Showing posts with label Lois Lerner. Show all posts
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

IRS Scandal Gets Worse

IRS Scandal Gets Worse

August 12, 2015 IRS Granted , Lois Lerner 1 Comments

Lois Lerner's IRS Granted Only One Conservative Group Non-Profit Status In Three Years


By Alexander Hendrie, Aug 11, 2015
America For Tax Reform

Lois Lerner’s political beliefs led to tea party and conservative groups receiving disparate and unfair treatment when applying for non-profit status, according to a detailed report compiled by the Senate Finance Committee.

Because of Lerner’s bias, only one conservative political advocacy organization was granted tax exempt status over a period of more than three years:

“Due to the circuitous process implemented by Lerner, only one conservative political advocacy organization was granted tax-exempt status between February 2009 and May 2012. Lerner’s bias against these applicants unquestionably led to these delays, and is particularly evident when compared to the IRS’s treatment of other applications, discussed immediately below.”

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Sunday, August 9, 2015

Lerner Called Conservatives "Crazies" And "Assholes"

Lerner Called Conservatives "Crazies" And "Assholes"

August 09, 2015 Lincoln Was Our Worst President Not Our Best , Lois Lerner 0 Comments

Lois Lerner: 'Lincoln Was Our Worst President Not Our Best'



By Bradford Richardson, Aug 07, 2015 The Hill

Lois Lerner, the central figure in the IRS targeting controversy, called Abraham Lincoln the country’s worst president in an email disclosed in a bipartisan Senate report, according to USA Today.

“Look my view is that Lincoln was our worst president not our best,” Lerner wrote in an email dated March 6, 2014.

Lerner, the former IRS director of Exempted Organizations, joked in one email that the 16th president should have just let the South secede, rather than fighting the Civil War.
“He should [have] let the south go,” Lerner wrote in response to a friend who disparaged Texas as a “pathetic” state. “We really do seem to have [two] different mind sets.”

The report also highlighted emails written by Lerner calling conservatives “crazies” and “a--holes.”

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Thursday, August 6, 2015

All The News That WE THINK Is Fit To Print

All The News That WE THINK Is Fit To Print

August 06, 2015 ABC , CBS 0 Comments

Lois Lerner Considered Targeting Bristol Palin--Nets Skip


By Geoffrey Dickens, Aug 06, 2015 NewsBusters

Bristol Palin was once in Lois Lerner’s sights, according to a newly released Senate report on the IRS executive’s e-mails. The daughter of liberal media hate object Sarah Palin got on Lerner's radar due to her work with Candie’s Foundation - a group that works to reduce teen pregnancy. 

In a newly released e-mail Lerner wrote: “Thoughts on the Bristol Palin issue? I’m asking because I don’t know whether to send to Exam as a referral.”   So far Lerner’s interest in the former Dancing with the Stars contestant has yet to be mentioned on the usually celebrity-obsessed Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) morning and evening shows.

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Saturday, August 1, 2015

Lerner's Emails Destroyed By IRS "Midnight Unit" in West Virginia

Lerner's Emails Destroyed By IRS "Midnight Unit" in West Virginia

August 01, 2015 Destroyed Emails , IRS official 0 Comments

We Now Know Where Lois Lerner's Emails And Backup Tapes Were Destroyed

By Katie Pavlich, July 31, 2015 Daily Mail


There have been dozens of questions surrounding the disappearance of emails belonging to former IRS official Lois Lerner, the woman at the center of the IRS targeting scandal. Some of Lerner's emails have been recovered, after IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said under oath they were lost forever. Thousands are still missing. But perhaps the most compelling questions that have been asked since the IRS targeting scandal broke in May 2013 are 1) Exactly where were Lerner's emails and backup tapes destroyed? 2) Who destroyed them?

Now, we have an answer. According to Americans for Tax Reform, Lerner's hard drive was destroyed by the IRS "Midnight Unit" in West Virginia: 

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Sunday, May 31, 2015

STILL In Legal Jeopardy?

May 31, 2015 Charles S. Clark , GovExec.com 0 Comments
House Republicans Demand Update On Lois Lerner Charges 

By Charles S. Clark, May 29, GovExec.com

Twenty-four Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday wrote to newly installed Attorney General Loretta Lynch seeking an update on prospects for criminal charges against former Internal Revenue Service Exempt Organizations chief Lois Lerner.

