Finance Democrats say they'll demand vote on Trump audit immunity - Live Updates - POLITICO

“Elected officials cannot look taxpayers in the eye and ask them to play by a set of rules that the president of the United States is exempt from,” Wyden said in a statement. “Tomorrow, senators on the Finance Committee will be able to go on the record about where they stand.”…

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/07/29/congress/trump-audit-immunity-vote-01015286

Trump should not be the first American in history to get immunity from tax audits

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Eo6o-B3reOU

An Arizona Sheriff’s Office Misused $163M Related to Racial Profiling Case — ProPublica

Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was misattributed or misappropriated...

 https://www.propublica.org/article/maricopa-county-sheriff-audit

 

DoJ inspector general to audit department’s compliance with Epstein Files Transparency Act

Mandated release of files was marred by missed deadlines, leaked victims’ information and excessive redactions…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/23/epstein-files-transparency-act-audit

 

How Florida lost track of 30,000 students, a ‘cautionary tale’ for vouchers - The Washington Post

But by the end of the 2024-25 school year, the program cost $398 million more than expected, according to a recently released report from Florida's auditor general… 

 On any given day, Florida's education department did not know where 30,000 students were going to school and could not account for the $270 million in taxpayer funds it took to support them, according to the state Senate Appropriations Committee on Pre-K-12 Education…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/12/08/florida-school-vouchers-audit/

 

Florida Vote Audit: Election Truth Alliance Uncovers Red Flags, Nathan Taylor

https://youtu.be/uh-5P8FN8a0?si=i8aipx6i_AUxp2Bs

 

IRS crackdown on wealthy Americans faces roadblocks

… And due to limited IRS and Department of Justice resources to pursue misdemeanor violations, a person who does not file a return is unlikely to face prosecution. As a result, many millionaires could simply be taking their chances, betting that they will face few consequences for not filing their tax returns…

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/05/irs-crackdown-on-wealthy-americans-faces-roadblocks-.html

Republicans finally get the news they've FEARED in Georgia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij6MFciYJ1I

Conservative nonprofit didn’t disclose some political spending, filings show - POLITICO

The American Accountability Foundation, which has promoted its research against Biden nominees, says it's being audited by the IRS...

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/22/american-accountability-foundation-lobbying-political-spending-00148510

FAA Audit of Boeing’s 737 Max Production Found Dozens of Issues - The New York Times

The company failed 33 of 89 audits during an examination conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration after a panel blew off an Alaska Airlines jet in January...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/us/politics/faa-audit-boeing-737-max.html

Opinion: Two surprising takes from Trump's tax returns | CNN

Surprise number two is that the IRS did nothing. At all. And this notwithstanding the fact that the Internal Revenue Manual, or IRM, contains a policy, in place since 1977, that the "[i]ndividual income tax returns for the President and Vice President are subject to mandatory examinations." But the IRS did not do any examination of Trump's tax returns until after the Democrats took control of the House, and Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal sent a request on April 3, 2019…

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/22/opinions/donald-trump-tax-returns-mccaffery/index.html

Records show IRS ignored rule, delayed audit of Trump’s finances

The committee set out to scrutinize the IRS's presidential audit program and it found a problem with the IRS's presidential audit program. 

"The tax forms were really never audited," Neal said during a news conference after the vote, "and only my sending a letter at one point, prompted sort of a rear-view response,"...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/records-show-irs-ignored-rule-delayed-audit-trumps-finances-rcna62718

Trump made up audit excuse for not releasing tax returns on fly, book says

She writes: "Former employees said he followed unusual business practices, such as accepting cash for lease payments and maintenance services, recalling that one parking garage leaseholder for the General Motors building sent over the cash portion of the lease in dozens of gold bars."…

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/30/trump-audit-tax-returns-plane-chris-christie-maggie-haberman-book

Cyber Ninjas CEO Refuses To Comply With Order To Turn Over Records From Arizona Audit | HuffPost Latest News

…Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah early this month found the Ninjas in contempt of a court order for failing to produce the audit records, and he imposed a $50,000-a-day fine until the company complied. Soon after, the Ninjas firm quickly shut down…

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doug-logan-cyber-ninjas-records-refusal-deposition_n_61f4955be4b02de5f5192872

Opinion | The Arizona ‘audit’ successfully persuaded Republicans that the voting was fraudulent. A Monmouth poll confirms it. - The Washington Post

…The whole point of these sham audits — and other efforts to delegitimize the 2020 outcome, which continue today — is to keep Republican voters enraged and energized, and worse, to possibly lay the justificatory foundation for overturning future election losses by whatever means are necessary and available...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/15/arizona-audit-republicans-monmouth-poll/

Ariz. Republicans tell Congress: Maricopa County held ‘free, fair and accurate election’ that Biden won - The Washington Post

Republican officials from Arizona told Congress on Thursday that Maricopa County conducted a "free, fair and accurate election" in November, that Joe Biden won the state and that a Republican-commissioned review of nearly 2.1 million ballots in the county did not find the widespread fraud claimed by former president Donald Trump...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/election-trump-arizona-republicans/2021/10/07/f11d8acc-2770-11ec-8831-a31e7b3de188_story.html

Head of Wisconsin 'audit' admits he doesn't know how elections work

"Most people, myself included, do not have a comprehensive understanding or even any understanding of how elections work," Gableman conceded on Tuesday...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/head-wisconsin-audit-admits-he-doesn-t-know-how-elections-n1281020

'Laughable' Cyber Ninjas' Arizona Recount Missed 16,000 Votes, Says Experts' Review | HuffPost

… The Cyber Ninjas had claimed that its hand count nearly matched certified election results; it did not, the review noted. Nor did it match a machine count of votes arranged by the company's employer, the state Senate...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cyber-ninjas-arizona-recount-analysis_n_6158c513e4b0502542339309

MAGA Fan Behind Arizona Audit Crushes Yet Another Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theory | HuffPost

Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan says a memo circulating in right-wing media isn't from him...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cyber-ninjas-conspiracy-theory-decertify-trump-results_n_6153bca2e4b075408bd002c4

Opinion | The Arizona audit’s conclusion backfires on Trump — and wrecks a big GOP lie - The Washington Post

… The conclusion to this ugly saga did backfire, in that it blew up efforts to sustain the big lie about 2020. But the real story here is that it blows up the big lie that Republicans investigating "election fraud" are merely trying to restore confidence in our elections, when in fact they continue to try to undermine it. And that story isn't going away...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/24/arizona-audit-just-destroyed-big-gop-lie-more-ways-than-one/