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Treasury officials told of IRS probe in JuneWASHINGTON – Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal Revenue Service, a Treasury inspector general said Friday, disclosing that Obama administration officials knew there was a probe during the heat of the presidential campaign. |
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Ousted IRS chief Steve Miller (right) and J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, are sworn in Friday on Capitol Hill, in Washington, prior to testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings. |
