{"id":17225,"date":"2015-02-11T12:51:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=17225"},"modified":"2018-10-04T07:26:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T11:26:37","slug":"irs-rehires-corrupt-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=17225","title":{"rendered":"IRS rehires corrupt employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>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. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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 \u201cSpecial People.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>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\u2019s review, according to a statistical analysis. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/double-facepalm.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8876\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/double-facepalm-300x240.jpg?resize=300%2C240\" alt=\"double-facepalm\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/double-facepalm.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/double-facepalm.jpg?resize=150%2C120&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/double-facepalm.jpg?resize=400%2C320&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/double-facepalm.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So what did all these people of high moral fiber do to get canned in the first place?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Prior problems ranged from minor infractions to major violations. Some had been faulted for committing fraud, accessing taxpayers\u2019 information without authorization, falsifying official documents, and \u201cworkplace disruption.\u201d Others were reprimanded for abusing employee leave time during their previous stints at the IRS.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ISr-emails-3-copy.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15298\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ISr-emails-3-copy-300x211.jpg?resize=300%2C211\" alt=\"ISr-emails-3-copy\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ISr-emails-3-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C211&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ISr-emails-3-copy.jpg?resize=500%2C351&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ISr-emails-3-copy.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thatisall<\/p>\n<p><i><b>~The Angry Webmaster~<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[yasr_visitor_votes size=&#8221;medium&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. <a href=\"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=17225\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,71,8,115,219],"tags":[3,12,222,39,218,34,27],"class_list":["post-17225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-news-of-the-day","category-politics","category-stupidity-crime","category-the-good-idea-fairy","tag-crime","tag-freedom","tag-good-idea-fairy","tag-irs","tag-irs-scandal","tag-stupidity","tag-totalitarianism"],"views":758,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14773,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=14773","url_meta":{"origin":17225,"position":0},"title":"IRS tax cheats rewarded with bonuses","author":"Angry Webmaster","date":"April 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Why am I not surprised at this? With the ever increasing scandal going on with the Internal Revenue Service, they just have to double down on the stupid. Rather then start punishing some of the malefactors, preferably by firing them, they instead reward them with bonuses.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News of the Day&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News of the Day","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=71"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Good Idea Fairy 3","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/The-Good-Idea-Fairy-3-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":38533,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=38533","url_meta":{"origin":17225,"position":1},"title":"Those 87,000 new IRS agents have their first assignments. Auditing other IRS agents","author":"Angry Webmaster","date":"October 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all. One of the things that was slipped into the Build Back Broke Lite bill was funding for 87,000 new IRS agents, 70,000+ of them to be armed. There has been discussions on who would actually be audited by these trigger happy goons, with most people saying \u201cNot\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=176"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/79\/cf\/97\/79cf97a8a1dda3462047cc50a33ffbe8.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16773,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=16773","url_meta":{"origin":17225,"position":2},"title":"IRS: Give us a bigger budget or the refunds get it!","author":"Angry Webmaster","date":"December 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all. The IRS commissioner John Koskinen has announced that due to budget cuts, the Internal Revenue Service might not be able to get people\u2019s tax refunds out on time.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Crime&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Crime","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"holes","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/holes-300x184.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":43658,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=43658","url_meta":{"origin":17225,"position":3},"title":"Surprising no one, IRS union backs Comrade Harris and Tampon Tim","author":"Angry Webmaster","date":"October 8, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all. I so love it when events move faster then my posting ability. I have a few items in my queue, such as this. One of the things that the Worst President* in American History, the senile crook Joe Biden, did was push through a massive increase in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=176"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/42\/c4\/41\/42c4413852f49846079a2a0ba42a58b5.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15296,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=15296","url_meta":{"origin":17225,"position":4},"title":"IRS scandal smelling like a coverup","author":"Angry Webmaster","date":"June 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all, in the continuing scandal regarding the Internal Revenue Service, the suppression of the Conservative enemies of Obama and the missing emails, many people are detecting the aroma of a coverup.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Crime&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Crime","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"ISr-emails-3-copy","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ISr-emails-3-copy-300x211.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15228,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=15228","url_meta":{"origin":17225,"position":5},"title":"The Dog ate a lot more emails!","author":"Angry Webmaster","date":"June 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday I wrote about the excuse the Internal Revenue Service was using to keep from providing Congress Lois Lerner\u2019s email. They claimed that her hard drive had failed and \u201cOh! I\u2019m sorry, we can\u2019t get them back.\u201d That excuse went over like a lead filled balloon.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Crime&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Crime","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"Thrown under the bus","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Thrown-under-the-bus-300x240.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27082,"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17225\/revisions\/27082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}