Led by Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the lawmakers cited the April 9, 2014, Ways and Means referral of Lerner to the Justice Department for prosecution on possible crimes that grew out of the two-year-old controversy over alleged political bias in IRS handling of nonprofits’ applications for tax-exempt status.

The new letter noted that an April 2015 Justice response from since-departed U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen sent to Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, addressed only the contempt of Congress referral the House made after Lerner invoked her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

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Monday, May 18, 2015

Let's Re-cap!

May 18, 2015 IRS Scandal , Lois Lerner 0 Comments
The 5 Biggest Lies, Myths, And Debunked Claims Of The IRS Scandal 

By Luke Wachob, May 18, 2015, TheFederalist.com

Remember the Lois Lerner emails the Internal Revenue Service said were lost? Thousands of them were just uncovered, and according to one investigator, they were “right where you would expect them to be.” It was just the latest iteration of a recurring trend in the IRS targeting scandal: investigators debunking attempts by the agency and its apologists to excuse, downplay, or cover up IRS’s abuse of conservative and tea-party groups.

Two years after it was first publicly exposed, here are the five biggest lies, myths, and debunked claims about the IRS scandal.

1. There Is ‘Absolutely No Targeting’ Program

Amid media reports in 2012 that the IRS was investigating dozens of tea-party organizations and demanding to know their political beliefs, twelve Republican senators sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman expressing concern with “excessive” IRS inquiries and seeking assurance that groups of all leanings received fair treatment. One week later, Shulman promised Congress, “There’s absolutely no targeting.”

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration exploded this claim in May of 2013 with a report titled, “Inappropriate Criteria Were Used to Identify Tax-Exempt Applications for Review.” The report concluded that the IRS chose groups for review “based upon their names or policy positions instead of indications of potential political campaign intervention.” It also determined that targeting began as early as March 2010, more than two years before Shulman insisted to Congress that no such program existed.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Now, why would she do THAT?

January 21, 2015 HNGN , IRS 0 Comments
Lois Lerner Begged Supervisor To Refrain From Visiting IRS Office Ahead Of 2012 Presidential Race

Rida Ahmed, Jan. 19, 2015, HNGN

"Please don't ask them about closures, pipelines, wait time for full development cases, or the c4 application letter ... can we put this off please?" Lerner said in an April 4, 2012 email shortly after Grant informed her about a planned visit to the office, according to Townhall.com.

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Friday, January 16, 2015

No bias, of course!

January 16, 2015 IRS , Lois Lerner 0 Comments
IRS Keeps Albuquerque Tea Party In Limbo 5 Years After Tax-exempt Status Application

Stephen Dinan, Jan. 12, 2015, Washington Times

“If the IRS, with its massive staff, read only 1/2 of a page daily of all the paperwork we have had to send them, they could have read it all three years ago,” Rick Harbaugh, secretary of the board of the Albuquerque group, said in an email describing his group’s five-year battle with the tax agency.

Worse yet, he said, they still don’t know why they were targeted in the first place, and every explanation from the IRS — that the targeting was by low-level employees in Ohio, for example — has been wrong.

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If this were GWBush...!

January 16, 2015 Barack Obama , Email 0 Comments
Docs: Ahead Of 2012 Presidential Election Lois Lerner Begged Supervisor Not to Visit IRS Office

Katie Pavlich, Jan. 14, 2015, Townhall

“These new documents, withheld for years contrary to law, suggest that a top IRS official may have obstructed investigations into the IRS scandal. Even Lois Lerner objected to her boss’s travel to the infamous Cincinnati IRS office, falsely accused by Barack Obama as being solely responsible for the abuse of the First Amendment rights of his critics,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “These documents also show the IRS knew early on that it was abusing its authority and innocent Americans through burdensome information requests and improper collection of the names of donors to groups that threatened Obama’s reelection. This IRS scandal is just getting started. Obama’s cover up of his administration’s suppression of his political opposition continues to unravel.”

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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

AND?

November 25, 2014 Email , IRS 0 Comments
30,000 Missing Emails From IRS' Lerner Recovered

Susan Ferrechio, Nov. 22, 2014, Washington Examiner

The IRS, in a statement provided to the Examiner, said the agency and IRS Commissioner John Koskinen is fully cooperating with the investigation.

"As Commissioner Koskinen has stated, the IRS welcomes TIGTA’s independent review and expert forensic analysis." The IRS statement said. "Commissioner Koskinen has said for some time he would be pleased if additional Lois Lerner emails from this time frame could be found."

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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

New Hampshire game changer?!

