Failure to pay Social Security taxes for a nanny and chauffeur kept Zoe Baird from becoming President Bill Clinton‘s attorney general in 1993. (John Duricka / Associated Press)
Shirley Chater, former president of Texas Womans University, was Bill Clinton‘s nominee to head the Social Security Administration. In 1993, the White House said that she failed to pay Social Security taxes for a part-time baby sitter from 1969 to 1975. She paid the taxes before she was nominated and she was confirmed. (John Duricka / Associated Press)
Timothy Geithner was confirmed as Treasury secretary despite owing more than $34,000 in taxes, which he recently paid. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)
Former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) paid more than $140,000 in owed taxes and interest but withdrew his nomination to head the department of Health and Human Services. (Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune)
