Justice Department Opens Criminal Inquiry Into I.R.S. Audits. EDITED

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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said on Tuesday that he had ordered the Justice Department and the F.B.I. to open an investigation into whether Internal Revenue Service officials broke any criminal laws by singling out conservative groups for special scrutiny.

The activities of I.R.S. officials are already the subject of an investigation by the agency’s inspector general. The results of that inquiry, which are expected in the next several days, are expected to detail how officials at the agency selected political groups for extra scrutiny about their tax status.

Speaking at a news conference called on Tuesday to discuss Medicare fraud, Mr. Holder said that he had ordered a second investigation to determine whether any criminal laws may have been broken by the officials at the tax collection agency.

The attorney general said there were “a variety of statutes within the I.R.S. code” that could be the basis of a criminal violation. He said officials conducting the investigation would also look at “other things in Title 18” of the United States Code. Title 18 is the overall criminal code for the federal government.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/us/politics/facing-trio-of-crises-white-house-dodges-questions.html?hp

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This is an INQUIRY into WHETHER any laws were broken.

[Marrah_G]

1. I hope to hell no one above the IRS people involved knew about this

[elleng]

2. So do I.

We don't even know what 'this' is.

[BlueDemKev]

8. Me, too!

If anyone in the White House knew about this, this will be very serious.

[SunSeeker]

3. WTF? Over this? And not Cheney?

[elleng]

4. We don't know over WHAT, Seeker.

[SunSeeker]

6. I get that. Where was the inquiry into whether Cheney did anything criminal?

We lost 4,000 in Iraq and 2,000 in Afghanistan over Bush and Cheney lies. None of these tea bagger groups even lost their tax exempt status. Hence, WTF?

[Douglas Carpenter]

5. Here is the Washington Post story on the matter

Attorney General says FBI, Justice Dept. to investigate IRS


The FBI is launching a criminal inquiry into allegations that IRS
officials targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status for
special scrutiny, Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday.

"The FBI is coordinating with the Justice Department to see if any
laws were broken in connection with those matters related to the IRS,"
Holder said. "We are examining the facts to see if there were criminal
violations."

The IRS on Friday disclosed that officials had selected groups with
the names "tea party" and "patriot" that had applied for tax exempt
status for additional review. The IRS said the actions were wrong and
apologized.

Read more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/14/holder-has-ordered-irs-investigation/

[bushisanidiot]

9. This is good. The republicans are likely to come out on the short end of the stick on this one.

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