Posted on 08/10/2018 11:36:37 AM PDT by 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 its made changes so that political targeting cant 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 weeks 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
“Lois was out trimming her rose bushes today, fully enjoying her massive government pension. *spit*”
As long as government workers are not held accountable the criminal behavior of the bureaucrats will continue and the few times the government, not the worker, is found guilty the taxpayer will pay the fine.
Such is justice in the court system today. Meanwhile the GOP Congress that was going to end the misbehavior continues to party with the K Street lobbyists and undermine the president.
I filed my 2016 return Dec 27 2017.
It was on paper.
I believe the i.r.s. for unknown reasons is singling me out. Its now 9 months later and still no closure. All we get is the infamous 60 day letters. We need more time ... you will hear from us in 60 days. Been going on for NINE MONTHS.
Its like we are being punished because we did this ourselves. We didn’t hire any tax preparer.
Anybody else with this horrible treatment.
Great. Taxpayers pay for Obama’s crimes.
Exactly! The people in government responsible for wrongdoing never have to pay. Taxpayers get stuck with the bill. No wonder we have an imperial bureaucracy that rules us.
Peanuts.
Needs to be taken out of IRS pension funds.
Maybe the court should require the federal employees involved to pay a percentage of the settlement.
That’s not enough money... Tea party groups should have won more...
IRS employés should have gone to jail and obama removed from office
after 19 months sessions and trump are part of the cover up because they did nothing
This settlement must repay the TEA Party groups for their legal expenses or this is not just.
tea party victory costing tea party patriots more tax money...
IRS needs to be ended.
Fair Tax Now.
can you link me a source for McCain’s involvement
The money didn’t come out of Lois’ retirement check, it’s coming out of the taxpayer’s pockets. How did the Tea Party get revenge against the IRS?
I will look for one. That statement about his making the suggestion was posted about a month ago.
Due date was April, 2017 not Decemeber, 2017.
It was on paper.
So was mine.
Anybody else with this horrible treatment.
I wouldn't know. I have never filed THAT late.
FReegards!
thanx two threads here’s one.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3278222/posts
Doesn’t mean anything if it doesn’t come out of Lerner and Koskinens’ hides.
The criminals get off Scot free and make 5X that per month from the government.
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