Posted on 09/08/2017 12:50:02 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian
The Justice Department says it will not prosecute former IRS executive Lois Lerner for targeting conservative groups during the 2010 and 2012 elections.
In a letter to top Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee, Assistant Attorney General Kevin Brady said that after a careful review of the case, DOJ will not pursue charges against Lerner, who oversaw the IRS division that reviewed tax exempt organizations.
“After this process, the Department determined that reopening the investigation would not be appropriate based on the available evidence,” Boyd wrote Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Illinois Rep. Peter Roskam, the chairman of the subcommittee on tax policy.
In April, Brady and Roskam asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to review the Lerner case and to consider whether she should be charged with a crime.
Lerner was accused of improperly targeting tea party affiliated groups by denying or stonewalling their applications for tax-exempt status.
Lerner, who has since retired from the IRS, pleaded the Fifth in two separate congressional hearings — one in 2013 and another in 2014. In 2014, the Ways and Means Committee referred Lerner to the Obama Justice Department for prosecution. Republicans on the panel accused her of obstructing justice and misleading Congress. The Obama DOJ declined prosecution in 2015.
Brady and Roskam blasted the DOJ’s latest decision.
“This is a terrible decision,” Brady said in a statement. “It sends the message that the same legal, ethical, and Constitutional standards we all live by do not apply to Washington political appointees — who will now have the green light to target Americans for their political beliefs and mislead investigators without ever being held accountable for their lawlessness.”
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Charge her ! Don’t flake out! No quarter
It’s time for these Obama era creeps to face the music .
You want to drain the swamp? Start with Lerner !
Why have laws on the books?
Once again the Feds tell us that ‘laws are for thee, not for me’.
Is it open season on wrongdoing in the country. Does this mean we all get at least one “Get Out of Jail Free” card? Don’t waste yours. Make it count.
So they can persecute peons like you and I.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Damn it. We had such high hopes.
Why have laws?
Simple...to keep you and me in line.
Nooo!
Same reasoning will be used with Clinton.
F’ing BS.
Trump has yet to get full control of those in the Justice Dept.....Patience folks....there will come a time!
I guess they are trying to out do the founders fathers for which they have great distain?
The laws are for little people.
OK, so apparently criminal Democrat public servants (including DWS, Hillary, Abedin, Rice, etc.) will get the same anything goes treatment that they did under Obama, Holder, Lynch, and Comey.
They’re busy trying to railroad the Bundy’s.
Can you say....banana republic?
I'm getting a headache from all this winning!
They would never get a conviction. What jury would not have at least one liberal who would vote against conviction?
What the HELL is going on!?
Seems to me the Republican gene is flowing through the Trump Administration. That gene is the Republican gene of “they might not like me if I do what is right, and legally advisable.”
I’m sick of all this crap, and I know I don’t stand alone as over half the country voted the same as me to kill that effing gene.
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Damn it. We had such high hopes.”
Not very good for morale Jeff. Thanks a rot.
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