Posted on 01/20/2016 5:20:14 PM PST by Nachum
Despite a court preservation order, the IRS has wiped the hard drive of their former director of transfer pricing operations, Samuel Maruca.
Maruca is connected to the agency’s controversial retainer of law firm Quinn Emanuel. The IRS privately contracted the litigation firm to assist in an audit of a corporate taxpayer, overlooking the firm’s lack of any experience managing sensitive tax data.
The IRS has faced criticism for its decision, specifically from Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) 43% . In a letter to the IRS, Senator Hatch voiced his concern that the agency’s $2.2 million tax-payer funded contract with the outside firm was completely unnecessary; the IRS currently employs 40,000 individuals trained to manage taxpayer data and audits, as well as the expertise of the Chief Counsel and Department of Justice attorney.
To protect taxpayers, there are strict regulations from Congress that limit the necessary functions of the auditing process — including acquiring sworn testimony — to officers of the Treasury Department. According to Senator Hatch, the IRS neglected to follow protocol when they hired the outside firm without first requesting authorization from Congress to do so. The Finance Committee has never before seen such functions relegated to private contractors.
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Courts are for little people.
The GOP starting with Issa and helped by Cummings
and Boehner helped this atrocity which links
to the White Mosque and McCain.
The GOP is complicit and more.
The IRS will take full responsibility, I predict.
Which means absolutely nothing.
See: EPA ruining a river in Colorado last year.
5.56mm
Don’t worry, Trey Gowdy will make things right. /sarc
Can we please have the revolution tomorrow?
Wiped? Like with a cloth?
What is going to happen to the person who ordered it? I’ll tell you what: Absolutely NOTHING!
If we had federal judges with any balls he would have whoever did it charged with contemp of court and thrown in the slammer with no bail. Somebody said wipe it clean and somebody did it.
Jeapardy:
Q) IRS wipes the hard drives.
A) What happens when the penalty is worse than the crime.
What a POS....!!
What an oxygen pirate!!
Never have liked that guy....he's freaking useless...!!!
Strongly Worded Letter Watch
Commie bastards.
The IRS is a criminal enterprise now.
Cruz is the only presidential candidate I am aware of who is calling for shutting it down.
Once again the lawlessness of the regime results in severe reppercussions....another strongly worded letter.
Seriously, who’s going to go to jail over it?
Nobody.
We should be surrounding their buildings and daring them to come out.
F U B O !
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