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Some Missing Lois Lerner E-Mails May Have Been Found, Panel Says

Lois Lerner, the director of the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) exempt organizations office, listens during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 — Lois Lerner, the director of the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) exempt organizations office, listens during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Photographer: Pete Marovich/Bloomberg

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Richard Rubin

November 21, 2014, 9:43 PM UTCUpdated onNovember 22, 2014, 5:00 AM UTC

Some of the missing e-mails of former IRS employee Lois Lerner may have been found.

The data recovery by the Internal Revenue Service’s inspector general comes five months after the agency said they couldn’t be recovered. The Senate Finance Committee announced the discovery yesterday.