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| Lois Lerner put on administrative leave by IRS |
| 2013-05-24 |
| Lois Lerner, the director of the tax-exempt organizations division at the Internal Revenue Service, has been placed on administrative leave, sources in Congress and the administration confirm. Federal workers are given pay and benefits when put on administrative leave. “My understanding is the new acting IRS commissioner asked for Ms. Lerner’s resignation, and she refused to resign,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in a statement. “The IRS owes it to taxpayers to resolve her situation quickly.” Acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel has selected Ken Corbin as the acting director, of the exempt organizations division. Corbin is currently the deputy director of the submission processing, wage and investment division. Lerner was the official who revealed during a May 10 American Bar Association conference in Washington that employees in the IRS’s tax-exempt unit in Cincinnati had improperly scrutinized applications from dozens of organizations. On Wednesday, she invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #8 More on True The vote WhereÂ’s the co-ordination coming from do you suppose? |
| Posted by: tipper 2013-05-24 19:34 |
| #7 she got served today with papers for the TrueTheVote lawsuit |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-05-24 14:46 |
| #6 concerned that she'd end up being found in a parking lot outside of D.C. Fort Marcy Park? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-05-24 13:43 |
| #5 Did she give enough to the zero to buy a Corzine pass? More likely concerned that she'd end up being found in a parking lot outside of D.C.. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-05-24 12:21 |
| #4 Did she give enough to the zero to buy a Corzine pass? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-05-24 10:51 |
| #3 That she pleaded the Fifth also makes it impossible for the IRS to fire her. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-05-24 10:46 |
| #2 Don't confuse this Lerner's admin leave measure with some sort of punishment. Admin leave allows Lerner to devote the maximum amount of time to coordinating her legal defense. Difficult to coordinate those....sensitive fone calls from the office. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-05-24 07:51 |
| #1 paid vacation |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-05-24 07:42 |