Oversight: IRS 'scared' to give up Lois Lerner emails | The Daily Caller

Oversight: IRS 'scared' to give up Lois Lerner emails | The Daily Caller:



Key members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform expressed outrage at revelations made in newly released emails showing ex-IRS official Lois Lerner coordinating with the Department of Justice on prosecuting nonprofit groups.

One committee member said the emails prove why the IRS is “scared to give up the rest of Lois Lerner’s emails.”



IRS commissioner John Koskinen was recently threatened with contempt for stonewalling the committee’s investigation. Koskinen claimed in a hearing that it could take years to provide the documents requested by Oversight.

Lerner was in contact with DOJ about prosecuting tax-exempt groups

Former head of the IRS tax-exempt division Lois Lerner communicated
with the Justice Department about the possibility of criminally
prosecuting certain tax-exempt groups, new documents reveal.


According to the conservative government accountability group
Judicial Watch, email exchanges between Lerner and Nikole C. Flax, the
Chief of Staff to then-Acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller, reveal
there were discussions about possible prosecution of tax-exempt groups
that were believed to have “lied” about political activities.

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