The Justice Department has closed its two year investigation into the IRS, trying to determine if the agency improperly targeted the Tea Party and other conservative groups.
The conclusion – no charges against former IRS official Lois Lerner or anyone else at the IRS.
In a letter, Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik said that the investigation uncovered “substantial evidence of mismanagement, poor judgment and institutional inertia leading to the belief by many tax-exempt applicants that the IRS targeted them based on their political viewpoints. But poor management is not a crime.”
The IRS scandal began in May 2013 after Lerner answered a question at an American Bar Association event and apologized for the agency’s inappropriate scrutiny of certain groups seeking tax exempt status.
Lerner’s remark lit the fuse on a massive scandal, resulting in Congressional hearings accusing the IRS of discriminating against and targeting specific groups. Kadzik says that the Justice Department found no evidence to support a criminal prosecution.
Former House Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa, R-California, said “The Justice Department’s decision to close the IRS targeting investigation without a single charge or prosecution is a low point of accountability in an administration that is better known for punishing whistleblowers than the abuse and misconduct they expose.”
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