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Home Front: Politix
Lois Lerner Escapes Criminal Contempt Charges
2015-04-02
[Townhall] The Justice Department will not seek criminal contempt charges against former IRS official Lois Lerner, the central figure in a scandal that erupted over whether the tax agency improperly targeted conservative political groups.

Ronald Machen, the former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in a seven-page letter this week that he would not bring a criminal case to a grand jury over Lerner's refusal to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in March 2014. The House approved a criminal contempt resolution against Lerner in May 2014, and Machen's office has been reviewing the issue since then.

Lerner and other IRS officials, however, are still under investigation by the FBI for the tea party targeting matter -- which is a separate probe entirely.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  Her actions are a textbook example of contempt. I'm starting to think perhaps the Holder Justice Department is not on the up & up. /sarc
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-04-02 14:24  

#6  It is not coincidental that the Menendez/Lerner decisions are announced so close together. The message to any who are remotely sentient is" the tools of power will be used to punish enemies and protect our own!" The idea that justice and the rule of law are operative is now truly mere theater for the rubes.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2015-04-02 12:13  

#5  Lerner was doing Zero's dirty work. Mendez would not.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664    2015-04-02 10:57  

#4  I want to hear more about the Lerner emails that were mysteriously found in West Virginia. I don't think they have been gotten into them yet.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-04-02 08:09  

#3  Subsequent prosecutors are free to change their mind and file charges at some future time, are they not?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2015-04-02 07:04  

#2  And all opposition to government cowers because they are under onslaught from every direction as tax man, gay nazi, education institutions, and more foreigners arrive all at once.

A Crater.
Posted by: newc   2015-04-02 01:37  

#1  Because it's not a crime to be contemptuous of the , no impeachment, House?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-04-02 01:33  

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