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Lois Lerner: My Life Will Be in Danger if Real Reason Why IRS Targeted Tea Party Goes Public

MOTE: Another pathetic liberal crybaby! She did the crime, she is lucky not to be doing time! If she went to jail she would not have to worry about "death threats"!This bitch cost taxpayers $3.5MILLION for a settlement!

Former IRS director Lois Lerner told a federal court last week that she and her family could face death threats and physical violence if her testimony of why tea party groups were targeted under her watch becomes public.

Lerner and her former deputy at the IRS, Holly Paz, filed court documents Thursday, saying their depositions given in a court case this year should remain sealed from the public forever, according to The Washington Times.

“Whenever Mss. Lerner and Paz have been in the media spotlight, they have faced death threats and harassment,” their attorneys said.

As previously reported by The Western Journal, the IRS settled two lawsuits in October alleging the agency illegally targeted conservative groups under the Obama administration.

One of the settlements stipulated the IRS issue a formal apology for illegally singling out conservative and tea party groups due to their political beliefs dating back to 2010.

The other settlement, a class-action lawsuit brought by the NorCal Tea Party with 428 members, includes a $3.5 million settlement, according to one of the plaintiffs.

Lerner reportedly claimed that she and her family, including “young children,” have been subjected to death threats since the targeting scandal broke in 2013.

“The voluminous record of harassment and physical threats to Mss. Lerner and Paz and their families during the pendency of this litigation provides a compelling reason to seal the materials,” their attorneys said.

Their attorneys pointed to statements made by Mark Meckler, a tea party activist whose organization helped drive the class-action lawsuit. Meckler once called IRS agents involved in the targeting scandal “criminal thugs.”

“These words matter. They have created a fertile environment where threats and harassment against Mss. Lerner and Paz have flourished,” their attorneys said.

Lerner and Paz previously argued in May for their testimony about how IRS employees managed tax-exempt applications from tea-party groups, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer.

“This documentation, as the court will see, makes very personal references and contains graphic, profane and disturbing language that would lead to unnecessary intrusion and embarrassment if made public,” their attorneys said.

“Public dissemination of their deposition testimony would put their lives in serious jeopardy,” they continued.

However, Meckler accused Lerner and Paz of deliberate deceit.

“Four years of harassing innocent American citizens for their political beliefs, and she’s scared of a guy in a cowboy hat talking to a bunch of little old ladies at a tea party event?” he said.

Meckler said Lerner is trying to hide her disposition from the public, “because she knows she is guilty as the day is long and she doesn’t want people to know what she actually did.”

“It’s hard to have any sympathy for the women. And frankly, I don’t believe she’s genuinely scared,” Meckler said.

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IRS Apology Rejected: Republican Lawmaker Wants Lois Lerner Prosecuted

A Republican congressman rejected the apology issued by the IRS last week for improperly targeting Tea Party and conservative nonprofit groups based on their political viewpoint.

Rep. Vern Buchanan of Florida, the chairman of the oversight committee responsible for the IRS, said the apology was too little, too late.
The Washington Examiner reported that Buchanan called on the Trump administration to revisit prosecuting former IRS Commissioner Lois Lerner, who was in charge of the agency during the scandal.

“Lerner betrayed the nation’s trust yet managed to avoid prosecution,” Buchanan said. “Heads should roll and people should be held accountable for this gross abuse of power.”

“An apology five years after the fact is not good enough,” he added.

In April, Republicans requested the Justice Department take a “fresh look” at the case against Lerner.

However, the DOJ decided in September not to reopen a criminal investigation into the matter.

“(T)he Department determined that reopening the criminal investigation would not be appropriate based on the available evidence,” Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote at the time in a letter to Rep. Kevin Brady, the Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

Brady said Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Department of Justice made a “terrible decision” by opting to not hold Lerner accountable.

Despite the Justice Department’s insistence that a criminal investigation would be inappropriate, the IRS on Thursday settled two lawsuits alleging the agency illegally targeted conservative groups under the Obama administration.

One of the settlements stipulated the IRS issue a formal apology for illegally targeting conservative and tea party groups due to their political beliefs dating back to 2013.

The Washington Times reported that the other settlement, a class-action lawsuit brought by the NorCal Tea Party with 428 members, includes a “generous” multi-million dollar payout.

In a statement Thursday, Sessions said the IRS had “no excuse” for its conduct.

“Hundreds of organizations were affected by these actions, and they deserve an apology from the IRS,” he said.

Sessions added that the illegal targeting of conservative groups that took place under the Obama administration’s watch “was wrong and should have never occurred.”

“It is improper for the IRS to single out groups for different treatment based on their names or ideological positions,” Sessions stated.

Court documents show the IRS issued a “sincere apology” for its conduct toward conservative groups.

Despite the two settlements, it appears the DOJ will not revisit the issue.

Brady has expressed his desire to introduce legislation to reorganize the IRS from the ground up. He said he would advance the reform passage after President Donald Trump’s tax reform package is passed.











https://www.westernjournalism.com/irs-apology-rejected-republican-lawmaker-wants-lois-lerner-prosecuted/