[EL] IRS Mess
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Tue Jan 14 05:32:22 PST 2014
And just to clarify a bit further, I believe Cleta was talking specifically
about internal agency investigations (though she can correct me), not the
on-going congressional investigations.
Reminds me of the 1990's IRS political targeting of audits scandal, when
the large coalition, led by the late, great Bill Lehrfeld, gathered in my
conference room at Williams & Jensen and, among other things, discovered that
we had all received questionnaires with essentially one question:
"Please send us all material the IRS has in its files about your
organization."
We blinked, looked at each other, and responded "Don't YOU have that in
your files?"
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In a message dated 1/14/2014 12:13:03 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
Mark.Scarberry at pepperdine.edu writes:
To put Cleta Mitchell's comment in context, I believe she had just said
(as quoted in the WSJ story) that none of the investigators had contacted any
of her clients, which led her to believe there was no real investigation.
I have no way of knowing whether the investigation is being done in a
thorough way, but perhaps a failure to talk to the alleged victims (her
clients) might lead a reasonable person to be skeptical.
Mark Scarberry
Pepperdine
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On Jan 13, 2014, at 8:25 PM, "Rick Hasen" <_rhasen at law.uci.edu_
(mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu) > wrote:
...
_Quote of the Day: IRS Mess Edition_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57911)
Posted on _January 13, 2014 5:25 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57911)
by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
“As far as I can tell, nobody has actually done an investigation. This has
been a big, bureaucratic, former-Soviet-Union-type investigation, which
means that there was no investigation….This is a deplorable abuse of the
public trust, but I am not surprised.”
–Cleta Mitchell, quoted in WSJ’s _Criminal Charges Not Expected in IRS
Probe_
(http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303819704579318983271821584) , which begins:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn’t plan to file criminal charges
over the Internal Revenue Service’s heightened scrutiny of conservative
groups, according to law-enforcement officials, a move that likely will only
intensify debate over the politically charged scandal.
The officials said investigators didn’t find the kind of political bias or
“enemy hunting” that would amount to a violation of criminal law.
Instead, what emerged during the probe was evidence of a mismanaged bureaucracy
enforcing rules about tax-exemption applications it didn’t understand,
according to the law-enforcement officials.
...
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