In 2010, various conservative and Tea Party groups realized they had been waiting longer than usual to be verified for tax-exempt status by the IRS. The scandal broke wide open in May 2013, but the Obama administration denied any ideological discrimination, saying instead that the delays were due to "mismanagement, poor judgment, and institutional inertia."
On Thursday morning, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) settled two cases in the IRS targeting scandal. In the class-action lawsuit involving 428 conservative plaintiffs, the IRS agreed to pay $3.5 million, Citizens for Self-Governance President Mark Meckler told PJ Media. He insisted that justice had not been done, however.
"There's no apology for violating these plaintiffs' First Amendment rights, for dragging these plaintiffs through years of litigation, for the millions of dollars that had to be spent to get to this point," Meckler insisted.
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