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How IRS handles the dark money groups  

April 10, 2014

Documents released by a House committee do shed some light on the inner workings of the IRS\'s Exempt Organizations division and how it approached applications of social welfare non-profits, also known as dark money groups because they spend money on elections without reporting their donors

 

Kim Barker and Theodoric Meyer (ProPublica)

 

A GOP-led House committee voted Wednesday to seek criminal charges against former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner, who used to run the IRS division in charge of tax-exempt groups. In a party-line vote, the committee accused Lerner of unfairly targeting the applications of conservative groups and misleading the Treasury inspector general, which was auditing the IRS based on allegations of bias against conservative groups.

 

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