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Criminal charges against the conservative organizations and stop them from engaging in political operations. the irs sent over 6103 information, private tax information, about various groups and not information that was public record but individual filings and information only the irs would poses. hands it over to the department of justice and is urging criminal charges against the groups. a lot were not granted tax exempt status. some had been but sharing that information is a violation of law. >> the agency says it was a small number of individuals who were exposed. is that a defense? >> it ...

Sometimes inadvertenally received information that should have been redacted. >> it is required by law they are redacted. there is a reason there is a provision of the internal revenue code, 6103, that says you can not give this to government agencies. the irs was in this position of being the protagonize of engaging the department of justice to try to get criminal charges filled against these groups with no evidence of wrongdoing in the process. >> what can you do now? >> we have the motions pending with the court. but we are going to check to see if our client's information was in the docume...

Accessed and coincidentally, that's when the irs made a computer error that posted an erroneous tax lien that went all over the media. there's a lot of suspicious circumstances. but right now, there are three active investigations from very powerful bodies. you've got the treasury inspector general, the house ways and means committee and the senate judiciary committee, bipartisan support. so that shows you that there's something very serious going on. but they're misusing the rule 6103 which is supposed to protect the privacy of taxpayers, like our records, but they're using it to protect the ...

Amending our lawsuit for the third time because as this information comes out, now our cases a civil case. as these case, information, comes out we're amending the complaint to specify now more on what is called 6103 or unauthorized disclosures. bill: 6103 forbids an irs employee disclosing return information in any manner, as an employee. what is the punishment for that, jay, if proven? >> well, there is both civil aspect of it and a criminal aspect of it. felony under the code itself. that would be a job for the department of justice. they would have to do that. remember there is an ongoing ...

Judy garland. a top irs official whether she should go to jail. sarah hall ingram accused of exchanging confidential taxpayer information with a senior white house official. this is all came up at a congressional hearing just last week. >> just look at that email real closely. you see where all the black print is? where it is all blacked out. there is number written on those blacked out areas. what is the number written there? can you say for the number is? >> for the release of the document -- >> 6103. >> 6103. so someone at the irs decided this was confidential taxpayer information and whe...