Posted on 06/15/2013 12:51:50 AM PDT by South40
Embattled IRS official Holly Paz is believed to have been fired from the scandal-ridden agency, indicating that the growing IRS scandal could end up implicating more IRS agents than previously thought.
Paz, the director of the IRS Rulings and Agreements division, has virtually disappeared since her reported Friday firing, and her computer is now inactive.
A Fox News anchor said Friday that Paz’s firing has been confirmed.
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Probably a high paying position in the WH.
Remember Trent Lott? Makes a joke at a private party for Strom Thurman, and he's hounded out of office.
The Republicans have a knee jerk reaction to clean house if their members are not "perfect." The Democrats just laugh off or ignore the scandals and say "let's just move on."
Maybe the difference is that the Democrats control the MSM and can thereby control the public debate.
That's progress. But the only 'Rat who matters is the top 'Rat. The fish rots from the head. Michael Stanley Dukakis said so in 1988.
Wait for it...oh, they just rehired her. /sarc
JoMa
IF she has REALLY been fired, she needs to be hauled before CONGRESS...especially Jim Jordan and Louie Goehmert!!
They feel if they throw enough overboard the dogs will get off thier tail
Well, I understand Ed Snowden’s job is available.
She will probably be managing government contracts for a private Law firm.
Plus a nice lifetime pension.
Was she an hourly employee or salaried? It’s important as the salaried folks are management types that need firing.
Interesting that we’re at the stage where scapegoats are being fingered and pink slipped.
So now the Democrats can say, “Look, the guilty parties have been found and fired. It’s over. Time to move on.”
Sekolow’s not going to let them off the hook. Hope the GOP doesn’t either.
Her pension would be, at most, about $11,000 per year ~ payable at 62 (the minimum retirement age).
Is that a 'nice' pension?
BTW, if you don't live to 62 you don't get it, and no one can inherit it.
She reported directly to Lois Lerner who took the 5th before Congress...this is just to throw the GOP a bone.
I thought govt. employees received 60-75 percent of the best earning years. I’d be happy with 75 percent of $110 K.
So now the Democrats can say, “Look, the guilty parties have been found and fired. It’s over. Time to move on.”
Daniel Werfel, the (can you believe it) "principal deputy commissioner and deputy commissioner for services" of the IRS is, not surprisingly, cleaning house. This is not likely to include the GUILTY but surely will capture those underlings who were mostly just following orders. Standard Operating Procedure.
I would add one additional factor that may have contributed to the fate of Ms. Paz: She testified, perhaps too honestly, to the Issa committee. As the Daily Beast reported:
"And yet, note how Issa characterized Paz’s private testimony: “The committee has learned from Ms. Paz that she in fact participated in an IRS internal investigation that concluded in May of 2012, May 3 of 2012, and found essentially the same thing that Mr. George found more than a year later. Think about it. For more than a year, the IRS knew that it had inappropriately targeted groups of Americans based on their political beliefs, and without mentioning it, and in fact without honestly answering questions that were the result of this internal investigation.”
This was important news and it was first divulged by Ms. Paz. Not what you would call "Career Enhancing Testimony" if you are in the Obama Administration.
Or they have no shame.
The 'bonus' system doesn't count toward your high 3, and you don't get to take any part of a federal bonus and put it in the thrift savings plan or an IRA ~ not as good a deal as Romney got back when he transferred from his old company to his new company (giving himself an enormous IRA). The federales trashed that idea long ago and it applies to the bottom of the scale as well as the top.
The intention is to make sure federal employees do not become independently wealthy. That way they are always available for bribing. Let them become rich, and so the thinking goes, they might focus on their jobs and obeying the law!
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