Two officials in the Internal Revenue Service’s Cincinnati office said that officials in Washington helped direct the targeting of conservative and tea party groups that started in 2010, the Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday.
The pair of Cincinnati officials made the comments to Congressional investigators, according to transcripts that were reviewed by the Journal.
One such official, Elizabeth Hofacre, told investigators that she “had no autonomy or no authority to act on” applications from conservative or tea party groups without input from one of the agency’s lawyers in Washington. The other, Gary Muthert, said that he was told by a local manager in Cincinnati that “Washington, D.C. wanted some cases.”
Read the Journal’s report here.
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Read the Journal’s report here.
