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| IRS, White House officials that shared confidential taxpayer info had 155 White House meetings |
| 2013-10-12 |
| [DAILYCALLER] Embattled IRS official Sarah Hall Ingram made 155 visits to the White House to meet with a top Obama White House official with whom she exchanged confidential taxpayer information over email. Of Ingram's 165 White House meetings with White House staff, a staggering 155 of them were hosted by deputy assistant to the president for health policy Jeanne Lambrew, according to a June Watchdog.Org analysis of White House visitor records. Ingram exchanged confidential taxpayer information with Lambrew and White House health policy advisor Ellen Montz, according to 2012 emails obtained by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. (RELATED: White House, IRS exchanged confidential taxpayer info) The White House recently took down visitor logs recording details of these meetings, citing the government shutdown. Ingram headed the scandal-plagued IRS office that oversaw tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012, when she left to take over the IRS office in charge of Obamacare implementation. Former IRS Exempt Organizations division director Lois Lerner, who apologized for improperly scrutinizing tax-exempt applications of conservative groups between 2010 and 2012, also received an email alongside Ingram, Lambrew and Montz that contained confidential information. In 2012, Ingram attempted to counsel the White House on a lawsuit from religious organizations opposing Obamacare's contraception mandate. The emails provided to Oversight Sherlocks by the IRS had numerous redactions with the signifier "6103." Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code forbids a federal employee from "disclos[ing] any return or return information obtained by him in any manner in connection with his service as such an officer or an employee." The "6103″ signifiers were repeatedly added to the emails in instances in which the officials were referring to the names of groups or organizations, according to a reading of the redacted emails. Federal employees who illegally disclose confidential taxpayer information could face five years in prison. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Shared? morelike Illegal malfeasance leak. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-10-12 19:47 |
| #9 Obviously the solution is to seal the records of White House visitors. Wate, wut? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-10-12 12:48 |
| #8 Too bad she couldn't play golf. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2013-10-12 12:23 |
| #7 Evidence tampering, obstruction of justice ? I mentioned this yesterday somewhere. Expecting the legal system to provide any recourse to the abuse of office is naive at best. The political/legal system is so corrupt from top to bottom that nothing will ever be done. See also the ACA "tax" decision in the USCt. I doubt that the problems are fixable. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-10-12 11:57 |
| #6 Don't suppose they'll soon be mainlining our confidential Healthcare data to the WH do you ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-10-12 10:13 |
| #5 The White House recently took down visitor logs recording details of these meetings, citing the government shutdown. Evidence tampering, obstruction of justice ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-10-12 09:54 |
| #4 That's practically once a week. I meet with my first-line supervisor less often than that. |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2013-10-12 07:10 |
| #3 6103 = The number of years behind bars SHI Tax Guru should get if these charges are true, and she is prosecuted for this alleged crime. |
| Posted by: Au Auric 2013-10-12 02:05 |
| #2 No, it wasn't... |
| Posted by: Raj 2013-10-12 00:40 |
| #1 Wasn't an accident now was it. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-10-12 00:32 |