The woman at the head of this proclaimed "I broke no laws" and the next take invoked the 5th. She is also about to head the IRS's ACA implementation division.
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The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation.
Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office.
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She had at least one meeting with Obama days prior to when the conservative leaning groups were overwhelmingly scrutinized more than those not critical of the current administration.
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Sarah Hall Ingram, also got more than $100,000 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012.
Bonuses as large as those awarded to Ingram typically require presidential approval, according to federal personnel regulations.
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Additionally, there were issues were applications sat for months without any action upon them whatsoever. Not that they were declined nor approved, just that they did nothing while others who were not critical were approved with little or no issues. Lastly, take into account the time frame within an electoral context. There is an atty who is now handling a few of these groups cases against the IRS and from some of what I heard, it looks pretty bad. We'll never know for sure though as thats not how the law works anymore.
This has gotten little attention from most of the media, unlike the AP or Fox journalists private email issues. Still, its very "on-the-edge" stuff which looks pretty bad at best and is blatantly illegal at worst - depending upon where your ideological leanings place you. Of course, without her testifying we'll probably never know.