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DOJ Settles with Tea Party Groups on Lois Lerner IRS Scandal
Breitbart.com ^ | 26 Oct 2017 | Ian Mason

Posted on 10/26/2017 8:20:35 AM PDT by Rockitz

Four hundred sixty nine different plaintiffs in two class-action lawsuits over Obama-era IRS harassment settled with the Department of Justice Thursday, bringing to a close a dark chapter in the IRS’s history.

In 2010 and 2011, the IRS under Lois Lerner, particularly out of the Cincinnati field office, launched what many contended were politically motivated investigations and audits of “Tea Party” and other conservative groups. While no criminal prosecutions ever resulted, hundreds of victims assembled in class-action lawsuits against the federal government.

Attorney General Sessions appears to have largely acknowledged the plaintiffs’ claims. In a DOJ press release on the settlement, he said:

[I]t is now clear that during the last Administration, the IRS began using inappropriate criteria to screen applications for 501(c) status. These criteria included names such as “Tea Party,” “Patriots,” or “9/12” or policy positions concerning government spending or taxes, education of the public to “make America a better place to live,” or statements criticizing how the country was being run. It is also clear these criteria disproportionately impacted conservative groups.

As a result of these criteria, the IRS transferred hundreds of applications to a specifically designated group of IRS agents for additional levels of review, questioning and delay. In many instances, the IRS then requested highly sensitive information from applicants, such as donor information, that was not needed to make a determination of tax-exempt status.

In March of last year, a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit criticized the Obama DOJ for its handling of the case, writing, “In this lawsuit the IRS has only compounded the conduct that gave rise to it.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: bhoirs; doj; irs; lerner; loislerner; obama; officialoppression; teaparty; tyranny
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

In a just world, Lerner would be in jail.


61 posted on 10/26/2017 11:03:48 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: The_Media_never_lie

You said it.

If I were one of these groups, I’d rathher that the guilty parties do a long perp walk than the aggrieved groups getting ANY monetary settlement.

It would more than compensate.


62 posted on 10/26/2017 11:14:27 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is it that the only positive things to come out of LGBT organizations are their AIDS tests?)
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To: Rockitz
The terms of the settlement with the conservative groups is not yet clear.

Well, an apology is not enough. This was clearly an abuse of power and prosecutable.

63 posted on 10/26/2017 11:21:50 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Rockitz

Given the way this legal system shit usually goes down, FedGov swamp dwellers probably forced the acting classes to capitulate on prosecuting Lerner et. al. criminally as a stipulation in the settlement agreement.

They get some remuneration for their prior persecution.
The criminals walk with no further repercussions.

“Here’s a few million. Go away now.”


64 posted on 10/26/2017 11:28:31 AM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: Rockitz

Not enough. The actions were illegal, there should be a special prosecutor, indictments should be handed down, charges filed, trials held, convictions obtained, judgements and sentences made. And if it is possible to impeach a former president for high crimes and misdemeanors, and if the shoe fits, then that should be done as well.


65 posted on 10/26/2017 11:35:57 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: SES1066

Righteo.


66 posted on 10/26/2017 11:42:25 AM PDT by aspasia
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To: SES1066

“John Koskinen, REMAINS the head of the IRS.”

PDJT just announced his replacement today. I believe Nov. 12 is the end of his time at the IRS.


67 posted on 10/26/2017 11:51:43 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (A person's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
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To: SES1066

You were saying:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-irs-john-koskinen/?utm_content=88953f58279861c5c3d6b838967d376c&source=CI&utm_campaign=TPI_Afternoon_Newsletter_10_26_2017&utm_source=TPI-Newsletter-10-26-17-afternoon&utm_medium=email

Good call!


68 posted on 10/26/2017 11:59:12 AM PDT by dangus
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To: marktwain
They could have continued to take their suit to court.

We have no clue what the settlement was, could have been an apology, or several million dollars.

69 posted on 10/26/2017 12:13:46 PM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: itsahoot

We have no clue what the settlement was, could have been an apology, or several million dollars.


Exactly.

It could include retraining of all IRS auditors, new rules on political neutrality, Apologies by the agency.

Millions of dollars, easily.

We do not know.


70 posted on 10/26/2017 4:34:14 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: KC_Conspirator
And since she is not in prison, it is a reminder why the Second Amendment allows our REAL citizens to keep and bear arms IN ORDER TO PROTECT OURSELVES FROM A TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT...
71 posted on 10/26/2017 4:57:19 PM PDT by Stayfree (LIBERALISM & STUPIDITY ARE BOTH INCURABLE MENTAL DISEASES OFTEN FOUND TOGETHER!)
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To: Rockitz

The “IRS” didn’t do this.

People within the IRS did it.

Why aren’t they being held responsible?


72 posted on 10/26/2017 11:41:20 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Libtards wish anarchy and death for others, but exempt themselves.)
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To: Delta 21

Wrong.

Lerner is high enough up the ladder and was a willing, more than willing, participant in this most egregious crime.

Sure, get the person above if appropriate. But she needs to pay a heavy penalty for this.

Trying to defend her is a fool’s errand.


73 posted on 10/27/2017 8:30:46 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Rockitz

And that’s how Obongo get a second term...The IRS hamstrung all the groups forming to take on the whack nut in the White House.


74 posted on 10/27/2017 10:40:37 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: ForYourChildren

You nailed it with:

“DOJ Settles with Tea Party Groups on Lois Lerner IRS Scandal”

These Tea Party groups were trying to start up before the 2012 election.

Lois Lerner IRS was trying to throw an election by trying to keep these groups from forming, from assembling, and from distributing their information freedom of press.

Lois Lerner IRS and those around her should be thrown in jail for:
1) throwing the 2012 election
2) keeping groups from freedom of assembly
3) keeping groups from freedom of press


75 posted on 10/27/2017 1:44:21 PM PDT by Syncro (Facts is facts)
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To: Syncro

She violated their civil rights.


76 posted on 10/27/2017 1:46:37 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Along with every one of those higher up in the IRS

Bring them all down @POTUS

Indict, charge and prosecute to the fullest etc...


77 posted on 10/27/2017 1:59:49 PM PDT by Syncro (Facts is facts)
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