Attorney General Loretta Lynch invoked her Fifth Amendment protection not to incriminate herself over the Obama administration's transfer of money to Iran.
Congress members Mike Pompeo and Marco Rubio suggested that Attorney General Loretta Lynch's response to their query about a transfer of money to Iran was akin to invoking Fifth Amendment protections.
In October 2016 the conspiracy-mongering site InfoWars was one of several outlets claiming that Attorney General Loretta Lynch “ [took]” or “ [pled]” the Fifth (Amendment) to avoid testifying with respect to the Obama administration’s controversial transfer of money to Iran in settlement of a long-standing Hague Tribunal claim: