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DOJ: No contempt charges for former IRS official Lois Lerner
Politico ^ | 04/01/2015 | By JOHN BRESNAHAN and RACHAEL BADE

Posted on 04/01/2015 1:26:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Justice Department will not seek criminal contempt charges against former IRS official Lois Lerner, the central figure in a scandal that erupted over whether the tax agency improperly targeted conservative political groups.

Ronald Machen, the former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in a seven-page letter this week that he would not bring a criminal case to a grand jury over Lerner’s refusal to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in March 2014. The House approved a criminal contempt resolution against Lerner in May 2014, and Machen’s office has been reviewing the issue since then.

Lerner and other IRS officials, however, are still under investigation by the FBI for the tea party targeting matter — which is a separate probe entirely.

Lerner cited her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself during congressional testimony on March 5, 2014, although then-Oversight Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said she had waived that right by giving an opening statement at a hearing 10 months earlier when she asserted her innocence. Issa wanted her charged by the Justice Department with criminal contempt of Congress for failing to answer questions about her role in the scandal.

Machen said the Oversight Committee “followed proper procedures” in telling Lerner that it had “rejected her claim of privilege and gave her an adequate opportunity to answer the committee’s questions.”

However, Machen said DOJ lawyers determined that Lerner “did not waive her Fifth Amendment right by making an opening statement on May 22, 2013, because she made only a general claims of innocence.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: 5thamendment; contempt; cultureofcorruption; doj; injusticedepartment; irs; irsscandals; loislerner; obamascandals; searchandfind; whatever
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Anybody surprised?
1 posted on 04/01/2015 1:26:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Lois could be tossing 3 year olds off the IRS building and the DOJ would give her a pass.

Chicago Street gangs would give her a pass too...


2 posted on 04/01/2015 1:28:29 PM PDT by GOPJ (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist. - Freeper RipSawyer)
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To: SeekAndFind

Me? No.


3 posted on 04/01/2015 1:29:01 PM PDT by YHAOS
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To: SeekAndFind

LOL

This is the FUNNIEST April Fool’s Day story yet!


4 posted on 04/01/2015 1:29:09 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I am shocked and chagrined, mortified and magnified. This is outrageous. It’s stupefying, slanderous, and salacious....


5 posted on 04/01/2015 1:29:52 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Psalm 73

” I am shocked and chagrined, mortified and magnified. This is outrageous. It’s stupefying, slanderous, and salacious....”

But how do you REALLY feel ?


6 posted on 04/01/2015 1:31:36 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: SeekAndFind

Anybody surprised?

...

Nope. Honor among thieves.


7 posted on 04/01/2015 1:31:55 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I am shocked! SHOCKED I TELL YOU!


8 posted on 04/01/2015 1:32:02 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: SeekAndFind

The Justice Department — there is no such thing.


9 posted on 04/01/2015 1:32:02 PM PDT by Gator113 (Cruz, Lee, and Sessions speak for me.... most anyone else is just noise.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Progressive Liberal Democrat Communist Party hierarchy protects their own and only their own, anyone on the outside is subject to gov’t wrath, those inside gain protection as well as immunity, it is much like a mafia style protection racket, the IRS (Lerner had no fear) being the main enforcer along with all other gov’t bureaucratic organizations.


10 posted on 04/01/2015 1:32:41 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: GOPJ

Well, as long as they were 3 yr old white conservative children.


11 posted on 04/01/2015 1:33:10 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SeekAndFind

There’s us, who are guilty of the littlest infractions, and then there’s Them, who are above all suspicion and guilt.

After all, didn’t God in Heaven anoint them to rule over us?


12 posted on 04/01/2015 1:33:19 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: SeekAndFind

We are their puppets and slaves ... media included!


13 posted on 04/01/2015 1:33:43 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Psalm 73

I am shocked and chagrined, mortified and magnified. This is outrageous. It’s stupefying, slanderous, and salacious....

14 posted on 04/01/2015 1:35:36 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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didn’t God in Heaven anoint them to rule over us? ah ... is it whom counts the votes?
15 posted on 04/01/2015 1:35:47 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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The Justice Obama Department
16 posted on 04/01/2015 1:36:29 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Ted Cruz 2016!)
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To: GOPJ

I am flabbergasted.

That it took this long for DOJ to dismiss charges.


17 posted on 04/01/2015 1:36:34 PM PDT by alloysteel (It isn't science, it's law. Rational thought does not apply.)
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To: SeekAndFind

18 posted on 04/01/2015 1:36:37 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Diogenesis

yep, ‘America’ a Stranger in our Arms ....?


19 posted on 04/01/2015 1:39:51 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: SeekAndFind

I would continue to drag her before Congress. I would do everything I could under the guise of a hearing to ruin her life and bankrupt her financially. I would make her take the 5th a hundred more times.


20 posted on 04/01/2015 1:43:34 PM PDT by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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