White House Adviser’s Comment on Koch Taxes Probed
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The Treasury Department is reviewing complaints by Republicans that White House adviser Austan Goolsbee may have broken confidentiality laws by commenting on the tax structure of Koch Industries Inc., a political foe of President Barack Obama.
Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, told Iowa Senator Charles Grassley, the top Republican on the tax-writing Finance Committee, in a Sept. 28 letter that he has begun a review at the senator’s request. The panel’s six other Republicans also sought the probe.