Despite Wrongdoing, Former IRS Exec Lois Lerner Likely To Walk Free

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Rep. Peter Roskam is now chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee whose jurisdiction includes oversight of the Internal Revenue Service, and hence of Lois Lerner's legacy.

 

He knows how interesting her career was before she, as head of the IRS exempt-organizations division, directed the suppression of conservative advocacy groups by delaying and denying them the tax-exempt status that was swiftly given to comparable liberal groups.

 

In 2013, Roskam, in a televised committee hearing, told the story of Al Salvi, who in 1996 was the Republicans' Senate candidate against then-congressman, now-Sen. Dick Durbin.

 

Democrats filed charges with the Federal Election Commission against Salvi's campaign, charges that threatened to dominate the campaign's final weeks.

 

Salvi telephoned the head of the FEC's Enforcement Division, who he says told him: "Promise me you will never run for office again, and we'll drop this case." So said Lerner.

 

After Salvi lost, FBI agents visited his elderly mother, demanding to know, concerning her $2,000 contribution to her son's campaign, where she got "that kind of money."

 

When a federal court held that the charges against Salvi were spurious, the FEC's losing lawyer was Lerner.