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Attorney General Eric Holder and IRS officials reportedly coached black ministers on how to engage in political activity without jeopardizing their tax-exempt status during the 2012 election.
Holder, then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, and Peter Lorenzetti, a senior official in the IRS's exempt organizations division, participated in a May 2012 training session for ministers from the Conference of National Black Churches at the Capitol hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus.
Holder's speaking engagement at the event was "highly problematic," one legal expert said.
“[The CBC] had the IRS members there specifically to advise them on how far to go campaigning without violating their tax-exempt status,” George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley told the Daily Caller.
beezzer
I wasn't aware that special interest groups got their own Attorney General.
suz62
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What are we supposed to do? We have no control over our own government.
suz62
What are we supposed to do? We have no control over our own government.
“We’re going to, first of all, equip them with the information they need to know about what they can say and what they cannot say in the church that would violate their 501(c)(3) status with the IRS,” he said.
The IRS has come under fire for targeting conservative and tea party groups during the 2012 election cycle with improper reviews of their 501(c)(3) tax-exempt applications.
"The most important of those cabinet members would be the attorney general of the United States. To have the attorney general actively advising political allies of the president showed remarkably poor judgment on his part."
And no, Holder didn't get with white ministers or conservative ministers. Just the black ones.
“This event was open to all faiths, denominations, colors, creeds, and political affiliations,” he said in a statement.