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The infamous Lois Lerner emails!

Lois Lerner was the former Director of the Exempt Organizations Division at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and her emails became a major controversy in 2013. Here's a brief summary:

In May 2013, it was discovered that the IRS had been targeting conservative political groups, such as the Tea Party, for extra scrutiny and delays in their applications for tax-exempt status. The scandal led to widespread outrage and calls for investigations.

As part of the investigation, the IRS was ordered to produce Lois Lerner's emails, which were stored on a government server. However, it was later revealed that many of her emails had been lost or destroyed, sparking accusations of a cover-up.

The IRS claimed that Lerner's emails were stored on a server that crashed in 2011, and that many of her emails were deleted as part of a routine maintenance process. However, critics argued that this was a convenient excuse and that the IRS was trying to hide something.

In 2014, the IRS produced a batch of Lerner's emails, which were released to the public. However, many of the emails were heavily redacted, and it was unclear what had been deleted or destroyed.

The controversy surrounding Lois Lerner's emails led to several investigations, including a congressional investigation and a Justice Department investigation. In 2015, the IRS Inspector General released a report that concluded that the IRS had indeed lost or destroyed many of Lerner's emails, but that there was no evidence of intentional wrongdoing.

Despite the controversy, Lois Lerner resigned from the IRS in 2013, and the agency implemented new procedures for handling employee emails and records.