IRS released confidential info on conservative groups to ProPublica

Posted on by ( 1 comment. )
        

Loading

ProPublica on Monday reported that the same IRS division that targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny during the 2012 election cycle provided the investigative-reporting organization with confidential applications for tax-exempt status.

That revelation contradicts previous statements from the agency and may represent a violation of federal guidelines. Lois G. Lerner, who heads the IRS sector that reviews tax-exemption applications, told a congressional oversight committee in April 2012 that IRS code prohibited the agency from providing information about groups that had not yet been approved.

Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) had asked Lerner in March 2012 to provide a list of all organizations that the IRS had subjected to special scrutiny.

More at WaPo

0 0 votes
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of
1 Comment
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

This is damning!
The founders of ProPublica made billions from the home mortgage debacle.
They got a financial assist from George Soros when they founded ProPublica…..not that they needed one.
In 2012 they gave $12 million to Dems in the MidTerm election.
They tried to get out in front of this scandal by admitting to a portion of their involvement, BUT they haven’t admitted to telling the IRS about dozens of Tea Party and Conservative groups they insisted be audited.
And who knows if all that data the IRS wanted on those groups was intended to be turned over to ProPublica?
So ProPublic has been both on the receiving and and the giving end of this IRS/Tea Party scandal.
No way it is merely a few bad eggs acting alone in Cinncinnati….as Obama wants people to believe.

The lawyers at PowerLine blog add this about Republican donors they personally know:

One of my friends had wrapped up an audit, and then, the following year, was identified as a major Republican donor in the New York Times. A week after the Times article appeared, he got a call from the IRS, saying they were going to audit him. He expressed surprise, telling the IRS agent that he had a letter from the agency to the effect that he should be fine for the next three years. Which was greeted with silence; he didn’t hear from the IRS again.
My other friend, also a significant Republican donor, was the subject of an audit that seemed patently unreasonable. In the course of it, the IRS agent explained apologetically that he was just following orders from Washington.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/05/irs-scandal-about-to-blow-wide-open.php

0
Reply