{"id":1982,"date":"2013-05-17T14:25:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T14:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2013-05-17T14:25:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T14:25:20","slug":"irs-tax-exemptionobamacare-exec-got-103390-in-bonuses-did-obama-ok-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/05\/17\/irs-tax-exemptionobamacare-exec-got-103390-in-bonuses-did-obama-ok-them\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS tax exemption\/Obamacare exec got $103,390 in bonuses; Did Obama OK them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS executive in charge of the tax exempt division in 2010 when it began targeting conservative Tea Party, evangelical and pro-Israel groups for harassment, got more than $100,000 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, Ingram was promoted to serve as director of the tax agency\u2019s Obamacare program office, a position that put her in charge of the vast expansion of the IRS\u2019 regulatory power and staffing in connection with federal health care, ABC reported earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>Ingram received a $7,000 bonus in 2009, according to data obtained by The Washington Examiner from the IRS, then a $34,440 bonus in 2010, $35,400 in 2011 and $26,550 last year, for a total of $103,390. Her annual salary went from $172,500 to $177,000 during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>The 2010, 2011 and 2012 bonuses were awarded during the period when IRS harassment of the conservative groups was most intense. The newspaper obtained the data via a Freedom of Information Act request.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., described the Ingram awards as \u201cstunning, just stunning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bonuses as large as those awarded to Ingram typically require presidential approval, according to federal personnel regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Full article: <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/irs-tax-exemptionobamacare-exec-got-100390-in-bonuses\/article\/2529899\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/irs-tax-exemptionobamacare-exec-got-100390-in-bonuses\/article\/2529899\">http:\/\/washingtonexa \u2026 uses\/article\/2529899<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS executive in charge of the tax exempt division in 2010 when it began targeting conservative Tea Party, evangelical and pro-Israel groups for harassment, got more than $100,000 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012. More recently, Ingram was promoted to serve as director of the tax agency\u2019s Obamacare program office, a position that put her in charge of the vast expansion of the IRS\u2019 regulatory power and staffing in connection with federal health care, ABC reported earlier today. Ingram received a $7,000 bonus in 2009, according to data obtained by The Washington Examiner from the IRS, then a $34,440 bonus in 2010, $35,400 in 2011 and $26,550 last year, for a total of $103,390. Her annual salary went from $172,500 to $177,000 during the same period. The 2010, 2011 and 2012 bonuses were awarded during the period when IRS harassment of the conservative groups was most intense. The newspaper obtained the data via a Freedom of Information Act request. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., described the Ingram awards as \u201cstunning, just stunning.\u201d Bonuses as large as those awarded to Ingram typically require presidential approval, according to federal personnel regulations. Full article: http:\/\/washingtonexa \u2026 uses\/article\/2529899<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[926,1251],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-irs","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}