President Donald Trump’s pick to be the IRS’s top lawyer told Senate Finance Committee aides that a former longtime agency employee should be “shot” for his resignation during the tax-filing season, the panel’s top Democrat said at the nominee’s hearing Wednesday.
IRS Chief Counsel nominee Donald Korb, current counsel at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, said in a private meeting with Senate staffers that Doug O’Donnell, the former acting IRS commissioner who resigned earlier this year, should have been shot for his decision to leave, Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said during the hearing.
In that same meeting, ...
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