November 04, 2014 Daily Caller , IRS 0 Comments
BOMBSHELL MEMO: Jeanne Shaheen Conspired With WH Insider On IRS Targeting Scandal

Patrick Howley, Nov. 3, 2014, Daily Caller

Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen was principally involved in a plot with Lois Lerner and President Barack Obama’s political appointee at the IRS to lead a program of harassment against conservative nonprofit groups during the 2012 election, according to letters exclusively obtained by The Daily Caller.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) did not want to publicly release 2012 correspondences exchanged between the IRS and Jeanne Shaheen at her personal Washington office: the agency delayed releasing the information to a major conservative super PAC multiple times, even threatening to see the super PAC in court, according to emails.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Forgotten already?

October 29, 2014 Bernie Becker , IRS 0 Comments
GOP Offers Refresher On IRS Controversy
Bernie Becker, Oct. 27, 2014, TheHill.com

The House GOP video traces the IRS’s treatment of Tea Party groups back to 2010, when President Obama criticized the Supreme Court’sCitizens United decision, to the agency’s acknowledgement more than four months ago that it couldn’t find all of former IRS official Lois Lerner’s emails. The video also criticizes the IRS’s efforts to craft new regulations governing the 501(c)(4) groups involved in the controversy.

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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Cruz: Congress Should Impeach AG--If He Takes No Action On IRS Targeting Scandal --It's the boss, not Holder

April 12, 2014 Bill Clinton , Breitbart.com 0 Comments

Tony Lee, Apr. 10, 2014, Breitbart.com 

On the day the House Oversight Committee held Lois Lerner in contempt, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Congress should impeach Attorney General Eric Holder if he does not indict those like Lerner for their roles in the IRS's targeting of conservative groups.


In a Thursday appearance on Sean Hannity's radio program, Cruz said Holder should be impeached for "defying Congress and the rule of law." He said Holder's actions were not in the spirit of the Department of Justice, which Cruz said has "a bipartisan tradition of resisting partisan pressure and upholding the rule of law." Cruz cited examples of Holder's predecessors (Janet Reno and Elliot Richardson, respectively) from Bill Clinton's and Richard Nixon's administrations. 

Cruz said he was "very pleased" that Lerner was held in contempt by the House Committee but noted that the Justice Department has not indicted one person eight months after the inspector general concluded that the IRS had wrongfully targeted conservative groups. He blistered the Obama administration for appointing a Democrat who was a bundler for Obama's campaign to head the IRS investigation, and he said that would be akin to John Mitchell investigating Richard Nixon. 
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

BREAKING: Emails Show Lois Lerner Fed 'True The Vote' Tax Information To Democrat Elijah Cummings

April 09, 2014 Darrell Issa , Elijah Cummings 1 Comments
Source:  Salon.com
By Katie Pavlich, Apr. 9, 2014, Twonhall.com

New IRS emails released by the House Oversight Committee show staff working for Democratic Ranking Member Elijah Cummings communicated with the IRS multiple times between 2012 and 2013 about voter fraud prevention group True the Vote. True the Vote was targeted by the IRS after applying for tax exempt status more than two years ago. Further, information shows the IRS and Cummings' staff asked for nearly identical information from True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht about her organization, indicating coordination and improper sharing of confidential taxpayer information.

Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa, along with five Subcommittee Chairmen are demanding Cummings provide an explanation for the staff inquiries to the IRS about True the Vote and for his denial that his staff ever contacted the IRS about the group.
“Although you have previously denied that your staff made inquiries to the IRS about conservative organization True the Vote that may have led to additional agency scrutiny, communication records between your staff and IRS officials – which you did not disclose to Majority Members or staff – indicates otherwise,” the letter to Cummings states. “As the Committee is scheduled to consider a resolution holding Ms. Lerner, a participant in responding to your communications that you failed to disclose, in contempt of Congress, you have an obligation to fully explain your staff’s undisclosed contacts with the IRS.”


The first contact between the IRS and Cummings' staffers about True the Vote happened in August 2012. In January 2013, staff asked for more information from the IRS about the group. Former head of tax exempt groups at the IRS Lois Lerner went out of her way to try and get information to Cummings' office.The information Cummings received was not shared with Majority Members on the Committee.

On January 28, three days after staffers requested more information, Lerner wrote an email to her deputy Holly Paz, who has since been put on administrative leave, asking, “Did we find anything?” Paz responded immediately by saying information had not been found yet, to which Lerner replied, “Thanks, check tomorrow please.”

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