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Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) went on Fox Business with Stuart Varney on Thursday morning to discuss recent happenings in the House, regarding the former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service, reported Gateway Pundit.
Roskam told Stewart House Republicans are requesting that criminal charges be filed against Lois Lerner.
Rep. Roskam: “The Obama Administration was dismissive about the crimes that we believe that Lois Lerner committed. And those are strong words that I’m using but the House Ways and Means Committee voted out a criminal referral to the Department of Justice which was completely dismissed by the Department of Justice. President Obama was on television at one point, and in the midst of an investigation and he said ‘there is not a smidgen of wrong doing here.’ So look, we think that Lois Lerner did particularly two things wrong. Number one, that she denied people due process and equal protection of the law, based on their political philosophy. We’re convinced that there is overwhelming evidence to suggest that that’s true. And that’s a felony. Secondly, we suspect that she lied to the Inspector General of the Treasury Department. When they were investigating that very thing. What we want is the new Justice Department to take a fresh look at this while we are well within the statute of limitations and if they can, to move forward with the prosecution.“
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Gateway Pundit added that current IRS Commissioner John Koskinen is also coming under fire, as more than 30 lawmakers sent a letter to President Donald Trump last week calling him to step down from his post before the end of his term, Fox News reported.
The IRS Conservative Targeting Scandal involved:
- Hundreds of conservative groups were targeted
- At least 5 pro-Israel groups
- Constitutional groups
- Groups that criticized Obama administration
- At least two pro-life groups
- An 83 year-old Nazi concentration camp survivor
- A 180 year-old Baptist paper
- A Texas voting-rights group
- A Hollywood conservative group was targeted and harassed
- Conservative activists and businesses
- At least one conservative Hispanic group
- IRS continued to target groups even after the scandal was exposed
- 10% of Tea Party donors were audited by the IRS
- And… 100% of the 501(c)(4) Groups Audited by IRS Were Conservative
