Hundreds of conservative groups that were unfairly targeted by Obama’s IRS have been awarded $3.5 million settlement by a U.S. District judge who agreed they had been illegally targeted by the former administration for political reasons.
U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett ruled that the IRS, quite possibly the most feared agency in the federal government, was misused by the Obama administration to unfairly target citizens for holding peaceful political views.
The groundbreaking settlement proves Barack Obama was lying through his teeth when he told former Fox host Bill O’Reilly that there was “not even a smidgen of corruption” in the targeting of conservatives by his IRS.
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Unsurprisingly, mainstream media has ordered a complete blackout of this story and has gone into damage control mode to protect Barack Obama’s supposedly “scandal-free” presidency.
Judge Michael Barrett set a July 10 hearing in Cincinnati on making the settlement final, and scheduled deadlines for claims and objections.
The Justice Department had announced last year that the case had been settled, pending approval of terms.
The lead plaintiff was the California-based Norcal Tea Party Patriots. The case swelled into a class-action suit by hundreds of groups. The court will decide how much each gets after legal costs.
AP reports: The 2013 lawsuit during the Barack Obama administration was over the treatment of conservative groups who said they were singled out for extra IRS scrutiny on tax-exempt status applications.
Watch Barack Obama lie through his teeth while telling former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly that there was “not even a smidgen of corruption” in the targeting of conservatives by his IRS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUtDFDU4kMk
“These are groups of law-abiding citizens who should have never had their First Amendment rights infringed upon by the IRS,” Jenny Beth Martin, president of the Tea Party Patriots umbrella group, said Wednesday. “These are groups that want the government to be accountable.”
The Justice Department declined comment.
Republican President Donald Trump’s Justice Department also settled a second lawsuit with an apology from the IRS for the intensive scrutiny of the groups, which argued their constitutional rights were violated when they were singled out based on their political views.
The case hounded Obama’s Democratic administration, with many Republicans disappointed there wasn’t stronger action taken in the scandal.
Republicans were outraged in 2013 when the IRS admitted the targeting, in part by zeroing in on groups with words such as “tea party” or “patriot” in their names. Many had their applications delayed for months and years. Some were asked improper questions about their donors and even their religious practices, an inspector general’s report found.
The Obama Justice Department announced in 2015 that no one at the IRS would be prosecuted. It said investigators found mismanagement, but no evidence that the tax agency had targeted a political group based on its viewpoints or had obstructed justice.
Some Republicans were disappointed when Trump’s Justice Department wouldn’t reopen the case against Lois Lerner, who had led the IRS office that processes applications for tax-exempt status.
Baxter Dmitry
Email: baxter@thepeoplesvoice.tv
The IRS is a branch of IMF still isn’t it?
Unless this money comes out of Lois Lerner’s pension, and not our taxes, justice was not done and this will not be prevented from happening again with a different administration.
the criminal lying obama just keeps on hitting us below the belt. thank God he is out.
now they need to expose the health departments politicization and the tortures and murders they’ve committed with legal impunity for decades too.And dont pretend for one second that they are totally cognizant of their culpability for their criminality and hypocrisy.
arent What a difference two letters can make isnt it so Dr?