The Justice Department won’t seek criminal contempt charges against Lois Lerner, the former IRS official at the center of a controversy over how the agency treated conservative political groups.
The U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia will not bring contempt charges to a grand jury over Lerner’s refusal to testify last year before a pair of House committees.
U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen announced the decision in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner dated Tuesday that was made public on Wednesday.
The House had referred the case to federal prosecutors after lawmakers voted last year to hold Lerner in contempt. Lerner directed the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. She disclosed in 2013 that agents had improperly singled out conservative groups’ applications for extra scrutiny.
(AP)
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Did anybody really think that Laurel and Hardy A.K.A. Obama and Holder would prosecute her? She would cut a deal for herself and spill the beans on that conniving egotistical narcissist sorry excuse for a president who put her up to it.
Seems logical. The Justice Department is controlled by Democrats, and from their perspective, perscuting the president’s opponents is good public policy, and is what Ms. Lerner was supposed to be doing. If the Tea Party are public enemies, of course they should be harassed, so how can harassment of them be a crime.