Let's guess.A key House Democrat said he’s consulting lawyers about whether to make public a complaint by a federal employee about possible misconduct in the Internal Revenue Service’s auditing of President Donald Trump.
The complaint raises allegations about “inappropriate efforts to influence” the audit process, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal said in a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in August. Neal told reporters on Friday that a decision on releasing the complaint depends on advice he receives from lawyers for the House of Representatives.
The release of such a complaint could bolster Neal’s lawsuit seeking to obtain six years of Trump’s tax returns, which he filed in July after the Treasury Department rejected the committee’s request.
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Neal has cited his committee’s oversight of the presidential audit process to support his lawsuit.
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Neal’s Aug. 8 letter to Mnuchin asked for communications between IRS and Treasury employees involved in the audit process, and asked Mnuchin to reply by Aug. 13. The lawmaker’s office didn’t respond to a request for comment about whether Mnuchin had submitted the documents.
Bloomberg
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPDATE:
The people briefed on its contents said, for the first time, that the complaint pertained to allegations of interference in the audit process by at least one Treasury Department official. They also said, for the first time, that the complaint revealed that the whistleblower is a career IRS official.
WaPo
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