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Feds to pay ‘generous’ settlement to tea party groups for targeting
The government apologized Thursday for illegally targeting tea party groups
for intrusive scrutiny and agreed to settlements with hundreds of
organizations snared in the targeting, bringing to a close one of the more
embarrassing episodes of the Obama administration.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the IRS owed the groups an apology after
years of poor treatment and even longer refusal to concede bad behavior. He
placed blame on “the last administration,” saying the targeting that went
on under President Obama “was wrong and should never have occurred.”
One of the settlement agreements, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C.
, officially admits that the IRS singled out groups because of their
political beliefs, in defiance of the law. The other settlement, in a class-
action lawsuit in Ohio, includes a “generous” payout to more than 400
groups snared, according to a lawyer involved.
“There is no excuse for this conduct,” Mr. Sessions said in a statement.
“Hundreds of organizations were affected by these actions, and they deserve
an apology from the IRS.”
As of Thursday morning, however, the groups said they had yet to get such an
apology.
“A true reckoning is finally up to the agency itself. Until the IRS itself
steps forward to admit what really happened, we cannot have faith that the
same abuse won’t be repeated again,” said Edward Greim, the lawyer who
handled the class-action lawsuit for NorCal Tea Party Patriots and more than
400 other groups. |
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