Comey and McCabe IRS Audits Under Review by Treasury Watchdog

The Treasury Department’s inspector general will review why two former FBI officials who ran afoul of former President Donald Trump were subjected to rare and detailed tax audits.

The intensive Internal Revenue Service audits of former FBI Director James Comey and Andrew McCabe, the deputy FBI director who later ran the agency after Comey’s firing by Trump, prompted demands for an investigation by top congressional Democrats and Republicans after they were reported Wednesday night by the New York Times.

IRS spokeswoman Jodie Reynolds said that the IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, who was appointed by Trump, has turned the ...