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EXCLUSIVE: IRS Official Tied To Obama-Era Tea Party Scandal Now Running Tax-Exempt Division
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An employee at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) who was involved in targeting conservative groups during the Obama administration is now leading the same IRS division, according to a new memo from the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Robert Choi served as the director of the IRS’s Tax-Exempt Organizations Rulings and Agreements division in 2010, when the agency began applying heightened scrutiny to organizations associated with the Tea Party movement seeking tax-exempt status, the AAF found. Despite this history, Choi was reportedly recently promoted to acting commissioner of the Tax Exempt and Government Entities division, which handles the administration of tax laws that govern tax-exempt organizations.
Choi led the Tax-Exempt Organizations Rulings and Agreements division between 2007 and 2010, reporting to Lois Lerner, who admitted in 2013 to singling out applications containing the words “tea party” or “patriot” for tax-exempt status, resulting in her resignation. Emails showing Lerner describing Republicans as “crazies” and “a**holes” also fueled allegations of anti-conservative bias within the agency.
.....Choi is not the only IRS employee linked to the Tea Party scandal who currently holds a high-ranking position at the agency.
The May 8 IRS organization chart lists Holly Paz, who worked under Choi and later succeeded him as the director of the Rulings and Agreements division, as commissioner of the agency’s Large Business and International division. Paz was placed on administrative leave in 2013 due to her involvement in the scandal, but was later elevated to a prominent position in the agency during the Biden administration.
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