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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Listen, Dick.
You started in with hostility, when I suggested you research what the “FAIR Tax” was before calling for it. The ‘FAIR Tax’ is a liberal’s dream.
That makes you too ignorant to argue with. Go look it up for yourself, Dick.
I was on the Board of Directors of the first iteration of the national sales tax back in the 90’s, so back off. Tell the gang WHAT YOU propose to rid us of the hated income tax?
The let illiterates on the board of directors?
That explains a lot.
Yes. And I remember that you were constantly late for those meetings. Turned out you couldn’t tell time. Representative Linder finally threw you off.
You were on a tax board? in the 90’s?
you did excellent work, Dick.
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