Woman who questioned Gore now faces IRS inquiry
By Bill Sammon
THE WASHINGTON TIMES-August 30, 2000
The woman who sharply questioned Vice President Al Gore at a
town-hall meeting about Juanita Broaddrick's rape accusation
against President Clinton has become the subject of an inquiry by
the Internal Revenue Service.
"I find it very suspicious," said Katherine Prudhomme, who
subjected Mr. Gore to several long, uncomfortable minutes of
questioning about the Broaddrick case in December. "I feel like
I'm being harassed."
Mrs. Prudhomme said she was notified of the IRS inquiry on
Aug. 18, one day before she delivered a long-planned speech about
Mrs. Broaddrick outside Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign
headquarters in New York.
After the speech, she walked into the headquarters and gave
a videotape of Mrs. Broaddrick's NBC interview to a campaign
aide, asking that it be forwarded to Mrs. Clinton.
Although the IRS did not initiate a formal audit of Mrs.
Prudhomme, the tax agency has demanded expense forms pertaining
to her daughter's schooling in 1998.
"My taxes are far too simple for them to audit me," she told
The Washington Times. "So they said I owe them $1,500 if I don't
come up with these forms from my child's school that I sent in
two years ago and that they must have lost. It doesn't make
sense."
Mrs. Prudhomme, a homemaker in Derry, N.H., is doubly
suspicious because in June she accused the IRS of auditing Mrs.
Broaddrick's nursing home business "for political reasons."
The accusation was contained in an op-ed newspaper column
that also questioned audits of Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers and
Elizabeth Ward Gracen, all of whom have accused Mr. Clinton of
sexual affairs or advances.
"We certainly don't target people" for political reasons,
said an IRS spokesperson who asked to remain anonymous. "The IRS
strictly adheres to a standard of reviewing cases only when there
are questions involving tax law. No other factors enter into our
procedures."
Gore spokesman Jano Cabrera said: "We have nothing to do
with the IRS or its activities."
The Prudhomme case recalls the case of Glenn and Patricia
Mendoza, who were attending a festival in Chicago in July 1993
when they encountered Mr. Clinton, who staged an impromptu visit
to shake hands with voters. Mrs. Mendoza was the first person the
president approached, but she refused to shake his hand.
"You suck, and those boys died," Mrs. Mendoza told Mr.
Clinton, referring to the June 1993 truck-bombing at a U.S.
barracks in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen.
After the president departed, the Secret Service apprehended
the Mendozas, who were accused of unruliness. They were arrested
by Chicago police and later investigated by the IRS. After the
tax agency's inquiry was publicized by The Times, the IRS dropped
the matter, blaming it on a "computer error."
Yesterday, Mr. Mendoza said he was not surprised that Mrs.
Prudhomme has been targeted.
He said he sympathizes with her plight because IRS secrecy
makes it impossible to prove the tax agency is motivated by
reasons of politics rather than finance.
"Nobody believes you � that's the hard part," he said. "It
sounds like you're a nut case. And so they're really in a quite
unique position to keep doing this to people."
In an effort to find concrete evidence of political
motivation, Mrs. Prudhomme has enlisted Judicial Watch, a
conservative legal foundation that has long been a thorn in the
Clinton-Gore administration's side.
Yesterday, Judicial Watch invoked the Freedom of Information
Act in requesting any documents pertaining to Mrs. Prudhomme that
might exist in the offices of Mr. Gore, Mr. Clinton, the IRS, the
Secret Service and the FBI.
"We blanketed everybody," said Judicial Watch chairman Larry
Klayman. "There's an eerie symmetry here in that our client,
Juanita Broaddrick, gets a tax audit after she sues the White
House."
The Clinton-Gore IRS has targeted the National Rifle
Association and numerous conservative organizations and
individuals who have crossed the administration.
The audits sparked the first congressional inquiry of
accusations of political abuses by the IRS since the Nixon era,
although the tax agency has steadfastly denied political
motivations.
Mrs. Prudhomme, a self-described "rape survivor," flummoxed
Mr. Gore during the town-hall meeting by asking him if he
believed Mrs. Broaddrick's claim that Mr. Clinton once raped her.
Last year's interview of Mrs. Broaddrick by NBC's Lisa Myers
electrified the nation, 80 percent of whom told pollsters they
believed her story.
"My question to you is not a question about you being a
presidential candidate, but a question to you as a husband, a
father and a student of Christianity," Mrs. Prudhomme told the
vice president. "When Juanita Broaddrick made the claim, which I
found to be quite credible, that she was raped by Bill Clinton,
did it change your opinion about him being one of the best
presidents in history?
"And do you believe Juanita Broaddrick's claim?" she added.
"And what did you tell your son about this?"
"Well, I didn't know what to make of her claim, because I
don't know how to evaluate that story," Mr. Gore replied. "I
didn't see the interview. . . . What show was it on?"
Mr. Gore went on to defend his boss.
"Whatever mistakes he made in his personal life are, in the
minds of most Americans, balanced against what he has done in his
public life as president," he said. "I'm taught in my religious
tradition to hate the sin and love the sinner. I'm taught that
all of us are . . . prone to the mistakes that flesh is heir to."
Mrs. Prudhomme was employed at a musical instrument factory
in 1998, although she currently spends her time home-schooling
her daughter.
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