Elon Musk’s handpicked IRS chief lasts just 72 hours
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.
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He was there just long enough to acquire the information needed at that level.
I just made that up, but you have to wonder what’s really going on with these fucks.
Remember the last acting agent before this guy (sp four days ago) was Melanie Krause.
She stepped down rather than allow Americans private IRS filing data to be given to ICE. Scott bessett and Kristi noem signed that agreement without her knowing. She found out because it was on Fox News that the data had been given over. Again not clear that it was at all legal to do so.
Three days with this mini-mooch interim guy had at least one goal: (1) make the IRS remove Harvard’s statuses. He did that on day 1 of 3.
But possibly (2) could be just long enough to have approved other stuff that the serious acting admins wouldn’t do. Such as: additional data exfiltration by doge, more layoffs, or other sweeping decisions for political purposes…
A big part of it is that most of the people they put in charge of departments have no idea how those jobs are actually done. They have little to no background in the field, and think it can be done just like some cushy private CEO position where you basically "network" all day and just demand impossible things now and then.
Although there is a very good chance you're correct and that he just gathered up data that was handed over to
the gestapoICE.How many scaramuccis is this?
3 days = 0.273 Scaramuccis or 0.068 Trusses
The republican adminstration really is at the forefront of these new units of measure.
27 centimooches or 68 millitrusses.
I think the centimoochi is my new favourite measure.
1 cmooch (pronounced 'smooch')=0.11 days/2.64hrs/9504s
Damn, you know you fucked up when we have to start breaking up mooches and trusses into smaller units.
Anything but metric.
The lettuce is so much longer lived.
I know that both are standard units of time, but I'm still sad to see Scaramucci lumped in with Truss like this.
What was he blowing the whistle on hunter biden exactly, a non governmental and not political person?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Shapley
But if Musk installed him then he's probably a corrupt piece of shit
Seems like a pretty personal and intimate act.
Must have ended bitterly.
I see what you did there. Naughty, naughty.
I wish I was Rich Enough to INSTALL A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL WHO OVERSEES MY TAXES!