On Saturday, Celia Roady -- the lawyer who asked the question of IRS official Lois Lerner at the May 10 American Bar Association conference -- issues the following statement to Fox:

“On May 9, I received a call from Lois Lerner, who told me that she wanted to address an issue after her prepared remarks … and asked if I would pose a question to her after her remarks. I agreed to do so.…We had no discussion thereafter on the topic of the question, nor had we spoken about any of this before I received her call. She did not tell me, and I did not know, how she would answer the question.”

News reports about the inspector general’s report released this week came out May 11.

Roady is a partner at the international, Philadelphia-based Morgan, Lewis and Bockius LLP.

The news of the planted question was reported first by U.S. News and World Report.

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