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Report: IRS Official Suspended

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Lois Lerner is at the center of tax-exempt scandal.

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KAREN BLEIER / AFP

Vacation, ahem, administrative leave, might be a good thing right now for Lois Lerner. The IRS official in charge of investigating tax-exempt organizations—at the center of the scandal involving the IRS’s targeting of the Tea Party—has been placed on administrative leave, sources said Thursday.

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