Posted on 05/21/2013 12:40:53 PM PDT by 11th Commandment
Edited on 05/21/2013 12:48:43 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON – A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups.
Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening – or why she didn’t reveal it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor 3rd.
Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight committee Wednesday.
DOCUMENT: The Inspector General’s report on the IRS
“She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course,” said a letter by Taylor to committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa, R-Calif. The letter, sent Monday, was obtained Tuesday by the Los Angeles Times.
You are confusing Lois Lerner with Sarh Ingram.
http://www.zuckerman.com/william_taylor
William W. Taylor, III is a founding partner of Zuckerman Spaeder LLP and one of the country’s foremost litigators. Over the course of his 40-year career, he has litigated numerous high-profile civil and criminal matters, often under intense media scrutiny. Mr. Taylor practices in federal and state courts nationwide and has tried more than 60 cases to judgment. While an experienced trial lawyer, he is also well-known for his creative motions practice and is often successful in obtaining dismissal of charges against his clients before trial. He is equally at home in complex commercial litigations and straightforward credibility contests. Clients retain him not only for his litigation successes but also for his judgment and advice. Named one of Washington, DC’s top 30 “Superstar” attorneys by Washingtonian magazine in 2011, Mr. Taylor’s professional accomplishments have been noted with recognitions in publications such as The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA, International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, and Benchmark Litigation.
Mr. Taylor’s clients have included public officials such as former International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former Rep. Tom Feeney, and the late Sen. Alan Cranston; executives such as former New York Stock Exchange Compensation Committee chair Kenneth Langone and former Salt Lake City Olympic Committee chair Thomas Welch; and a wide variety of public and private organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, hedge funds, law firms, and unions, among others. He has conducted internal investigations in addition to representing clients in criminal prosecutions, regulatory enforcement, civil litigation, congressional investigation, and ethics inquiries. A former public defender, Mr. Taylor is also committed to pro bono work and his clients include death row inmates.
The realization is finally hitting many in the media that Democrats are going to PRISON over this, and that just doesn’t fit the Media-matters approved meme.
How soon until the cries of RASSISS! begin?
Treason is surely on display. I'm sure there are enough lamp posts and rope. If not, I will glady pay for some rope...and help with the executions.
5.56mm
At the end of Obama’s administration his “Pardon List” will be the size of the Manhattan Phone Book.
I think in fact the FBI is looking into the IRS. Also, testifying under oath in front of Congress can be self incriminating. That is why you don’t talk to Congress without immunity. Classic Oliver North strategy...
The same FBI that answers to Eric Holder and Barack Obama?
Don’t forget her husband’s connections:
Embattled IRS official Lois Lerner’s husband’s law firm has strong Obama connections
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/16/embattled-irs-official-lois-lerners-husbands-law-firm-hosted-an-obama-campaign-organizing-meeting/
and this connection to Obama’s brother’s non-profit:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/14/irs-official-lerner-approved-exemption-for-obama-brothers-charity/
Yep. She has the goods. She’ll get a deal, too.
Just WOW!
Is Lerner the one that looks like the Church Lady?
Works for me. Now she really sounds like the right person for the Obamacare job.
Get Christy Love on the case!
What did Valerie Jarrett know and when did she know it?
As if the presstitutes would've given Scooter Libby a break in Plamegate....
Thank you so much, maggief!
Cranston’s lawyer!
Invoking the fifth invokes memories of Watergate.
Two approaches here:
1. Give her immunity in exchange for her testimony
2. Suspend/Fire her immediately and conduct a proper investigation.
When asked if an “investigation” had commenced, he said he could not comment on that...the Senator said, ok that means there is...the IG just smiled.
An “investigation” would mean interviews under oath, subpoenas, etc.
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