IRS exec got $42K in bonuses in three years

Lois Lerner, the senior executive in charge of the IRS tax exemption department and the federal employee at the center of the exploding scandal over the IRS targeting of conservative, evangelical and pro-Israel non-profits, was given $42,531 in bonuses between 2009 and 2011.

Some background on Lois Lerner and Eric Holder: (connections?):

Federal Election Commission Record

Lois Lerner Designated Acting General Counsel Following the January 2001 resignation the FEC’s General Counsel, Lawrence M. Noble, Lois G. Lerner became the Acting General Counsel of the Federal Election Commission. This appointment will last for a period of six months, during which time the Commission will conduct an open selection process to fill the General Counsel’s position.

Ms. Lerner joined the staff of the FEC’s Office of General Counsel in 1981 and most recently served as the FEC’s Associate General Counsel for Enforcement. Prior to joining the FEC, she was a staff attorney in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice. She is a graduate of Northeastern University in Boston and received her Juris Doctor from Western New England College of Law in Springfield, Massachusetts.✦

Eric Holder Biography

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In 1976 (until 1988-my insert here), Holder earned his law degree, and The Department of Justice gave him a job as part of the attorney general's honors program. He was assigned to the newly formed Public Integrity Section, which investigated and prosecuted official corruption on the local, state and federal levels.

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