IRS officials have denied, then admitted and apologized for the agency’s treatment of conservative and Tea Party groups in seeking tax-exempt status. The activities may have helped the president’s re-election campaign, creating a scandal for Barack Obama.
Here are eight facts among the many that occurred during and after the controversy.
1. Lois Lerner, who stepped down as head of the exempt organization division for the IRS in 2013, denied she had been involved in targeting conservative groups that sought non-profit status. However, she took her Fifth Amendment rights during a Congressional hearing. It was later learned through an inspector general’s report on the scandal that she had been aware of the targeting since 2011.
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Here are eight facts among the many that occurred during and after the controversy.
1. Lois Lerner, who stepped down as head of the exempt organization division for the IRS in 2013, denied she had been involved in targeting conservative groups that sought non-profit status. However, she took her Fifth Amendment rights during a Congressional hearing. It was later learned through an inspector general’s report on the scandal that she had been aware of the targeting since 2011.
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