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IRS targeting controversy

Pilger had previously been involved in the IRS targeting controversy. In 2013, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revealed that it had selected Republican political groups applying for tax-exempt status for intensive scrutiny based on their names or political themes. Pilger in his capacity as the head of the Election Crimes Branch met with Exempt Organizations Unit director Lois Lerner in October 2010 to discuss the problems of conservative groups' spending in the upcoming 2010 midterm election.[3][4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pilger

https://www.pli.edu/faculty/richard-c.-pilger-18444

Mr. Pilger has also served in temporary assignments for the Department, including stints as the Legal Advisor at the United States Embassy in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, where he headed anti-corruption assistance to the Georgian government, and as a Special Assistant United States Attorney prosecuting numerous jury trials of street crime in the District of Columbia.

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"Why It’s Illegal: Any deployment of DHS agents in the vicinity of a polling place or any place where votes are being counted would violate the same criminal statute that applies to all armed federal officers. The Department of Justice’s own election crimes manual confirms that the statute bars any armed federal agent from election sites.

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5 Indeed, when asked about the president’s threat to send agents to the polls, the acting head of DHS responded point-blank: “We don’t have any authority to do that at the department.”

It is also illegal for…"

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1. Richard C. Pilger, ed., Federal Prosecution of Election Offenses, 8th ed., U.S. Department of Justice, December 2017,

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voters-should-not-be-intimidated

Below is an abbreviated outline of Pilger's academic and professional career:[2]

2010 - Present: Election Crimes Branch Director, Criminal Division, DOJ

2007 - 2010: Senior Trial Attorney at the Public Integrity Section, Criminal Division, DOJ

1992 - 2007: Trial Attorney at the Public Integrity Section, Criminal Division, DOJ

1990: J.D., Indiana University, Bloomington

1987: B.A. in Philosophy and English, University of Notre Dame

https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Pilger