[strider44]

"This guy has a lot of guts not to play it the way the Feds want him to. He could now be on a permanent **** list."

I agree. Guess who's going to get a visit from The IRS next year. A nice long painful audit for his troubles...

[demosthenes the elder]

not necessarily so. since he was wise enough to document the FBI visitation as a matter of public record, and given the very low odds of anyone getting audited (the IRS is waaayyyy behind), such malicious misuse of the IRS would very easily be shown for what it is (punitive and malicious) and would resuld in the Feds getting another black eye.