Another Whistleblower Has Come Forward

(Business Insider) Another whistleblower complaint alleges possible misconduct in an audit of President Donald Trumps taxes. Rep. Richard Neal the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee which has jurisdiction over taxes tariffs and other social-assistance programs sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on August 8 saying that a federal employee submitted an unsolicited communication on July 29 outlining allegations of inappropriate efforts to influence the mandatory IRS audit of Trumps and Vice President Mike Pences tax returns. In his letter first widely reported this week Neal described the whistleblowers allegations of evidence of possible misconduct as credible. This is a grave charge that appreciably heightens the Committees concerns about the absence of appropriate safeguards as part of the mandatory audit program and whether statutory codification of such program or other remedial legislative measures are warranted he wrote.