Sunday, June 21, 2015
The IRS Scandal, Day 773
Fox, The IRS Mystery Man Calling the Shots:
When it comes to the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service, the media has focused its attention on Lois Lerner, who oversaw the tax agency’s Exempt Organizations Unit. But they may want to pay more attention to William Wilkins, the IRS chief counsel, whose office, according to sources, had unprecedented involvement in applications for tax exempt status and the special scrutiny of conservative applications.
Wilkins is one of just two of the tax agency’s roughly 90,000 employees who was appointed by the White House, according to reports. He came to the IRS in 2009 from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, where he had worked as a lobbyist since 1988. At WilmerHale, as the firm is now called, he was part of the tax practice group and as part of his responsibilities he advised nonprofit organizations on tax compliance. Prior to that, Wilkins served as staff counsel to the Democratic side of the Senate Finance Committee from 1981 to 1988.
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, who is suing the IRS to force the issuance of emails related to the tax exempt scandal, is highly critical of Wilkins. He says, “The counsel’s office was up to its neck in tea party targeting. I don’t understand why he is still there.” Wilkins also led the defense team of former Obama pastor Jeremiah Wright and Trinity United Church of Christ in 2008, when it faced an IRS probe regarding its tax exempt status.
- The IRS Scandal, Day 772 (June 20, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 771 (June 19, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 770 (June 18, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 769 (June 17, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 768 (June 16, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 767 (June 15, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 766 (June 14, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 765 (June 13, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 764 (June 12, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 763 (June 11, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 762 (June 10, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 761 (June 9, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 760 (June 8, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 759 (June 7, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 758 (June 6, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 757 (June 5, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 756 (June 4, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 755 (June 3, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 754 (June 2, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 753 (June 1, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 752 (May 31, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 751 (May 30, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 750 (May 29, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 749 (May 28, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 748 (May 27, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 747 (May 26, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 746 (May 25, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 745 (May 24, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 744 (May 23, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 743 (May 22, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 742 (May 21, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 741 (May 20, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 740 (May 19, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 739 (May 18, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 738 (May 17, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 737 (May 16, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 736 (May 15, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 735 (May 14, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 734 (May 13, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 733 (May 12, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 732 (May 11, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 731 (May 10, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Two Years And Counting (May 9, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 729 (May 8, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 728 (May 7, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 727 (May 6, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 726 (May 5, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 725 (May 4, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 724 (May 3, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 723 (May 2, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 722 (May 1, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 721 (Apr. 30, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 720 (Apr. 29, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 719 (Apr. 28, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 718 (Apr. 27, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 717 (Apr. 26, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 716 (Apr. 25, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 715 (Apr. 24, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 714 (Apr. 23, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 713 (Apr. 22, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 712 (Apr. 21, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 711 (Apr. 20, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 710 (Apr. 19, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 709 (Apr. 18, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 708 (Apr. 17, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 707 (Apr. 16, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 706 (Apr. 15, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 705 (Apr. 14, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 704 (Apr. 13, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 703 (Apr. 12, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 702 (Apr. 11, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 701 (Apr. 10, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 601-700 (Dec. 31, 2014 - April 9, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 501-600 (Sept. 22, 2014-Dec. 30, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 401-500 (June 14, 2014 - Sept. 21,2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 301-400 (Mar. 6, 2014 - June 13, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 201-300 (Nov. 26, 2013 - Mar. 5, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 101-200 (Aug. 18, 2013 - Nov. 25, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 1-100 (May 10, 2013 - Aug. 17, 2013)
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Comments
The IRS remains thick with highly partisan Democrats. The mystery to me is why the Republican party hasn't empaneled a select committee to investigate these high crimes and find out the relationship between the IRS and White House. It's almost as though the GOP leadership wants to bury this criminality. I wonder why?
Posted by: VoteOutIncumbents | Jun 21, 2015 9:20:31 AM
Mr. VOI: No select panel has been impaneled because the tax writing committees have seen all of the documents, in unredacted form. And there is no criminality to bury.
Posted by: Publius Novus | Jun 23, 2015 7:40:32 AM