Top I.R.S. Official Invokes the 5th Amendment in I.R.S. - TEA Party Scandal

Lois Lerner, the top I.R.S. official invokes the 5th Amendment in I.R.S. - TEA Party Scandal

She has since been placed on PAID administrative leave.  Two other top officials have already "resigned".

I.R.S. Apologizes to Tea Party Groups Over Audits of Applications for Tax Exemption

By JONATHAN WEISMAN - Published: May 10, 2013 

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service apologized to Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations on Friday for what it now says were overzealous audits of their applications for tax-exempt status.  

Lois Lerner, the director of the I.R.S. division that oversees tax-exempt groups, acknowledged that the agency had singled out nonprofit applicants with the terms “Tea Party” or “patriots” in their titles in an effort to respond to a surge in applications for tax-exempt status between 2010 and 2012. 

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