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Federal Judge Threatens To Hold IRS Commissioner, DOJ Lawyers in Contempt of Court over Lerner
Judicial Watch ^
| July 29 2015
Posted on 07/29/2015 1:37:47 PM PDT by Hojczyk
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced that U.S District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan today threatened to hold the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department attorneys in contempt of court after the IRS failed to produce status reports and newly recovered emails of Lois Lerner, former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the IRS, as he had ordered on July 1, 2015.
During the a status hearing today, Sullivan warned that the failure to follow his order was serious and the IRS and Justice Departments excuses for not following his July 1 order were indefensible, ridiculous, and absurd. He asked the IRS Justice Department lawyer Geoffrey Klimas, Why didnt the IRS comply with his court order and why shouldnt the Court hold the Commissioner of the IRS in contempt. Judge Sullivan referenced his contempt findings against Justice Department prosecutors in the prosecution of late Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) and reminded the Justice Department attorney he had the ability to detain him for contempt. Warning he would tolerate no further disregard of his orders, Judge Sullivan said, I will haul into court the IRS Commissioner to hold him personally into contempt.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: irsscandal; jw; lerneremails
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To: Hojczyk
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posted on
07/29/2015 2:04:42 PM PDT
by
NEMDF
To: NEMDF
a federal judge threatening Obama is about as believable as Jimmy Carter’s “line of death”.
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posted on
07/29/2015 2:09:30 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: MrB
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posted on
07/29/2015 2:19:00 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: Hojczyk
O.k. I have changed my mind. I will pay my taxes when Lois Lerner is dead.
Traitorous taxing twat.
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posted on
07/29/2015 2:19:10 PM PDT
by
longfellow
(Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
To: Hojczyk
"Judge Sullivan said, I will haul into court the IRS Commissioner to hold him personally into contempt.Do it! Do it! Do it already!!!
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posted on
07/29/2015 2:22:58 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Hojczyk
Blah, blah, blah.
Either do it, or don’t.
Flapping your gums is a waste of time and oxygen.
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posted on
07/29/2015 2:28:30 PM PDT
by
Arm_Bears
(Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
To: Hojczyk
I like this judge BUT ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS JUDGE!
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posted on
07/29/2015 2:28:46 PM PDT
by
teletech
To: Hojczyk
Damn...this is all so painful to watch. The level of corruption is nothing short of stunning.
How in sam hell can we have any confidence in anything coming from this gubbamint?
To: Hojczyk
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posted on
07/29/2015 2:31:36 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Poison Pill; Hojczyk
Unfortunately you are correct.
Chance of anything happening is south of slim and none.
Truth is the GOPe wanted the Tea Party supressed just as much as the dems.
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posted on
07/29/2015 2:37:44 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: Hojczyk
-— Warning he would tolerate no further disregard of his orders, Judge Sullivan said, I will haul into court the IRS Commissioner to hold him personally into contempt. -—
There is at least one righteous man.
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posted on
07/29/2015 2:38:18 PM PDT
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: TexasCajun
He is the creepiest bureaucrat of them all.
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posted on
07/29/2015 2:40:49 PM PDT
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: Hojczyk
It would be a good thing if he did
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posted on
07/29/2015 2:46:11 PM PDT
by
Nifster
To: tumblindice
Agree
Like many DC lawyers, they are only doing what their corrupt Dem bosses tell them to do.
However, tonight, some have told their bosses, “Massa, I ain’t goin to da pokey for ya.”
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posted on
07/29/2015 3:00:43 PM PDT
by
Crystal Palace East
("We Must All Hang Together, or Assuredly We Will All Hang Separately" B. Franklin)
To: Hojczyk
Haul their asses off to jail and maybe one or more will crack and tell all they know.
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posted on
07/29/2015 3:12:41 PM PDT
by
The Great RJ
(“Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.” Margaret Thatcher)
To: Hojczyk
Anyone else would already be behind bars. These judges handle government officials with tenderness and care. When the government goes after Joe Schlep, he's detained, cuffed, house ransacked, dog shot, wife and children violated, fridge raided, drugs planted, job endangered, bank accounts seized, property destroyed, etc.
This judge, like all of them, puts on a show but hasn't got the guts to do anything more than bark and yap.
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posted on
07/29/2015 3:38:38 PM PDT
by
Thumper1960
(A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
To: Hojczyk
I like this judge.
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posted on
07/29/2015 3:42:06 PM PDT
by
Robert357
(D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
To: Hojczyk
Lerner needs to be in prison NOW!!!!!!
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posted on
07/29/2015 4:28:32 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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