Boehner on IRS: ‘Who’s going to jail over this scandal?’

Boehner on IRS: ‘Who’s going to jail over this scandal?

House Speaker [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] said Wednesday that it’ll take more than firings to clear up the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] scandal — it’ll take someone ending up serving jail time.
“My
question is, who’s going to jail over this scandal?” the Ohio
Republican said at a press conference with fellow House Republican
leaders Wednesday morning.
An internal audit released Tuesday said the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] wrongly targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status — something agency officials acknowledged late last week.
The
agency has said it used “inappropriate” criteria for figuring out which
tax-exempt groups it would give extra scrutiny to, but has denied it
acted on political motives.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], though, said tax laws appear to have been broken.
“Someone
made a conscious decision to harass and to hold up these requests for
tax-exempt status,” he said. “I think we need to know who they are and
whether they violated the law. Clearly, someone violated the law.”


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