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                <title><![CDATA["as far as I am concerned, this case is closed" ~Rep. A. Cummings D-MD - @joanne-odel]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[  Former GOP Senate candidate Christine ODonnell told her tax records were breached  Errant lien on house placed, publicized<br><br> Read more:  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/17/former-gop-senate-candidate-christine-odonnell-tol/?page=1#ixzz2ZPeZa2Mi <br> Follow us:  @washtimes on Twitter    More than two years after her upstart  Senate  campaign rocked the Delaware political world,  Christine O'Donnell  got an unexpected contact from a  U.S. Treasury Department  agent warning that her private tax records may have been breached.  The phone message earlier this year shocked the battled-scarred candidate, a tea party favorite who knocked off Republican mainstay  Michael Castle  in the primary before losing in a bid to win Vice President  Joseph R. Biden s former seat.   Ms. O'Donnell , this is  Dennis Martel , special agent with the  U.S. Department  of Treasury in Baltimore, Md.  We received information that your personal federal tax info may have been compromised and may have been misused by an individual, he said in the January message left on her cellphone.  For  Ms. O'Donnell , the message immediately raised red flags.  On March 9, 2010, the day she revealed her plan to run for the  Senate  in a press release, a tax lien was placed on a house purported to be hers and publicized. The problem was she no longer owned the house. The  IRS  eventually blamed the lien on a computer glitch and withdrew it.  Now  Mr. Martel , a criminal investigator for the  Treasury Department s inspector general for tax administration, was telling her that an official in Delaware state government had improperly accessed her records on that very same day.  Beyond that,  Ms. O'Donnell  and  Senate  investigators who have tried to help her have run into a wall of silence, leaving more questions than answers about whether abuses of the  IRS  system extend to private individuals and not just the tax-exempt groups already identified as victims.    <br><br><br>  I dont know. And Id like to know, Ms. O Donnell  told The Washington Times in her first interview about the case. Because whether its one, eight or 80 [cases], its an abuse of power at the  IRS . Its using the  IRS  as a political weapon, and that shouldnt be done. <br><br> Read more:  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/17/former-gop-senate-candidate-christine-odonnell-tol/?page=1#ixzz2ZPeisikZ <br> Follow us:  @washtimes on Twitter ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:52:11 -0400</pubDate>
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