Posted on 09/13/2022 10:45:35 AM PDT by bitt
NEW: Depositions of Obama IRS Officials Detail Knowledge of Tea Party Targeting
We have been at the forefront in uncovering the Obama IRS scandal that showed the agency’s abuse of conservative Americans and organizations in the run-up to the 2012 election. We’re still learning the details of their conspiracy.
We have just received previously sealed court documents, including depositions of IRS officials Lois Lerner, the former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and Holly Paz, her top aide and former IRS director of Office of Rulings and Agreements, which show they knew most Tea Party organizations were legally entitled to tax-exempt status.
The release comes in the December 2017 amicus curiae brief (friend of the court) we filed in NorCal Tea Party Patriots, et al. v. The Internal Revenue Service, et al. (No. 1:13-cv-00341). We argued that the documents we sought may shed light on government misconduct, and the shielding of internal government deliberations does not serve the public’s interest.
Lerner’s and Paz’s depositions were sealed by Judge Barrett in April 2017, after Lerner’s and Paz’s lawyers claimed the two officials were receiving threats. The court finally ordered the unsealing of the depositions four years after the plaintiffs requested the depositions be unsealed and only after the plaintiffs filed for a writ of mandamus to force action in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
The sworn depositions were given in 2017 by Lerner and Paz. In the newly unsealed deposition transcripts, the two IRS officials repeatedly have memory lapses and regularly plead ignorance of the fundamental matters in question.
The unsealed Lerner and Paz deposition transcripts reveal through sworn testimony the bureaucratic tangle created by the Obama IRS to single out, delay and deny the processing of conservative, especially Tea Party non-profit groups’ applications for tax-exempt status and to disclose their donors’ names. At the same time, Paz admits under questioning that she knew from the beginning there was not sufficient legal basis to deny most of the targeted groups tax exempt status:
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Even so little as corrective measures to prevent recurrence.....
So much justice denied
I think it’s about to get much worse with 87,000 new armed IRS enforcers. Now it won’t just be non-profits. It will be any conservative business or citizen. Welcome to the new China, courtesy of the Democrats and RINOs
I knew at the time that allowing Lerner to skate was a huge mistake and would come back to haunt us. She should have been prosecuted to the full extent of the law for her actions instead of being allowed to retire with a hefty tax payer funded package.
If it was a scandal, and no one suffered career impact, no one was arrested and there is business as usual, was it really a scandal?
I was part of that targeting here in El Dorado Hills when I was on the EDH Tea Party Board.
I remember distinctly when I found out from our President that they wanted virtually everything from us.
Included all notes from board meetings, all records of donations with names etc…, and THEY WANTED ALL OF OUR TAX RECORDS!!! Our personal ones.
I told the President to tell them to Füçk off and pound sand!
Bunch of BS.
Our Group were friends with the NorCal Tea Party and would help each other out and were very familiar with what the IRS was doing.
Does anyone have any information that could put these people in jail?
You have to give credit to Judicial Watch. They are tenacious. They have continue to pursue FOIA cases to get this information long after the issues have been white-washed and memory-holed by the media.
The pattern of illegal activity seems to rise to RICO levels here. Or I should say, here also.
Where are the lawyers who could bring such a class action RICO case against the perps?
Or has the beatdown that DOJ is trying on Trump dissuading and discouraging the efforts?
There a lot of individuals in positions that affect all of us, who has not one sensible brain node!!!.
I saw what’shisname talking about electric cars and saving the plant. The thing that came to mind.. how dumb he is!..and man can not save the planet.. how shallow their minds .
They get promoted and suddenly they are the one who knows all.
Wisdom does not come with the position.
Democrats have to cheat their way to the top. It’s their standard operating procedure.
Ping
no mention of the IRS threatening audits on the organizers.
unless it’s hidden under the IRS repeatedly saying to the organizers how they don’t have “tax-exempt status” and would have to file taxes and thereby be audited to bankruptcy
Lerner should be hanging from a scrub oak as Vulture food.
As should the rest of them.
ok I think I found it
Yes. But the information is held by the same person who has the information that would put Hillary Clinton, Comey, Strzok, Clapper, Brennan, Klinesmith, Schiff, Mueller, Steele, et al in jail.
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