Elon Musk’s handpicked IRS chief lasts just 72 hours
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Summary
Gary Shapley, best known for blowing the whistle on Hunter Biden, was forced out as acting commissioner of the IRS after just 72 hours.
Sources said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent “complained” to Donald Trump that Shapley was “installed without his knowledge” and “at the behest of billionaire Elon Musk.”
Bessent claimed Musk and his DOGE acolytes had “done an end run around him.”
The Times does not list any specific actions that led to him getting sacked. Shapley will remain at the IRS as a senior official in its criminal investigation division.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-handpicked-irs-chief-gary-shapley-lasts-just-72-hours/