Neal Says Lawyers Aim to Talk to Trump Tax Audit Whistleblower

House lawyers are trying to speak with an IRS whistleblower who claims that audits of President Donald Trump’s tax returns have been improperly influenced, according to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.).

“It is accurate to say that there has been an individual who stepped forward and made some allegations” and that House legal counsel is “proceeding on the basis of trying to interview the individual,” Neal told reporters in Springfield, Mass., Oct. 1, according to audio posted by WAMC radio.

Neal cited the whistleblower’s complaint in a court filing in August, as part of an ...