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James Comey and Andrew McCabe were audited by the IRS [1]
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Date: 2022-07-06
The infinite improbability drive from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. What are the chances that two former FBI directors who were both Trump antagonists would be the subject of an in depth IRS audit.
The New York Times Michael S. Schmidt has just published a story revealing that both Jim Comey and Andrew McCabe were audited by the IRS — during the time when a Trump appointee was the IRS director. Neither man was aware the other was subject of an audit until they were informed by the NYT. The type of audit they were subjected to is supposed to be random, but that odds of that are impossibly high. www.nytimes.com/…
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The odds of being selected for that audit in any given year are tiny — out of nearly 153 million individual returns filed for 2017, for example, the I.R.S. targeted about 5,000, or roughly one out of 30,600.
The audit of the Comeys began in November 2019. The audit of the McCabes started in October 2021, nine months after Mr. Trump left office. At the time both audits occurred, the I.R.S. was run by Mr. Rettig, whom Mr. Biden has allowed to stay on for a term set to expire in November. During the 2016 election, Mr. Rettig, a Los Angeles-based tax lawyer, said that because Mr. Trump was under audit, he should “absolutely not” release his tax returns.
“When something like that happens, the president’s involvement inevitably casts a shadow over an otherwise routine government function and harms the public’s confidence in the fair administration of taxes,” said Scott D. Michel, a longtime lawyer who specializes in tax disputes.
Trump says he knows nothing about it.
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