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EXCLUSIVE: A top aide and confidante to former Obama official Lois Lerner who targeted conservatives and conservative groups received a notice of proposed removal from the Internal Revenue Service, Fox News Digital has learned.
A notice of proposed removal, also known as a “pink slip,” is a formal letter from a federal agency informing a federal employee that the agency intends to terminate their employment. As is standard in the process, the official, Holly Paz, has 30 days to respond. She remains employed by the IRS and is on administrative leave pending a final decision regarding her employment status.
Sources told Fox News Digital that Paz, who served as the IRS Commissioner of the Large Business and International Division, received the notice on Monday.
She was placed on administrative leave last month and was subsequently notified of her removal following an internal review, sources say. A lawyer for Paz told Fox News Digital that the internal review has not yet been completed.
This March 5, 2014 file photo shows former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner on Capitol Hill in Washington. IRS employees erased computer backup tapes a month after officials discovered that thousands of emails related to the tax agency’s tea party scandal had been lost, according to government investigators. (AP)
Paz had served as Lerner’s deputy during the Obama administration.
In 2013, it was revealed that the IRS, under Lerner, had wrongfully scrutinized tax-exempt applications related to the phrases “Tea Party,” “9/12” and “Constitution.” The Treasury’s inspector general later confirmed “inappropriate criteria” were used to target conservative groups and criticized ineffective oversight of systemic bias.
The IRS reportedly spent more than two years targeting conservative tax-exempt groups.
Paz reviewed and helped oversee the handling of tax-exempt applications, and has been described as a key link between the Cincinnati, Ohio IRS office where the screenings of applications took place and the IRS headquarters.
A sign for the Internal Revenue Service is seen outside its building on Feb. 13, 2025 in Washington, D.C. ( Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
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