"At least a dozen Clinton scandal witnesses – including Sexgate accusers Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Elizabeth Ward Gracen and Juanita Broaddrick – were targeted by audits during the 1990s."
"Conservative groups critical of the Clinton administration were also audited, including the Christian Coalition, Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Freedom Alliance, the Heritage Foundation, the NRA and others."
"Most of the suspicious audits took place when the IRS was run by Margaret Milner Richardson, a longtime friend of Sen. Hillary Clinton from their days together at Yale Law School."
These spurious audits didn't just happen to big named conservatives and groups during the Clintoon era. A lot of conservatives got hammered with phoney audits. If they were vocal at a local level about the Clintoons, had some power with the Republicans and were successful, they might be targets.
I had several friends, who owned their own businesses in several states get audited for years from about 1994 until GW won. Nothing was proven by the IRS. One relative was audited 5 times, and finally his CPA told him to stop writing letters to the fish wrap editors complaining about Clintoon. He spent over $100,000 and a lot of misery proving that he had done nothing.
Conservative Doctors across America, who fought the Hildebea$t and turned back her socialized medicine push, suddenly found themselves being audited as far back as the laws permitted. Many got tired of the fight and took early retirement from medicine.
This is just one more reason that the tax system needs to be scrapped and replaced with the Fair Tax, that way there wouldn't be any more audits.
It happened to me in '98, just as I was runnin for re-election!!!