IRS watchdog: Up to 24,000 missing Lois Lerner emails

Source: CNN

The IRS watchdog investigating the disappearance of Lois Lerner's emails has concluded that there could be as many as 24,000 missing emails, according to written congressional testimony obtained by CNN.

Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration Russell George and his deputy, Timothy Camus, will tell the House Oversight Committee on Thursday that their investigation was able to recover more than 1,000 emails the IRS did not turn over to Congress, according to the written testimony.

Lerner was the Internal Revenue Service official at the center of allegations that the agency targeted tea party groups applying for nonprofit status. Congress requested Lerner's emails from the IRS and agency officials told lawmakers an unknown number of emails had been lost when Lerner's computer crashed.

The investigation could not determine why Lerner's computer crashed, according to the testimony.

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