The admission came in an open-records lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative public interest law firm that has sued to get a look at emails Ms. Lerner sent during the targeting.
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The IRS confirmed in a court filing late Monday that Lerner had used multiple private email addresses to conduct official business during her time with the agency, according to the Washington Times.
It turns out that Lois Lerner – the former IRS official who used the agency to target conservative non-profits – might have quite a bit in common with Hillary Clinton.
That revelation prompts this question: why would the director of the Exempt Organizations Unit use an alias – a secret, personal email account while at the IRS?… Then, in March 2014, as many as 24,000 emails were lost when 422 backup tapes were “magnetically erased”, months after the IRS was told to preserve documents, as HNGN reported. But copies of some emails were later turned over to U.S. House investigators. Fitton argued that the IRS and Department of Justice have actually known about the email account for some time but have avoided disclosing key facts about it.
The federal judge presiding over Judicial Watch’s lawsuit threatened to hold the IRS commissioner, John Koskinen, in contempt of court after the agency didn’t follow through on production of documents.
Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch’s president, seized on the chance to accuse the IRS of covering for Lerner.
In the process of preparing this status report and for the August 24, 2015, release of Lerner communications, the undersigned attorneys learned that, in addition to emails to or from an email account denominated “Lois G. Lerner” or “Lois Home”, some emails responsive to Judicial Watch’s request may have been sent to or received from a personal email account denominated “Toby Miles”.
Just as Jackson was probably hiding something, it’s reasonable to think Lerner was doing the same when she used the name “Toby Miles” in a private account.
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Monday, Day 837 of the IRS scandal, according to the Tax Prof blog, brought some interesting information.
