We don’t know with certainty what Lois Lerner’s role is in the IRS scandal. However, let’s give credit to Ms. Lerner in exposing something that definitely is wrong with the IRS.
It turns out that Ms. Lerner was upset with an unnamed IRS employee who was paid $138,136 a year and was doing “nothing.” The Washington Examiner reported on this in an article on a letter written by House Ways & Means Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Charles Boustany (R-LA) to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. Here’s an excerpt of the Examiner’s article:
In a 2011 email recently uncovered by the committee, Lerner wrote to colleagues that she “learned than [an] employee who is assigned to a special project has spent most of the last year doing nothing and reporting to her manager on on timesheets that she has been working on the project full time.” The worker was paid $106,263-$138,136.
Lerner said that “We can’t do anything” about the worker, though some argued for termination, explained Boustany’s letter. Instead, the unnamed worker was given a lower performance rating.
While this will do nothing to help the IRS’s reputation, kudos to Ms. Lerner for trying to stop such activities. As for Congressman Boustany’s letter to Commissioner Koskinen, I’m not holding my breath for any results.
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