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Friday, July 1, 2016

New docs show IRS's Lois Lerner broke the law

By Rick Moran

When Lois Lerner, the former IRS chief of the Exempt Organization unit and figure at the center of the targeting scandal, transferred 1.25 million IRS documents to the Justice Department in October of 2010, she almost certainly broke the law, according to new documents unearthed by the group Cause of Action in a FOIA suit. The documents contained tax returns and other private tax information from non-profit groups. The transfer was done in advance of a meeting between IRS and Justice Department officials to discuss prosecuting non-profits for illegal political activity. But federal law prohibits the transfer of tax returns to any agency without following set procedures. Lerner's transfer was thus highly illegal. NRO:.....Incredible.  Thousands of non-profit groups had their tax returns transferred illegally, while the IRS and Justice deliberately kept Congress in the dark.......Read more

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