(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton issued the following statement today regarding the recent court filing by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revealing the existence of an alias email address used by Lois Lerner, former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the IRS:

It is remarkable that the Obama IRS and Justice Department waited two years to tell a federal court that Lois Lerner had a separate email account that contains documents at issue in the IRS scandal. Especially since both agencies knew about this account since April of last year.

It could be a crime if Lois Lerner kept confidential taxpayer data on her non-governmental email account.

This new disclosure follows the Obama administration’s Nixonian practice of “modified limited hangouts” of information about its IRS scandal and Lois Lerner “lost and found” emails. Every step of the way, the Obama IRS has obstructed this court’s orders to get Lois Lerner’s emails recovered and searched.

The Court has already threatened contempt against both IRS Commissioner John Koskinen and Justice Department attorneys over the Lerner email issue. And I suspect that Judge Sullivan won’t be pleased by this latest revelation.