Posted on 04/13/2017 2:50:26 PM PDT by blam
After Obama administration refused to review IRS conduct, Republicans request fresh look at evidence
House Republicans Rep. Peter Roskam (R., Ill.) and Rep. Kevin Brady (R., Texas) wrote a letter to the Department of Justice urging the agency to investigate evidence regarding Lois Lerner's misconduct in the IRS targeting scandal after the Obama administration refused to hold anyone accountable.
The IRS began targeting conservative and tea party groups' applications for tax-exempt status based on their political ideology in 2010 and delayed their approval before the 2012 presidential election. Some groups are still waiting for their status to be approved.
Lois Lerner, who headed the tax-exempt status division of the IRS at the time, confessed in 2013 at an American Bar Association meeting that conservative groups were targeted on political beliefs, but blamed low-level employees for the targeting. That same month, Lerner pleaded the fifth at the Oversight and Government Reform House committee.
In 2014, the House Ways and Means committee voted to send a letter to the Justice Department to refer Lerner for criminal prosecution. Former President Obama said during the Justice Department's investigation that there was not a smidgeon of corruption at the IRS. Later in October 2015, it was announced that the agency would not bring charges against Lerner, and no one was held responsible.
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and fire that POSJohn Koskinen !
I agree. Why is he still at his desk? Koskinen is one arrogant, despicable creature. He makes my skin crawl.
IMHO Lois used the IRS for political purposes. She needs to go to jail for that.
Glad to see it would be a Justice Department that will do the investigation. The last suggestion was a House investigation which as usual would be useless.
No justice, no peace!
Use the Dem tactic of lawfare. Make her spend at least $500,000 on lawyer fees like the Dems did to Scoot Libby.
Did Lois leave town?
I thought her hubby had a pretty good job, but I cannot remember where he works.
Help me....my memory has slipped.
I’m still waiting for those Fast and Furious documents, that they held Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for!
It’s tax season and I’d bet they are recording everything he does. He’s a rat in a cage and a trash can full of water is waiting for him.
Dismantle the IRS.
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