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Top IRS official will invoke Fifth Amendment
LA TIMES ^ | May 21, 2013 | By Richard Simon and Joseph Tanfani

Posted on 05/21/2013 12:40:53 PM PDT by 11th Commandment

Edited on 05/21/2013 12:48:43 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

WASHINGTON – A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups.

Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening – or why she didn’t reveal it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor 3rd.

Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight committee Wednesday.

DOCUMENT: The Inspector General’s report on the IRS

“She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course,” said a letter by Taylor to committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa, R-Calif. The letter, sent Monday, was obtained Tuesday by the Los Angeles Times.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: irs; loislerner; loislernerirsscandal; official; pleadfifthirsscandal; pleadthefifth; teaparty
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To: littleharbour

Can I plead the fifth on my tax return?


441 posted on 05/22/2013 5:09:45 AM PDT by Outraged At FLA
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To: RegulatorCountry

Found guilty by their taking the 5th. Context.


442 posted on 05/22/2013 6:52:51 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: djf

“You must be pretty damn smart to be able to tell me what I do or don’t understand.”

I just go by what you post, sweetheart.


443 posted on 05/22/2013 6:53:38 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: Usagi_yo
a prohibition against required self-incrimination...

She's guilty.

444 posted on 05/22/2013 6:54:01 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: william clark
Now she [Lerner] really sounds like the right person for the Obamacare job.

No, it is Sarah Hall Ingram that was moved to the Obamacare job.

445 posted on 05/22/2013 7:28:43 AM PDT by ELS
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To: penelopesire
the woman who Obama has promoted to handle all of Obamacare is taking the 5th and refusing to answer

That is Sarah Ingram, not Lois Lerner.

446 posted on 05/22/2013 7:55:02 AM PDT by ELS
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To: Norm Lenhart

” You are in DC? Should have my daughter stop by the next time she’s there and say hi ;)”

I’m in Arizona. I have relatives in Chevy Chase,and Rockville, MD....poor souls : )


447 posted on 05/22/2013 9:29:28 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: 11th Commandment
A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups.

Just like the mafia......

448 posted on 05/22/2013 9:56:43 AM PDT by IXNK (I am a royalist and Jesus Christ is my king, Isus Xristos Nikas!)
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