A new report claims the IRS illegally shared taxpayer information with the FBI

 Just when you thought that for all intents and purposes the IRS targeting scandal was dead and buried in the wake of Lois Lerner invoking her 5th amendment right under the Constitution comes a new report which claims the IRS might have illegally shared the personal information of taxpayers with the FBI.

  Here is more:

The Internal Revenue Service may have been caught violating federal tax law: In October 2010, the agency sent a database on 501(c)(4) social-welfare groups containing confidential taxpayer information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to documents obtained by a House panel.

The information was transmitted in advance of former IRS official Lois Lerner’s meeting the same month with Justice Department officials about the possibility of using campaign-finance laws to prosecute certain nonprofit groups. E-mails between Lerner and Richard Pilger, the director of the Justice Department’s election-crimes branch, obtained through a subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder, show Lerner asking about the format in which the FBI preferred the data to be sent.

  And, as you can see from the above quote, if this story is true Lois Lerner was involved in this potentially illegal activity. Darrell Issa had this to say about this new revelation:

“This revelation that the IRS sent 1.1 million pages of nonprofit tax-return data — including confidential taxpayer information — to the FBI confirms suspicions that the IRS worked with the Justice Department to facilitate the potential investigation of nonprofit groups engaged in lawful political speech,” 

  But of course there isn’t even a smidgen of corruption here…..right?