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Holder orders probe of IRS
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered an investigation into Internal Revenue Service political targeting of some conservative groups, he announced Tuesday.
"The FBI is coordinating with the Justice Department to see if any laws were broken," he told reporters.
Even if none were, the actions "were certainly outrageous and unacceptable," he said.
The IRS has admitted that members of its Cincinnati office engaged in such activity. But documents suggest at least three other IRS offices did the same.
Letters provided to CNN show IRS officials in Washington and California contacted conservative groups to demand more information before approving the groups' requests for tax-exempt status.
The American Center for Law and Justice, a legal group representing numerous conservative organizations, provided CNN with four such letters: one each from IRS offices in Washington; Cincinnati; El Monte, California, and Laguna Niguel, California.
The words "patriots" or "tea party" figured in the names of each group that received the letter.
Read more: http://www.wmur.com/news/politics/irs-political-targeting-alleged-in-multiple-cities/-/9857748/20140970/-/r4b00bz/-/index.html#ixzz2TINGCmWC
"The FBI is coordinating with the Justice Department to see if any laws were broken," he told reporters.
Even if none were, the actions "were certainly outrageous and unacceptable," he said.
The IRS has admitted that members of its Cincinnati office engaged in such activity. But documents suggest at least three other IRS offices did the same.
Letters provided to CNN show IRS officials in Washington and California contacted conservative groups to demand more information before approving the groups' requests for tax-exempt status.
The American Center for Law and Justice, a legal group representing numerous conservative organizations, provided CNN with four such letters: one each from IRS offices in Washington; Cincinnati; El Monte, California, and Laguna Niguel, California.
The words "patriots" or "tea party" figured in the names of each group that received the letter.
Read more: http://www.wmur.com/news/politics/irs-political-targeting-alleged-in-multiple-cities/-/9857748/20140970/-/r4b00bz/-/index.html#ixzz2TINGCmWC
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Re: Holder orders probe of IRS
...they shouldn't have to look too far...:
Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS executive in charge of the tax exempt division in 2010 when it began targeting conservative Tea Party, evangelical and pro-Israel groups for harrassment, got more than $100,000 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012.
—the examiner
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