Little-Acorn
Gold Member
One by one, the criminals and liars are being weeded out and revealed.
Taking the 5th is another common tactic used by criminals to delay and delay, withholding information from the cops for as long as possible, so that when it finally comes out people are already tired of it and not paying much attention.
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Top IRS official will invoke 5th Amendment - latimes.com
Top IRS official will invoke Fifth Amendment
By Richard Simon and Joseph Tanfani
May 21, 2013, 12:15 p.m.
WASHINGTON A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agencys improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups.
Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, wont answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening or why she didnt reveal it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor 3rd.
Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight committee Wednesday.
She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course, said a letter by Taylor to committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa, R-Calif. The letter, sent Monday, was obtained Tuesday by the Los Angeles Times.
Taylor, a criminal defense attorney from the Washington firm of Zuckerman Spaeder, said that the Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation, and that the House committee has asked Lerner to explain why she provided false or misleading information to the committee four times last year.
Since Lerner wont answer questions, Taylor asked that she be excused from appearing, saying that would have no purpose other than to embarrass or burden her. There was no immediate word whether the committee will grant her request.
According to an inspector generals report, Lerner found out in June 2011 that some staff in the nonprofits division in Cincinnati had used terms like Tea Party and Patriots to select some applications for additional screening of their political activities. She ordered changes.
But neither Lerner nor anyone else at the IRS told Congress, even after repeated queries from several committees, including House Oversight, about whether some groups had been singled out unfairly.
Taking the 5th is another common tactic used by criminals to delay and delay, withholding information from the cops for as long as possible, so that when it finally comes out people are already tired of it and not paying much attention.
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Top IRS official will invoke 5th Amendment - latimes.com
Top IRS official will invoke Fifth Amendment
By Richard Simon and Joseph Tanfani
May 21, 2013, 12:15 p.m.
WASHINGTON A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agencys improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups.
Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, wont answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening or why she didnt reveal it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor 3rd.
Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight committee Wednesday.
She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course, said a letter by Taylor to committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa, R-Calif. The letter, sent Monday, was obtained Tuesday by the Los Angeles Times.
Taylor, a criminal defense attorney from the Washington firm of Zuckerman Spaeder, said that the Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation, and that the House committee has asked Lerner to explain why she provided false or misleading information to the committee four times last year.
Since Lerner wont answer questions, Taylor asked that she be excused from appearing, saying that would have no purpose other than to embarrass or burden her. There was no immediate word whether the committee will grant her request.
According to an inspector generals report, Lerner found out in June 2011 that some staff in the nonprofits division in Cincinnati had used terms like Tea Party and Patriots to select some applications for additional screening of their political activities. She ordered changes.
But neither Lerner nor anyone else at the IRS told Congress, even after repeated queries from several committees, including House Oversight, about whether some groups had been singled out unfairly.
