{"id":6653,"date":"2014-07-15T17:29:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T17:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=6653"},"modified":"2014-07-15T17:29:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T17:29:51","slug":"lois-lerners-former-fec-colleague-has-emails-go-missing-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/07\/15\/lois-lerners-former-fec-colleague-has-emails-go-missing-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Lois Lerner\u2019s Former FEC Colleague Has Emails Go Missing Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FEC\u2019s Office of Inspector General sought to conduct a criminal investigation into Sands\u2019 activities but were stymied when they found that the agency had recycled her computer hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore the OIG was unable to show that Ms. Sands\u2019 solicitations and political activity were done from an FEC computer,\u201d reads the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, the U.S. attorney\u2019s office for the District of Columbia declined criminal prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FEC\u2019s failure to retain Ms. Sands\u2019 hard drive prevented the FEC OIG from fully pursuing appropriate criminal sanctions for Ms. Sands\u2019 admitted violation of federal law,\u201d wrote Issa and Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike the IRS\u2019s destruction of Lois Lerner\u2019s hard drive, the FEC\u2019s recycling of Ms. Sands\u2019 hard drive may have also destroyed material responsive to Freedom of Information Act and congressional oversight requests,\u201d the letter continued.<\/p>\n<p>Lerner\u2019s computer hard drive crashed in the middle of 2011, right around the time that questions were being raised over whether the IRS\u2019s enforcement agency was targeting conservative non-profit groups while considering whether to grant them tax-exempt status.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry140715-212858\">Lois Lerner\u2019s Former FEC Colleague Has Emails Go Missing Too<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FEC\u2019s Office of Inspector General sought to conduct a criminal investigation into Sands\u2019 activities but were stymied when they found that the agency had recycled her computer hard drive. \u201cTherefore the OIG was unable to show that Ms. Sands\u2019 solicitations and political activity were done from an FEC computer,\u201d reads the letter. Because of this, the U.S. attorney\u2019s office for the District of Columbia declined criminal prosecution. \u201cThe FEC\u2019s failure to retain Ms. Sands\u2019 hard drive prevented the FEC OIG from fully pursuing appropriate criminal sanctions for Ms. Sands\u2019 admitted violation of federal law,\u201d wrote Issa and Jordan. \u201cLike the IRS\u2019s destruction of Lois Lerner\u2019s hard drive, the FEC\u2019s recycling of Ms. Sands\u2019 hard drive may have also destroyed material responsive to Freedom of Information Act and congressional oversight requests,\u201d the letter continued. Lerner\u2019s computer hard drive crashed in the middle of 2011, right around the time that questions were being raised over whether the IRS\u2019s enforcement agency was targeting conservative non-profit groups while considering whether to grant them tax-exempt status. via Lois Lerner\u2019s Former FEC Colleague Has Emails Go Missing Too<\/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":[689,926,1025,1495],"class_list":["post-6653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-fec","tag-irs","tag-lerner","tag-sands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653","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=6653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}