The GOP-controlled House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday accused one of Hunter Biden’s attorneys of misrepresenting herself to the court in an attempt to block the release of evidence that could threaten the execution of the president’s son’s plea deal, set for Wednesday.

On Tuesday morning, the committee filed an amicus brief to Delaware U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, who will review Hunter Biden’s plea agreement. The brief alleged that the deal was “tainted,” noting the testimony of two IRS whistleblowers who sat for transcribed interviews. Hunter Biden had benefited from “political interference which calls into question the propriety of the investigation” into alleged offenses including money laundering, felony tax evasion, and failure to register as a foreign agent, wrote Theodore Kittila, an attorney who filed the brief on behalf of House Ways and Means chairman Jason Smith.

“The situation here is not that the Justice Department exercised charging or plea negotiation discretion, but the presence of credible allegations that the investigation, charging decisions and plea negotiations were tainted by improper conduct at various levels of the government,” read the brief, obtained by the New York Post.

Hunter Biden's lawyers attempted to prevent Smith from filing the brief, arguing that he had no standing and that it inappropriately revealed confidential taxpayer information, the New York Times reported. Judge Noreika agreed to seal the filing.

But then, about 1:30 p.m., Kittila reported that the filing had been removed from the court’s docket.

“We promptly contacted the Clerk's office, and we were advised that someone contacted the Court representing that they worked with my office and that they were asking the Court to remove this from the docket,” Kittila said. “We immediately advised that this was inaccurate. The Clerk's Office responded that we would need to re-file. We have done so now.”

In the new filing, Kittila added email correspondence with court official Samantha Grimes and Hunter Biden’s lawyers.

"Hi Ted, Following up on our recent telephone conversation, the woman who called was a Jessica Bengels," one message from Grimes read. "She said she worked with Theodore Kittila and it was important the document was removed immediately or they could file a motion to seal. I do deeply apologize for all the confusion on our part."

Bengels is employed at New York-based law firm Latham & Watkins. Hunter Biden attorney Chris Clark was formerly a partner at that firm.

When Kittila confronted Hunter’s legal team, they doubled down on the defense that the filing had confidential tax information embedded and denied that they had misrepresented themselves as working with Kittila. Time stamps from the emails showed that Hunter Biden’s lawyers asked the court to take the filing down after Kittila denied a request to file under seal the whistleblowers’ testimony, which had been public for over a month.

"As far as I am aware, the managing attorney from Latham called the clerk's office to note that personal tax information of the defendant had been filed in a non reacted [sic] manner and to inquire regarding having the information sealed, as we told you we would and as you said you understood," Clark wrote to Kittila. "As far as I am aware the clerk took the filing down on their own accord. Your attempts to publicly file my client's personal financial information with no protection ls [sic] are improper, illegal and in violation of applicable rules. . . . We will seek all appropriate sanctions in response to your actions."

"You should probably take a step back from your statements," Kittila replied to Hunter Biden’s lawyer. "The clerk's office advised that it was represented to her that the request was being made by my firm. We will be advising Judge Noreika of this improper conduct."

"I stand by all of my statements and I hope you have an affidavit from the clerk in support of yours," Clark said in response.

Judge Noreika gave Biden’s lawyers until 9 p.m. to "show cause as to why sanctions should not be considered for misrepresentations to the Court."

Shortle thereafter, Bengels submitted an affidavit blaming the miscommunication on the court clerks.

"I am completely confident that I never indicated that I was calling from Mr. Kittila's firm or that I worked with him in any way," she said. "The only mention of his name was when [the clerk] had asked me if the filings had been entered by Mr. Kittila's firm and I answered that I believed that to be the case."

"We have no idea how the misunderstanding occurred, but our understanding is there was no misrepresentation,” Hunter’s legal team said in a letter to the judge.

"We hope this letter and the attached declaration dispels any suggestion that undersigned counsel or our staff would ever intentionally misrepresent or mislead the Court with respect to any matter," they added.

In June, IRS whistleblowers told Congress in closed-door testimony that the DOJ, FBI, and IRS interfered with and orchestrated a cover-up of the Hunter Biden tax probe. They testified that they pushed for felony charges against Hunter Biden in the tax probe and that Delaware U.S. attorney David Weiss wanted to bring charges against him in D.C. and Southern California last year but was denied by DOJ officials both times.

The DOJ announced in June that Biden agreed to plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors related to his failure to pay his taxes in 2017 and 2018. He entered a diversion agreement that allowed him to avoid jail time for lying on a federal form when buying a handgun in 2018 at the time that he was a drug user.