4 Responses to “Call every congressman: demand RICO complaint to be filed by the US Congress and Tea Party against DOJ, FEC, IRS, Eric Holder, Lois Lerner and others for obstruction of Justice and criminal conspiracy to deprive civil rights of Tea Party members and file bogus criminal charges against Tea Party members”

1. ELSIE GANZON
   April 17th, 2014 @ 4:26 am

   Thursday 17 April 2014

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   THEY SHOULD BE SUED for their actions, illegal activity and the COSTs to U.S. Citizens TAX PAYERS

   The fact is Lois Lerner DID decline ALL non profit applications that were known Republicans in fact CBS 60 Minutes did expose the story but wait there is so much more to this scam.

   crimes committed by Lois Lerner, the IRS official at … groups: singling out Crossroads GPS, Karl Rove’s nonprofit group that spent … by using her personal email account while conducting IRS business. …

2. ELSIE GANZON
   April 17th, 2014 @ 4:29 am

   Among the alleged crimes committed by Lois Lerner, the former IRS official at the heart of the tax agency’s targeting of conservative groups: singling out Crossroads GPS, Karl Rove’s nonprofit group that spent $165 million in the last election attacking Democrats and helping Republicans.

   That’s according to House Republicans pushing criminal charges against Lerner.

   The House Ways and Means Committee met in closed-door session Wednesday to discuss three specific violations Republicans believe she committed while running the IRS’s office that handles tax-exempt groups.

   One charge is that she generally blocked tax-exempt status for conservative groups. A second is that she impeded investigations into the matter, and the third is that she may have disclosed confidential taxpayer information by using her personal email account while conducting IRS business.

   But the only group specifically cited by the committee was Crossroads, which in 2012 was the so-called social welfare organization that spent the most on political activity.

   “Ms. Lerner took it upon herself … [to] direct both the Crossroads GPS’s audit and a proposed denial for tax-exempt status,” Chairman Dave Camp said during the closed-door session. “Ms. Lerner repeated these activities with other conservative groups but never left-leaning organizations which were also referred to the IRS.”

   At that moment, Camp was unaware that his microphone was still being carried live to news outlets.

   Rove, a short time later, confirmed Camp’s revelation.

   “She led an effort to deny a 501(c)4 tax-exempt status to Crossroads GPS, subverting the IRS’s own standards and procedures in order to harass a conservative group,” he said on Fox News. “Lois Lerner picked us out of the crowd as a conservative advocacy group.”

   Camp and committee Republicans voted in favor of asking Attorney General Eric Holder to pursue criminal charges and made the Crossroads discussion public by releasing the 14-page letter to Holder and dozens of pages of supporting documents.

   Lerner’s lawyer, William Taylor, said she has done nothing wrong. “This is just another attempt by Republicans to vilify Ms. Lerner for political gain,” he said in a statement, pointing out that Holder’s Justice Department is already conducting an investigation into the matter.

   Lerner first disclosed that the IRS had given extra scrutiny to Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status last May. She was forced to resign from the agency a short time later and has since been the subject of numerous congressional investigations.

   Tax-exempt status is important for Crossroads and other politically oriented 501(c)4 groups not because it allows them to avoid paying taxes — any political group that spends all that it raises will avoid income taxes — but because it lets the group keep its donors’ names secret. Some donors give money on the condition their names not be disclosed because they don’t want their businesses to lose customers with differing political views.

   Crossroads GPS, like other large tax-exempt groups, has been funded primarily by wealthy donors. An NPR analysis of its tax returns shows that $218 million of the $257 million the group has raised to date has come in donations of $1 million or more. One single donation in 2012 was $22.5 million, and another was $18 million.

   Tax-exempt groups are allowed to engage in some political activity, as long as it does not become their primary purpose. Crossroads GPS reported spending $71 million directly on political activity, out of the $180 million it reported raising in 2012. The group spent an additional $94 million on ads that attacked President Obama and Democratic congressional candidates but did not specifically mention the election.

   Crossroads GPS also donated $35 million to other nonprofit groups, including some that turned around and spent some of their money on political activity. The group, for instance, reported giving Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform $26.4 million — an amount that makes up the vast majority of the $31 million Americans for Tax Reform reported raising in 2012. Americans for Tax Reform that year reported spending $15.8 million on political activity.

   In all, groups that don’t disclose their donors spent more than a quarter-billion dollars on direct political activity in the 2012 elections, with the overwhelming majority of that money coming from conservative groups trying to defeat Democrats.

   Ways and Means Committee Democrats wanted to hold Tuesday’s hearing in public, but Camp insisted on a closed-door session because they would be mentioning the name of a specific taxpayer, and disclosing that in public is illegal.

   “It is a felony. Any release is a felony, and it’s not whether you intended to do it, so I’m being very cautious,” Camp said.

   Three more minutes went by before he realized the meeting was still being carried live and ordered a pause so the feed could be stopped.

3. Rod Riddle
   April 17th, 2014 @ 5:52 am

   Elsie, they should be more than sued. Hung from the gallows in a public square is more like it. Lerner was in direct communication with Democratic members of Congress on which Tea Party groups to put hit pieces out on. She was literally conspiring with Eric Holder & the DOJ on how they could file criminal charges on Conservative groups!!! This is way beyond the pale. There is indeed a special place in Hades for these evil pieces of scum!

4. js/js
   April 19th, 2014 @ 5:29 pm

   BTW, not only was she involved, but her husband, Michael Miles was involved as a former IRS Legal counsel. Total conflict of interest. Lois Lerner goes by the name also: Ms. Lois G. Miles.
   Check it out, no joke. She is a bigot and a
   criminal from way back at the FEC stint. She
   continued with this illegality at the IRS under
   Schulman. Schulman should also be indicted
   and called before the Issa Comtee. He is her
   co-conspirator, IMO.

   This is terrible wrongdoing by IRS. IMO.

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