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Fellow tea party organizers across this nation were getting the same types of letters and questionnaires. that was when we decided to seek legal counsel. on march 6th 2012 we retaped the counsel of the american center for law and justice and they represented us in this matter. two weeks later i received a letter from lois lerner dated march 16th, 2012, asking that i provide the previously requested information. four months later we received a letter dated july 9th 2012 stating that we had been approved to receive our tax exemption, this was 635 days after we applied. in conclusion we filled out a complete application, our organization fell within the boundaries of receiving a 501(c)(4) status, yet our application was singled out solely because we had tea party in our name. government agents made invasive and excessive demand for ....
Answer on 10 of our other clients which again violates not just irs policy but the law. gregg: of course. let me ask you a bit more about lois lerner. you did some digging. sure. gregg: she has said she learned about the targeting in the summer of 2011. and, then she claims, hey, in the summer of 2011 i put a stop to it. as i understand it you have a letter sent to one of your clients dated march 16th, 2012 and signed by lois lerner. what does it say? does it show that she is not telling the truth? this was interesting. so we have 15 of these letters between march and april of 2012. now march was key because that s when the acting commissioner of the irs, doug shulman testified to congress there was no targeting going on. you have the letters from lois lerner. we went back in the client files. we realized what she had done put a cover letter on the invasive questionnaires we had filed responses to saying hey, some of these ....
Rules. republicans say since she did make a statement, they should be able to question her. democrats say she has the right to take the fifth. she was acting on advice of counsel. i would have loved to have heard what she had to say. i think her insight, the information she has, might have been helpful to us in just learning all the facts, whatever they may be. again, in our country, we have something called the constitution. we have to adhere to that constitution. also bubbling up in this scandal, the american center for law and justice says lerner allowed the targeting to continue longer than she s claimed publicly. the aclj released a letter sent to a tea party client signed by lerner or march 16th, 2012 but lerner said she put a stop to ....
Broken any laws or irs rules. she said that before she pled the fifth and refused to answer questions. gregg: lerner has said she learned about the targeting in the summer of 2011 and she claims to have put a stop to it. aren t there documents that may undermine that claim. reporter: a letter in fact released my american center for law and justice says this is still going on in 2012 and that lerner knew about it. the letter sent to one of the tea party clients is dated march 16th, 2012 and is signed by lerner. llerler got up and taking lois lerner says they stopped it. and irs officials said they stopped it but he found they didn t. it wasn t handled that. but lois lerner was endorsing it ....
Very will helpful to us in learning all of the facts whatever they might be. but again, in our country, we have something called the constitution. republicans contend that since lerner made a statement insists she did nothing wrong before she invoked the fifth she should have to come back and answer the law makers questions. one of the things they may want to ask her about. lois lerner may not have stopped the targeting of conservative groups when she said she did. cording to a group by the american center of law and justice. it was going on in 2012 and lerner knew about it. the letter is dated march 16th, 2012, and signed by lerner. ....