Senior Republicans on Capitol Hill are pressing U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to pursue criminal charges against former IRS nonprofits chief Lois Lerner.
Lerner, whose title was IRS Exempt Organizations Division Director, orchestrated an unprecedented crackdown on Tea Party and conservative groups and then attempted to scapegoat those nonprofits, blaming them for the harsh treatment they received at her instigation.
Reps. Peter J. Roskam, chairman of the Ways & Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, and Kevin Brady, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, wrote to Sessions this week urging him to have the Department of Justice review the evidence that Lerner violated federal law by targeting Americans based on their political beliefs. The Obama administration had the evidence but chose to do nothing, letting Lerner get away clean.