Christian Post - IRS Director Lois Lerner Invokes Fifth Amendment, Refuses to Testify Over Conservative Group Targeting

By Stoyan Zaimov, ChristianPost.com

Top Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official, Lois Lerner, has invoked the Fifth Amendment before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday, refusing to testify but simply saying that she had "not done anything wrong." Lerner, who leads the I.R.S.'s division on tax-exempt organizations, is the IRS official who first disclosed that the agency had targeted conservative groups.

On Wednesday morning she refused to answer hard-hitting questions related to the recent controversy saying, ''I have done nothing wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations and I have not provided false information to this or any other committee.''. . .

"The IRS scandal has reached a new phase. The Obama Administration unlawfully targeted conservative groups and has been caught," said American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow, who revealed that his law group is days away from filing one of the largest lawsuits it has ever produced.

The ACLJ said that it is ready to take this next step, as for the past 18 months it has represented 27 of the IRS-targeted groups from 17 different states. . . .

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