Judicial Watch received previously sealed
court documents, including depositions of IRS officials Lois Lerner, the
former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue
Service (IRS), and Holly Paz, her top aide and former IRS director of
Office of Rulings and Agreements, which show that they knew most Tea Party
organizations were legally entitled to tax-exempt status in the run up to
the Obama reelection in 2012.
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