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2017-08-22 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Judge orders IRS to reveal who took part in Tea Party targeting

[FOXNEWS] A federal judge has ordered the Internal Revenue Service to release the names of specific employees involved in targeting Tea Party groups, after years of litigation over what conservatives have long called "chilling" behavior by one of the government’s "most feared" agencies.

Judge Reggie B. Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia also said the IRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
must provide information about which groups were targeted and why, along with a strategy to make sure such targeting doesn't happen again.

The IRS is involved in multiple lawsuits with conservative groups related to the Tea Party targeting scandal; this particular case involves True the Vote.

"We’re thrilled the judge has taken this step and it feels good to have it recognized that they need to be held to account," True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht told Fox News on Monday. "What happened to me was very personal--my name was thrown around the IRS, and the names of the people involved need to be known. What they did was criminal."

The targeting scandal drew much attention in 2013 when the IRS, headed at the time by Lois Lerner

...the former head of the IRS Exempt Unit. She is a past president of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws and a member of the Massachussetts bar. She was held in contempt of Congress for her role in the IRS targeting of regime political enemies and refusing to testify. The dog ate her computer's hard drive with all her emails on it...
, admitted it was applying extra scrutiny to conservative groups applying for nonprofit status.

"That was wrong," Lerner said at the time in the press. "That was absolutely incorrect, it was insensitive and it was inappropriate. ... The IRS would like to apologize for that."

But director of investigations and research at Judicial Watch Chris Farrell, whose organization is also involved in litigation with the IRS on this issue, told Fox News that the IRS owes litigants "real accountability."

"This was creepy, chilling stuff," Farrell told Fox News. "Judge Walton has accomplished more with one ruling than all of the rest of the federal government--all three branches--over the last six years."

Posted by Fred 2017-08-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 DOJ (Holder, Lynch) and the FBI began an investigation into this in May 2013 Mueller, (Comey). In October 2015, the DOJ announced it was closing the investigation and would not seek criminal charges.

Lois Lerner is ~~working for H & R Block--the busy season is around April~~ a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. The Justice Department, under Lynch, said they would not pursue criminal contempt charges against Lerner despite the House bringing contempt charges against her.

Move on, nothing to see here. "No reasonable prosecutor would bring this case to trial" (w/great sarc).

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-22 07:33|| 2017-08-22 07:33|| Front Page Top

#2 A well meaning Judge Reggie B. Walton. I hope he's accustomed to disappointment.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-22 08:31|| 2017-08-22 08:31|| Front Page Top

#3 "That was wrong," Lerner said at the time in the press. "That was absolutely incorrect, it was insensitive and it was inappropriate. ... The IRS would like to apologize for that."

I'd be a little more convinced of Ms. Lerner's sincerity if she'd been wearing an orange jump suit and handcuffs when she made that statement.

Please tell me how the Russians hacking the DNC email server could have done more to interfere with our democracy than the IRS did under the Obama administration.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-08-22 10:54|| 2017-08-22 10:54|| Front Page Top

#4 The last chance to clean out the IRS.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2017-08-22 11:38|| 2017-08-22 11:38|| Front Page Top

#5 To paraphrase Andrew Jackson, the judge has made his decision. Now let us see him enforce it.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2017-08-22 13:08|| 2017-08-22 13:08|| Front Page Top

#6 He holds the entire IRS in contempt and orders them jailed at a grand a day

Posted by Silentbrick 2017-08-22 13:25|| 2017-08-22 13:25|| Front Page Top

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