Comey and McCabe, Two Trump Foes, Both Faced Intensive I.R.S. Audits

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IRS says for ‘17 it randomly picked 5,000 taxpayers out of 153 million who filed for a highly invasive audit
IRS says for ‘19 it randomly picked 8,000 out of 154 mil for same audit
Among those picked: former FBI dir Jim Comey and his dep. Andy McCabe

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Comey and McCabe, Two Trump Foes, Both Faced Intensive I.R.S. Audits
The former F.B.I. director and his deputy, both of whom former President Donald J. Trump wanted prosecuted, were selected for a rare audit program that the tax agency says is random.
3:15 PM · Jul 6, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/us/politics/comey-mccabe-irs-audits.html

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Among tax lawyers, the most invasive type of random audit carried out by the I.R.S. is known, only partly jokingly, as “an autopsy without the benefit of death.”

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.

One of the few who received a bureaucratic letter with the news that his 2017 return would be under intensive scrutiny was James B. Comey, who had been fired as F.B.I. director that year by President Donald J. Trump. Furious over what he saw as Mr. Comey’s lack of loyalty and his pursuit of the Russia investigation, Mr. Trump had continued to rail against him even after his dismissal, accusing him of treason, calling for his prosecution and publicly complaining about the money Mr. Comey received for a book after his dismissal.

Mr. Comey was informed of the audit in 2019. Two years later, the I.R.S., still under the leadership of a Trump appointee after President Biden took office, picked about 8,000 returns for the same type of audit Mr. Comey had undergone from the 154 million individual returns filed in 2019, or about one in 19,250.

Among those who were chosen to have their 2019 returns scrutinized was the man who had been Mr. Comey’s deputy at the bureau: Andrew G. McCabe, who served several months as acting F.B.I. director after Mr. Comey’s firing.

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[comradebillyboy]

1. I just can't gin up a shred of sympathy for that asshole

Comey. I'm only sorry Trump didn't make him suffer more.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

2. revenge politics nothing more. TFG is as petty as you think he is

feel bad for McCabe not really on Comey

[BlueCheeseAgain]

3. I can't feel any sympathy for Comey.

If he had to undergo an audit, and we can use that against T****, it sounds kind of like a win-win to me.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Straight out of the Nixon playbook

This amused me. Comey got a refund

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