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| Emails Show Lois Lerner fed True the Vote Tax Info to Dem Elijah Cummings |
| 2014-04-15 |
| [Townhall} 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. ......or contacted the IRS regarding any other conservative group. I doubt True The Vote was their only target. "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. No doubt shared with DoJ and the White House. 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." This entire affair is long overdue for assignment of a Special Prosecutor and full LE investigation. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Raj, that would make a nice start. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-04-15 15:36 |
| #3 Every single IRS employee involved in this shit should be fired & stripped of their pensions. There's no other way to keep them honest. |
| Posted by: Raj 2014-04-15 09:03 |
| #2 Is a shit load more than a smidgen?? |
| Posted by: Bangkok Billy 2014-04-15 06:46 |
| #1 Cumming's anger at the recent Lerner congressional testimony may have been for good cause. His IRS back-channel antics had been discovered. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-04-15 04:17 |