Emails: IRS Official Sought Audit of GOP Senator
Source: Associated Press
Emails: IRS Official Sought Audit of GOP Senator
WASHINGTON Jun 25, 2014, 4:40 PM ET
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press
Congressional investigators say they uncovered emails Wednesday showing that a former Internal Revenue Service official at the heart of the tea party investigation sought an audit involving a Republican senator in 2012.
The emails show former IRS official Lois Lerner mistakenly received an invitation to an event that was meant to go to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa. Grassley presumably received Lerner's invitation.
The event organizer apparently offered to pay for Grassley's wife to attend the event. In an email to another IRS official, Lerner suggests referring the matter for an audit, saying it might be inappropriate for the group to pay for his wife.
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It was unclear from the emails whether Lerner was suggesting that Grassley or the group be audited or both.
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