Saturday, April 15, 2017

Lois Lerner demands secrecy, blames death threats over IRS tea party targeting

Via Billy

Lois Lerner listens during a hearing on the IRS's alleged targeting of tea party groups for additional scrutiny on Capitol Hill on May 22, 2013. (Associated Press)

Former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner told a federal court this week that she faces the possibility of death threats if her role in the tax agency’s tea party-targeting becomes public, and asked a judge to forever seal her upcoming deposition in a class-action lawsuit brought by hundreds of groups that were targeted.

Mr. Lerner and Holly Paz, another figure from the IRS tea party targeting, told the judge they’ve already faced “harassment and death threats” before, and said they fear another media firestorm if their version of events from the tea party targeting were to become public.

The two women said they are willing to testify, but said they could be putting “their lives in serious jeopardy.”

4 comments:

  1. Death threats against two girls that used the federal government against their opposition? I sense the presence of Jefferson's ghost!

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  2. No, no, Lerner. Your role should be made public, so that the public will know why you are going to spend the rest of your miserable life in prison.

    Bob

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