IRS rehires corrupt employees

Good day all. This story came out over the weekend. The Internal Revenue Service, which has not been covering itself with glory for the last few decades, has decided that employees who were fired for things like not paying their taxes can be rehired.

The IRS announced that 141 former employees were being welcomed back to the bosom of the agency and that all sins were being forgiven. Here are the details from Fox News:

Hundreds of former Internal Revenue Service employees who had a history of misconduct and poor performance on the job were rehired by the tax agency, including some who had committed fraud or falsified documents.

Gee, if it had been one of us common peons, we would be on our way to jail, our families thrown naked into the streets and every dime we had seized by the IRS. It must be nice being one of the “Special People.”

The IRS hired more than 7,000 former employees between January 2010 and September 2013. Of the 824 who returned to the agency despite their checkered work history, nearly one-fifth may have already run into new performance or conduct problems by the time of the inspector general’s review, according to a statistical analysis.

So what did all these people of high moral fiber do to get canned in the first place?

Prior problems ranged from minor infractions to major violations. Some had been faulted for committing fraud, accessing taxpayers’ information without authorization, falsifying official documents, and “workplace disruption.” Others were reprimanded for abusing employee leave time during their previous stints at the IRS.

Do you know who this reminds me of? Lois Lerner. I wonder if she will be getting her job back as well? She certainly meets the criteria. Crooked as the day is long.

Thatisall

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