WASHINGTON, April 7 (UPI) -- The House Oversight Committee will vote this week to hold former IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt after months of failed attempts to force her into answering questions about the so-called targeting scandal that slammed the tax agency last year.
Lerner, who appeared before the committee on May 22, 2013 and again last month, only to plead the Fifth Amendment over her involvement in an alleged effort by the IRS to focus on Republican groups in an attempt to limit their influence in the 2012 election.