BLOOMBERG LAW: The investigation into Paz and Kastenberg comes weeks after Long became commissioner and months after two reports by the right-leaning American Accountability Foundation were published by the Washington Examiner. The reports say LB&I and OPR include multiple critics of President Donald Trump. Paz and Kastenberg also have ties to a 2012 controversy in which the IRS tax-exempt division subjected conservative nonprofit applications to extra scrutiny.
“AAF has long been focused on the cadre of career civil servants who undermine the agenda that the American people voted for in November,” Thomas Jones, who leads the American Accountability Foundation, said in an email Wednesday. “Getting rid of leaders who weaponized the IRS against citizens is a good start and we are hopeful Billy Long goes deeper and roots out the endemic corruption at the IRS.” [READ MORE]