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Eugene

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Wed Jun 25, 2014, 05:38 PM Jun 2014

Emails: IRS Official Sought Audit of GOP Senator

Source: Associated Press

Emails: IRS Official Sought Audit of GOP Senator

WASHINGTON — Jun 25, 2014, 4:40 PM ET
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press

Congressional investigators say they uncovered emails Wednesday showing that a former Internal Revenue Service official at the heart of the tea party investigation sought an audit involving a Republican senator in 2012.

The emails show former IRS official Lois Lerner mistakenly received an invitation to an event that was meant to go to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa. Grassley presumably received Lerner's invitation.

The event organizer apparently offered to pay for Grassley's wife to attend the event. In an email to another IRS official, Lerner suggests referring the matter for an audit, saying it might be inappropriate for the group to pay for his wife.

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It was unclear from the emails whether Lerner was suggesting that Grassley or the group be audited — or both.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/emails-irs-official-sought-audit-gop-senator-24304646
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Emails: IRS Official Sought Audit of GOP Senator (Original Post) Eugene Jun 2014 OP
So now the GOP nutballs will continue the meme that right wingers should never be audited Lint Head Jun 2014 #1

Lint Head

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1. So now the GOP nutballs will continue the meme that right wingers should never be audited
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 05:43 PM
Jun 2014

and are apparently above the law.

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