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A South Florida federal judge has dismissed ex-FBI Director James Comey and other FBI figures from former President Donald Trump’s ongoing RICO lawsuit aiming to hold a list of political and federal defendants liable for allegedly causing damage to his 2016 election campaign. U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks of...

A federal judge has removed fired FBI director James Comey, fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, fired FBI agent Peter Strzok, resigned FBI lawyer Lisa Page, and former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith as personal defendants in Donald Trump’s RICO lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and other individuals and institutions. Trump...

Lawmakers said Rettig emphasized to them that there was no politics involved. What happened: Democratic tax writers sounded skeptical Thursday as they emerged from a meeting with IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig on how two prominent critics of former President Donald Trump ended up being audited by the agency. Lawmakers said...

Upon their Thursday exit from a meeting with IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig, Democratic tax writers expressed skepticism on the agency’s decision to audit two prominent critics of former President Donald Trump. Legislators claim that Rettig highlighted to them that there was no political involvement and that it was likely...

Last week we learned about a couple of highly invasive tax audits authorized by the Internal Revenue Service for ex-FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, both of whom were frequent targets of ex-President Donald Trump. The report raises serious questions about whether Trump, or someone at...

Ardent critics of former President Donald Trump question why they were selected for rigorous audits.

The IRS is launching a watchdog investigation into two of former President Trump’s well-known foes James Comey and Andrew McCabe after they found themselves under a rare IRS audit. NBC News’ Maura Barrett reports on how questions are being raised about whether the audits were politically motivated. July 8, 2022.

Former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe were subjected to rare and rigorous IRS audits of their 2017 and 2019 returns, respectively, according to letters from the IRS both men provided to The New York Times. Comey was informed of the audit in 2019, while...

A day after a New York Times investigation revealed former FBI director James Comey and ex-deputy director Andrew McCabe both were selected for audits, the Internal Revenue Service revealed that it has asked a watchdog to investigate why the men vilified by Donald Trump came under such scrutiny. According to...

The IRS commissioner has asked the Treasury Department's inspector general to immediately review the circumstances surrounding intensive tax audits that targeted ex-FBI Director James Comey and ex-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, both frequent targets of President Donald Trump's anger. IRS spokesperson Jodie Reynolds said Thursday that IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig had...

The head of the IRS has asked the Treasury Department's inspector general to review how former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe were both subjected to a rare and rigorous IRS audit. The audits of the pair — both of whom were the subject of...

The commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service has asked an internal watchdog to probe the inclusion of former FBI Director James Comey and his former deputy Andrew McCabe in a highly intrusive, supposedly random audit. The review was announced Thursday by the agency, which said in a statement that it had “referred the matter to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration for review,” and that Commissioner Charles Rettig had “personally” reached out to the inspector general following “a press inquiry.” The decision came one day after a bombshell report from The New York Times detailed how Comey and McCabe, two of former President Donald Trump’s avowed enemies for whose prosecutions he repeatedly pushed, were chosen for the rare audit. Comey was one of only 5,000 Americans chosen for the audit in 2017, while McCabe was one of 8,000 selected two years later. The Times reported Thursday that both men “had questions” about the audits, while Trump denied any prior knowledge of the situation.

WASHINGTON — The IRS commissioner has asked the Treasury Department’s internal watchdog to immediately review the circumstances surrounding intensive tax audits that targeted ex-FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, frequent targets of Donald Trump’s ire during his presidency. IRS spokesperson Jodie Reynolds said...

James Comey and Andrew McCabe’s audits have been requested for review by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration by IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig. The request follows a New York Times article claiming that both men’s tax returns were the subject of thorough scrutiny. Although the audits are...

Former FBI officials Jim Comey and Andrew McCabe were selected for a rare IRS audit program that the tax agency says is random, according to new NYT reporting. Michael Schmidt joins Morning Joe to discuss.July 7, 2022.

The IRS said it was 'ludicrous and untrue to suggest that senior IRS officials somehow targeted specific individuals.'