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Justice Dept.: No criminal charges for ex-IRS official

My Way News / Associated Press
Eric Tucker
10/23/2015

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WASHINGTON (AP) — No IRS official would face criminal charges arising from the political controversy over the processing of applications for tax-exempt status, the Justice Department announced Friday.

In a letter to members of Congress, the department said that while investigators had found "mismanagement, poor judgment and institutional inertia," there was no evidence of a crime.
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Conservatives Outraged at Lois Lerner Decision: 'Miscarriage of Justice'

Newsmax
Todd Beamon
10/23/2015

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Conservatives were outraged Friday that the Justice Department closed its two-year investigation into the IRS targeting scandal without charging former supervisor Lois Lerner or anyone else at the agency, with tea party activist Mark Meckler slamming the decision as "a whitewash and miscarriage of justice."

"Lois Lerner made an entire career out of attacking conservatives and Christians," said Meckler, president of Citizens for Self Governance. "There is a reason the majority of Americans fear their government, and Lerner is the poster child for that reason."

"She has been rewarded for abusing her government positions to attack her fellow citizens," he added. "And until the Department of Injustice once again becomes the Department of Justice, Americans will live in fear."

Meckler's organization, which is based in Austin, Texas, has a federal lawsuit pending against the IRS and the Obama administration in the targeting scandal.

Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote, the Houston group that also sued over the scandal, referenced such Obama administration debacles at the Fast and Furious gun-running scheme and the email probe over the 2012 Benghazi attacks.

"This is a lawless administration," she said. "The FBI closing their investigation is par for course in the Obama administration, where criminals walk free and honest Americans fear their government."
Jenny Beth Martin, CEO and co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, said that the decision marked "the latest evidence that the Justice Department, whether under Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch, has simply become the political hatchet-men for President Obama and his cronies throughout the administration."

"Clearly, we cannot rely on the Department of Justice to provide justice," she said.

In a letter to Congress, the Justice Department said that while investigators had found "mismanagement, poor judgment and institutional inertia" within the IRS, no proof existed that any employee had specifically targeted a political group based on its viewpoints or had obstructed justice.

"We found no evidence that any IRS official acted based on political, discriminatory, corrupt or other inappropriate motives that would support a criminal prosecution," Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik said in the letter.

Lerner, 65, headed the IRS department that screened groups seeking tax-exempt status. She had been the focus of three congressional investigations.

In May 2013, Lerner was placed on leave because of the scandal — retiring four months later. She denied wrongdoing, but was held in contempt of Congress after twice refusing to testify on the debacle.

The Internal Revenue Service began targeting the groups in 2010. It continued to just before the 2012 presidential election.

Among the other groups targeted by the IRS were Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, the nonprofit political organization advised by Republican strategist Karl Rove.
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