Tea party groups get revenge against IRS as judge approves $3.5 million payout

Wash Times ^ | Aug 9, 2018 | Steven Dinan

[upchuck]

A judge late Wednesday signed off on the settlement between the IRS and hundreds of tea party groups, closing out the last major legal battle over what all sides now agree was unwarranted and illegal targeting for political purposes.

The IRS agreed to pay $3.5 million to groups that were wronged by the intrusive inspections, and insists it’s made changes so that political targeting can’t occur in the future.

A few issues are still being fought over in the courts — including whether former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner will be allowed to forever shield her deposition explaining her behavior from public view, and whether the IRS should pay attorney fees — but this week’s decision closes out five years of litigation over the targeting itself.

“It shows that when a government agency desires to target citizens based on their viewpoints, a price will be paid,” said Edward Greim, the lawyer who led the class action case in federal court in Cincinnati.

[Rashputin]

Against the IRS ?

It's our money the IRS pays out, how does that punish the IRS a bit?

They'll just confiscate enough property to sell off for $3.5 million plus administrative costs.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

In other news today, IRS requests Congress to increase it’s budget $3.5 million.

[NorthMountain]

The IRS agreed to pay $3.5 million of other peoples' money ...

Won't cost the actual miscreants a dime.

[Company Man]

FUBO

[Major Matt Mason]

Yep, the taxpayer is footing the bill for this while the perps remain gainfully employed or are collecting their pensions. There is at least some recompense for the affected orgs, but that outcome only ensures that it will happen again.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#4: "it was John McCain who suggested … the Tea Party should be bankrupted"

Where is John McCain? Is he in hospice, or hospital, or at home?

It's sad to see that the days of the National Enquirer getting the scoop on dying celebrities appear to be over. I'd love to be standing in the grocery checkout line and see John McCain's emaciated, dying corpse emptily staring back at me from the magazine rack.
 

[ExSES]

While I celebrate the win for the groups screwed over by Obama's IRS..., I loathe the fact that we "Taxpayers" pick up the tab for the group of thieves in Obama's administration (as usual)!

[GOP Poet]

agree

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“Lois Lerner still collects a government pension.”

If you think $17K covers 10 years of litigation, I got news for you.

[nuke_road_warrior]

Take it out of Lois’s and Barry’s Pensions.

[lee martell]

I think McCain died somewhere around Memorial Day (May).
Cindy is writing these ‘opinions’ in John’s name.
Mr. Trump knows if McCain is still alive or not. Announcing now he has actually passed on, would result in a distracting power struggle among the RINO set.

It would result in unproductive grandstanding by people like Mitt Romney, eager to become
the next “Master Cylinder-RINO” figure.
Watch and see, a few weeks after the midterms, after all the electoral dust has settled and the articles have been
written. Only then, will John McCain be officially allowed to die and vanish as a way to effect voters.

[Regulator]

3.5 mil = roundoff error in IRS entertainment budget

[Timocrat]

Another scandal that didn’t embarrass the Obama White House.

[Ann Archy]

But...it’s OUR MONEY!! Take her PENSION to pay SOME of it!!

[Ann Archy]

REALLY??? It was JOHN McCAIN?? The SAME John McCain that is involved in the MUELLER/RUSSIAN AFFAIR???? hmmmm….he SHOULD be in PRISON!

[FLT-bird]

Those responsible need to be going to jail. As others have pointed out, handing out more of the taxpayer’s money does not punish the guilty. A government bureaucrat who broke the law losing their pension and going to prison would send a valuable message not to ever do this again.

[so_real]

It's a meaningless award unless the money comes out of the pension's of the offenders. Otherwise, it's just another tax on We the People. I'd much rather see justice in the form of having their asses thrown in jail.

[raiderboy]

That is your money!! I want Lois in PRISON!! Ill be glad to spend that money. Where is that wimp Sessions?

[Harpotoo]

Don’t worry as he’ll be low enough soon.

[Michael.SF.]