The former FBI director and his deputy were audited by the IRS in the last two years.
The IRS audit program affected over 30,000 individual tax returns in two years.
The men were fired from the bureau after being attacked by the former president.
The New York Times reported that the former FBI director and his deputy were audited by the IRS.
According to a report by The Times, the IRS selected about 5,000 individuals who would go through an intensive audit out of 153 million taxpayers who filed for tax returns that year.
The FBI director who was fired by Trump over the bureau's investigation into Trump's ties to Russia was one of the people subject to the random audit.
The same type of audit by the IRS was performed on McCabe two years after he became acting FBI director. About one in 19,250 returns were audited out of 154 million that year.
A string of public attacks by the former president led to his dismissal a day before he was due to retire.
According to notices sent by the IRS and obtained by The Times, the IRS audited both of the returns that were filed with his spouse, as well as the one that was filed with his wife.
The results of this and other compliance research exams will improve our efforts to help taxpayers understand and follow the tax law. It will reduce unnecessary and costly exams.
Two former FBI directors, both of whom were against the incumbent president at the time, would be subjected to the random program given the slim chance of being selected for the audit.
John Koskinen, who served as IRS commissioner from 2013 to 2017, told The Times that lightning strikes are unusual.
Is lightning striking again in the same area? Do you think it happens? Koskinen kept going. Most people don't see that in their lives, so you don't need to be an anti- Trumper to look at that.
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