation and Lowell acknowledged that Shapely and Ziegler were authorized “to make disclosures of otherwise confidential tax information about the i

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