Washington – IRS Replaces Official Who Oversaw Targeting

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Lois Lerner, head of the IRS unit that decides whether to grant tax-exempt status to groups, listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny the IRS gave to Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. Lerner later invoked her constitutional right to not answer questions and was dismissed by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif.    (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Washington – A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner has been replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups.

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Danny Werfel, the agency’s new acting commissioner, told IRS employees in an email Thursday that he has selected a new acting head of the division.

Ken Corbin will be the acting director of the agency’s exempt organizations division. Corbin is currently deputy director of submission processing in the wage and investment division.

A congressional aide said Lerner has been placed on administrative leave. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel matter.


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CherryKnish
CherryKnish
10 years ago

She was probably scared to implicate the real culprits & government mobsters.

10 years ago

This woman should retire quickly before she ends up in prison.

10 years ago

Administrative leave with pay? So now, she can continue to collect government wages and benefits (funded by taxpayers) for doing absolutely nothing! What an incredible idea. What sort of approach to the economy is that?

honestbroker
honestbroker
10 years ago

Much like some of the others implicated in this scandal , she will join the game of musical chairs and wind up heading some other agency

10 years ago

The last time the IRS was used for political purposes, was during the Nixon Administration. Every single IRS official and employee from top to bottom, wo broke the law, should be indicted, and prosecuted. The IRS comes after taxpayers, both civilly and criminally when it feels that the government has been cheated. Now, it is payback time!

leahle
leahle
10 years ago

There is so much misinformation about the IRS matter. Here are the facts:
The law states that organizations that are exclusively devoted to social welfare can claim tax exemptions and can keep the names of contributors confidential. In 1959, the IRS issued a regulation that changed “exclusively” to “primarily.” This was not a legal change ( a regulation cannot change a law). Once the IRS did this, they were required to investigate an organization to determine whether its activities were primarily for social welfare. With the Citizens United ruling, many thousands of supposedly social welfare groups claimed this status. Most were conservative, some were liberal. These groups engage in political activity (Karl Rove’s group for example). The IRS, which did had 200 staffers to handle the 70,000 post-Citizens United applications, implemented some poorly-conceived screening rules (e.g. “Tea Party” in the name). The result was that NONE of the Tea Party groups were denied this status (liberal groups were also investigated, some denied status). The real scandal is that the IRS had no right to change the law. All such groups should be denied.