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Federal Judge Threatens To Hold IRS Commissioner, DOJ Lawyers In Contempt Of Court Over Lerner
A federal judge has threatened to hold Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen and several Justice Department attorneys in contempt for defying his order that the government produce newly recovered Lois Lerner emails. The threat occurred today at a fiery court hearing in connection with Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the IRS.
Lerner, of course, is the former director of the IRS headquarters unit responsible for executing the scheme to subject conservative groups to vexatious investigations and other harassment when they sought tax-exempt status. The IRS and other executive branch officials had falsely claimed that her emails from the relevant time frame were “inadvertently” destroyed. The government now concedes that close to 1,800 Lerner emails have been preserved, but it continues to withhold them despite FOIA demands and court orders.
On July 1, 2015, federal district judge Emmet Sullivan directed the IRS to begin producing the emails on a rolling, weekly basis, as well as weekly status reports explaining whether new relevant documents had been discovered and, if so, when they would be disclosed.
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