{"id":4113,"date":"2017-09-21T20:31:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T11:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=4113"},"modified":"2017-09-21T20:31:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T11:31:29","slug":"who-wants-lerner-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/who-wants-lerner-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Wants Lerner In Jail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4114\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LOISLERNER-300x254.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LOISLERNER-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LOISLERNER-150x127.png 150w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LOISLERNER-177x150.png 177w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LOISLERNER.png 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>American citizens throw the red flag &#8230; the IRS is now under further review<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Attention! Paging Attorney General Jeff Sessions! Please pick up the white phone in the lobby! America is on the line.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the DOJ\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/349846-gop-lawmakers-furious-after-doj-declines-to-prosecute-lois-lerner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced that they have declined to prosecute disgraced IRS official Lois Lerner.<\/a>\u00a0Lerner, a government employee became infamous for invoking a Fifth Amendment claim before Congress by refusing to testify. Congress could have obtained an order from a federal judge that would have compelled Lerner to testify before the Congressional Committee. Nothing happened other than some sort of negotiated agreement with Lerner\u2019s attorney, which allowed her to testify in a private deposition, which her attorney was also able to get completely sealed and redacted.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to this week. A class-action lawsuit has been filed by Eddie Greim, a lawyer representing conservative groups who were directly harmed by this weaponized IRS. And he has in hand documents which provide the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/your-watchdog\/2017\/09\/18\/new-details-emerge-tea-party-suit-against-irs\/676532001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evidence<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cthey had the intent and they indeed treated a set of groups differently based on their ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Included in this evidence, are the non-redacted (Lerner\u2019s testimony is still sealed and redacted?!) depositions of IRS employees who were given explicit instructions by Lerner:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p-text\">But the filings state that instead of stopping the practice, Lerner instructed staff that they were to continue the practice and provide even more scrutiny. That\u2019s while she ordered the names of the \u201cTea Party Cases\u201d be changed to \u201cadvocacy cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Lerner\u2019s testimony was redacted from the filings as it is under seal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">But others testified in depositions that Lerner ordered IRS agents to send requests for additional information from the affected groups following that 2011 meeting. That included requests for donor information, normally considered off-limits.<\/p>\n<p>Lerner \u201cwanted everyone to know that we are handling the cases as we should,\u201d testified Cindy Thomas, the top nonprofit official in Cincinnati at the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an outrage. So why are there only two GOP Reps who are furious? The entire GOP House should be screaming for prosecution or a Special Counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Or are their bigger fish to fry? The ones who gave Lerner her marching orders maybe?<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Sessions \u2026 do your job!<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"4113\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"4113\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4114\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LOISLERNER-300x254.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LOISLERNER-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LOISLERNER-150x127.png 150w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LOISLERNER-177x150.png 177w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/LOISLERNER.png 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>American citizens throw the red flag &#8230; the IRS is now under further review<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Attention! Paging Attorney General Jeff Sessions! Please pick up the white phone in the lobby! America is on the line.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the DOJ\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/349846-gop-lawmakers-furious-after-doj-declines-to-prosecute-lois-lerner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced that they have declined to prosecute disgraced IRS official Lois Lerner.<\/a>\u00a0Lerner, a government employee became infamous for invoking a Fifth Amendment claim before Congress by refusing to testify. Congress could have obtained an order from a federal judge that would have compelled Lerner to testify before the Congressional Committee. Nothing happened other than some sort of negotiated agreement with Lerner\u2019s attorney, which &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/who-wants-lerner-in-jail\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4115,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions\/4115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}