The Washington Examiner and later Just the News published a May 8, 2013, email in which Lois Lerner told IRS colleagues she had heard from “Richard Pilger Director Elections Crimes Branch at DOJ.” Lerner wrote that he wanted to know who at IRS the Department could talk to about Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s hearing idea that DOJ could “piece together false statement cases about applicants who ‘lied’ on their 1024s.”
House Oversight’s 2014 release said Pilger told investigators the 2013 contact followed pressure around that Whitehouse subcommittee hearing, and that he had first discussed related ideas with Lerner in 2010. Those are committee characterizations of his interview. They document discussions about possible theories of prosecution. They do not document a criminal conviction of Pilger.
The Examiner’s 2014 opinion piece framed the emails as Justice and IRS talking about prosecuting conservative groups. That framing is commentary. The quoted Lerner sentence is the document.