The woman in charge of the IRS division responsible for reviewing tax-exempt status applications and who is at the heart of an ongoing scandal over revelations the agency targeted conservative groups is set to receive an honorary tribute from Western New England University School of Law on Saturday.
Lois Lerner – director for the IRS Exempt Organization Division – is slated to deliver the school's commencement address and be given the university's "President's Medallion."
Established in 2002, the award is "bestowed upon those who have distinguished themselves in a particular field or in service to an important cause that has benefited society locally, regionally, nationally, or internationally," the college's website states.
In the wake of revelations that her division zeroed in on and gave extra scrutiny to groups with "tea party" or "patriot" in their names, Lerner, 62, has been thrust into the national spotlight, dubbed by some as the "face of the IRS scandal."
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