You can only take the 5th to keep from incriminating yourself. Sounds like Lois Lerner may be guilty of a crime...
WASHINGTON
– A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will
invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a
House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of
conservative nonprofit groups.
Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the
IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew about the improper
screening – or why she didn’t reveal it to Congress, according to a
letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor 3rd.
Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight committee Wednesday.
“She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation but
under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course,” said
a letter by Taylor to committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa, R-Calif. The
letter, sent Monday, was obtained Tuesday by the Los Angeles Times.
Taylor, a criminal defense attorney from the Washington firm
of Zuckerman Spaeder, said that the Department of Justice has launched a
criminal investigation, and that the House committee has asked Lerner
to explain why she provided “false or misleading information” to the
committee four times last year.
1 comment:
Examples must be made. Prison time must be handed out, not simple firings.
After that, we need a simplified tax system that people can actually understand, like a flat tax. That would obviate about 90% of IRS employees.
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