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U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said Friday he wants to know whatever became of Lois Lerner's computer hard drive. IRS officials say Lerner's computer crashed in 2011, destroying an untold number of emails.
At the time, Lerner headed the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. She has since retired.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has told Congress that Lerner's hard drive was recycled and presumably destroyed. If that's the case, Walton said he wants a sworn affidavit saying so by the end of next week.
Walton also wants information about the IRS inspector general's investigation into the lost emails.
Walton spoke at a hearing Friday in a lawsuit by a conservative group against the IRS. True the Vote, which says it advocates for the integrity of elections, sued the IRS over delays in its application for tax-exempt status.
Walton's order came a day after another federal judge ordered the IRS to explain under oath how it lost the emails. U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, who issued his order on Thursday, gave the tax agency a month to submit the explanation in writing.
http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2014/07/11/second-federal-judge-wants-info-on-lost-irs-emails
Second federal judge orders IRS to provide information about lost emails in tea party probe
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER,
Associated Press
July 11, 2014 | 3:48 p.m. EDT
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