The Briefing Room
General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: Formerly Once-Ler on August 01, 2013, 06:54:07 am
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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/354801/e-mails-suggest-collusion-between-fec-irs-target-conservative-groups-eliana-johnson
Embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner and an attorney in the Federal Election Commission’s general counsel’s office appear to have twice colluded to influence the record before the FEC’s vote in the case of a conservative non-profit organization, according to e-mails unearthed by the House Ways and Means Committee and obtained exclusively by National Review Online. The correspondence suggests the discrimination of conservative groups extended beyond the IRS and into the FEC, where an attorney from the agency’s enforcement division in at least one case sought and received tax information about the status of a conservative group, the American Future Fund, before recommending that the commission prosecute it for violations of campaign-finance law. Lerner, the former head of the IRS’s exempt-organizations division, worked at the FEC from 1986 to 1995, and was known for aggressive investigation of conservative groups during her tenure there, too.
“Several months ago . . . I spoke with you about the American Future Fund, a 501(c)(4) organization that had submitted an exemption application the IRS [sic],” the FEC attorney wrote Lerner in February 2009. The FEC, which polices violations of campaign-finance laws, is not exempted under Rule 6103, which prohibits the IRS from sharing confidential taxpayer information, but the e-mail indicates Lerner may have provided that information nonetheless: “When we spoke last July, you had told us that the American Future Fund had not received an exemption letter from the IRS,” the FEC attorney wrote.
More at link.
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When Clinton needed a problem to go away, he'd put Ron Brown on a plane or send Vince Foster to jog in the park. If you see Lois Lerner in public...run.
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When Clinton needed a problem to go away, he'd put Ron Brown on a plane or send Vince Foster to jog in the park. If you see Lois Lerner in public...run.
Just don't jog!
:bigsilly:
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Did you see Greta last night? She had one of the GOP congressmen on who is working on the IRS scandal. She had a stack of info they had requested and received from the IRS where every single solitary page was 100% blacked out...
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Did you see Greta last night? She had one of the GOP congressmen on who is working on the IRS scandal. She had a stack of info they had requested and received from the IRS where every single solitary page was 100% blacked out...
I did not see that. Thanx for passing it on. Maybe I can find it on youtube.