House Panel Refers IRS’ “Teaparty Nemesis” Lois Lerner For Criminal Prosecution
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
04/09/2014
The woman at the center of the IRS-Tea-Party-Targeting debacle is back in the limelight once again as the House Ways and Means Committee voted 23-14 to formally ask the Justice Department to investigate the ex-IRS official. As Fox notes, this appears to be an escalation by the Republicans to confront Lerner over her role in the agency’s controversial practice of singling out conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status for extra scrutiny. On another front, a separate committee will vote Thursday on whether to hold her in contempt of Congress for twice refusing to testify on the scandal. Democrats called the move “unprecedented.” The question, of course, is just how more ‘da fifs’ can she plead.
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