IRS supervisor admits
personally handling dozens of tea party cases
Breitbart – Tony Lee – 6/16/2013
An IRS supervisor who
oversaw over 200 agents in the Cincinnati
office admitted that she personally reviewed applications from conservative and
Tea Party groups for tax-exempt status. Her statements contradict assertions by
other IRS officials that "rogue" agents were solely responsible for
the targeting.
The Associated Press reports that Holly
Paz "a top deputy in the division that handles applications for
tax-exempt status," told congressional investigators that she personally
reviewed "20 to 30 applications."
Paz is
a registered Democrat who donated $4,000 to the Obama campaign in 2008 and
is currently on administrative leave, according to her lawyer.
Paz seems to have confirmed Hofacre's objections,
telling investigators that "Tea Party" applications were forwarded to
her from Cincinnati ,
and she then sent those applications to legal experts in D.C. She also admitted
"dozens of tea party applications sat untouched for more than a year while
field agents waited for guidance from Washington
on how to handle them."
IRS data showed "dozens
of liberal groups received tax-exempt approval in the 27 months that Tea Party
groups sat in limbo, even though the liberal groups were engaging in similar
kids of activity."
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