The drama and legal saga adjacent to Hunter Biden’s conduct isn’t over yet.
Lawyers for the two IRS whistleblowers in his tax evasion case contend it would be bad news for future whistleblowers if their defamation case against the prominent lawyer for President Joe Biden’s son is dismissed.
In what was likely a reference to the elder Biden’s recent pardon of his son, their 58-page response Wednesday to a motion to dismiss their $20 million defamation case says: “Plaintiffs seek no pardon because they committed no crimes. They merely seek to restore their reputations after Lowell so blithely tarnished them.”
Biden pardoned his 54-year-old son in a surprise move Dec. 1 after he had been convicted, but not yet sentenced, on gun charges in Delaware and tax charges in California.
In mid-November, Abbe Lowell, the younger Biden’s lawyer, filed a…
