When Juanita Broaddrick came forward with her allegations last year that Bill Clinton had raped her in a hotel room in the late 1970s, she was prepared for the worst: public incredulity, Clintonista attacks, even, she used to joke with her family, “an IRS audit.” Having suffered the two former, she dismissed the likelihood of the latter. “Oh no, they wouldn’t possibly do that,” Broaddrick now says she believed at the time. But just six months after she allowed Larry Klayman’s Judicial Watch to sue the Clinton administration on her behalf to obtain access to the FBI file she suspects was kept on her, her lucky number came up.
“I think I could win the lottery right now,” Broaddrick says of the IRS letter she received last week announcing that the Brownwood Manor nursing home that she has owned since 1974 is, for the first time in its history, being audited.
Exactly why is a mystery to her. “Our business has not changed in any way — no change in ownership, no change in anything,” she says. “I can’t imagine what would draw someone’s attention to my business.” Unless, as she suspects, it’s because of her charges of assault against the president of the United States. “I feel like it’s politically motivated,” Broaddrick says. When asked why anyone in Clinton’s position would risk bringing attention to charges that have been largely ignored, she says nonchalantly, “They’ve gotten away with everything else they’ve ever done. Why would this be any different?”
While the administration has denied any connection to the audit, many Clinton nemeses have also become IRS lotto winners: the American Spectator, the Western Journalism Center, and Travelgate scapegoat Billy Dale, to name a few. Among the Clinton women alone, Broaddrick, Paula Jones, and Elizabeth Ward Gracen have drawn IRS audits. According to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, the chance of being audited is 1 in 110. If there has indeed been no targeting by the administration, that must mean — statistically, anyway — that there are somewhere in the neighborhood of another 330 Clinton women at large.
