House Committee to File 3 Criminal Charges Against IRS Official Lois Lerner… And Contempt Charges
The House Ways and Means Committee will vote this week to formally ask the DOJ to pursue criminal charges against former IRS employee Lois Lerner. The House Oversight Committee will vote on Thursday to hold Lerner in contempt.
The House Ways and Means Committee will vote this week to formally ask the Justice Department to pursue criminal charges against former IRS employee Lois Lerner, an official at the center of Republican probes of the matter.
The committee will mark up a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday accusing Lerner of committing three crimes relating to the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups seeking tax exempt status, a Republican staffer said.
The controversy erupted in May when Lerner admitted the agency given extra scrutiny to tea party groups – an acknowledgement that has cost a handful of agency employees their jobs, including its commissioner, and prompted a series of congressional investigations.
This action is separate of plans from House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa to hold a contempt vote against the former exempt organizations division head on Thursday.
Lerner has become the focus of congressional efforts to investigate what happened at the IRS, with Republicans accusing her of sharing private taxpayer data and obsessing over the Citizens United Supreme Court case.
House Speaker John Boehner confirmed to Fox News’ Megyn Kelly Monday that lawmakers plan to press the Justice Department to consider a criminal case against ex-IRS official Lois Lerner for “misleading the Congress.”
Boehner also said if Lerner does not cooperate soon by providing information on the IRS targeting scandal, the House would hold her in contempt of Congress.
“Somebody at the IRS violated the law,” Boehner said on “The Kelly File.”
“Whether it was Lois Lerner or not, we’ll find out.”
Wild Thing’s comment…….
Do it!!! We need to see action taken on all of this instead of just talking about it.
Finally! Now I hope that the Repubs stick to their guns. They will be attacked by the MSM. However, a good hard corps investigation and trial could lead the way up the ladder to the chief Marxist muslim obama himself and potential impeachment. And nab Holder on criminal charges also.