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Lois Lerner is the former IRS official at the center of a controversy over how the agency treated conservative political groups.
Lerner, a former Commack resident, died in her sleep at home in Las Vegas on July, 24, 2021.

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WASHINGTON D.C. (FOX19) - The Internal Revenue Service says an official at the center of the agency's tea party scandal is retiring.

Lois Lerner headed the IRS division that handles applications for tax-exempt status when she was placed on paid leave in May. While she was in charge, the agency acknowledged that agents improperly targeted tea party groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status from 2010 to 2012.

Lerner first disclosed the targeting at a law conference in May, when she was asked a planted question about IRS treatment of political groups. Less than two weeks later, she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, citing her constitutional right not to incriminate herself.

Republicans in Congress have repeatedly called for her to be fired.

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These 5 Horrible Bureaucrats Beat the Clock and Kept Their Pensions

The firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe days before his retirement was a rare case of justice.

Both the Justice Department Inspector General and the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility found that “McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor—including under oath—on multiple occasions.” Even one Democratic politician conceded that McCabe’s firing “may have been justified.”

But in the federal bureaucracy, very few people who deserve to be fired actually are.

Firing government employees is an onerous process. It requires investigations, counseling sessions, appeals, union arbitrations, and court hearings, all of which can take years. Managers are more likely to simply look the other way than go through the firing process.

Even for the most egregious offense, the minimum time it takes to complete the process is 270 days. As a result, many disreputable federal employees are able to beat the clock and keep their pensions.

Here are a few

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Lois Lerner

American attorney (born 1950)

Lois Gail Lerner (born October 12, 1950) is an American attorney and former United States federal civil service employee. Lerner became director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 2005, and subsequently became the central figure in the 2013 IRS targeting controversy in the targeting of politically aligned groups, either denying them tax-exempt status outright or delaying that status until they could no longer take effective part in the 2012 election. On May 10, 2013, in a conference call with reporters, Lerner apologized that Tea Party groups and other groups had been targeted for audits of their applications for tax-exemption. Both conservative and liberal groups were scrutinized.^[1] Only three groups—all branches of the Democratic group Emerge America—had tax exemptions revoked.^[2] Lerner resigned over the controversy. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation, completed in 2015, found "substantial evidence of mismana