Lois Lerner says she faced death threats over IRS tea party targeting

Washington Times ^ | 4/13/2017 | Stephan Dinan

[Signalman]

Former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner told a federal court this week that she faces the possibility of death threats if her role in the tax agency’s tea party targeting becomes public, and asked a judge to forever seal her upcoming deposition in a class action lawsuit brought by hundreds of groups that were targeted.

Mr. Lerner and Holly Paz, another figure from the IRS’s tea party targeting, told the judge they’ve already faced “harassment and death threats” before, when the press was intently covering the tea party scandal. “Mss. Lerner and Paz have demonstrated that the public dissemination of their deposition testimony would expose them and their families to harassment and a credible risk of violence and physical harm,” they said in documents submitted by their lawyer to Judge Michael R. Barrett.

Both Ms. Lerner and Ms. Paz are among IRS figures who’ve been ordered to be deposed in the class action lawsuit. Ms. Paz already gave one deposition in the case in 2015. The women want that past deposition, and their future testimony, to remain hidden from the public and only available to the lawyers involved in the case. They asked that the seal be permanent. Ms. Lerner has refused to talk in public about her role in the targeting, famously engaging in a showdown with the

[5cents]

I do not think she is lying. But those threats likely come from the shadow left. Her truthing would hardly cause her victims suffering, so it must be her handlers.

[5cents]

I do not think she is lying. But those threats likely come from the shadow left. Her truthing would hardly cause her victims suffering, so it must be her handlers.

[Terry L Smith]

So, does it not follow to think that ‘MAGA America Citizens’ will not forget THEIR enemies, either???

[Liz]

Helpful to remember that THEY drew the battle lines.

Americans were minding their own business when they found out their votes had been weaponized..... and suppressed.... and that the IRS was doing target practice on THEM.

[hal ogen]

This criminal fascist should be in prison.

[anton]

If well meaning people would just get off their arses and get something done . . .

[Liz]

Oughta do it this way: full investigations centering on RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because:

(1) the person (2) was employed by, or associated with, a federally-funded enterprise (3) that engaged in, or affected, interstate commerce; and that (4) persons operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a “pattern” (6) of racketeering activity, and that (7) taxpayers were injured by reason of the “pattern” of racketeering activity.

[eartick]

Yeah death threats from the Obama nation when she starts spilling the beans.... Lock the biotch up for her own good