FILE - In this Dec. 18, 1986 file photo, Oliver North is sown in on Capitol Hill in Washington prior to testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Lois Lerner of the IRS joins a diverse roll call of people who have invoked their Fifth Amendment right not to answer lawmakers? questions over the years. North cited his Fifth Amendment rights and refused to answer committee question availing the Iran arms sale. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE - In this Dec. 18, 1986 file photo, Oliver North is sown in on Capitol Hill in Washington prior to testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Lois Lerner of the IRS joins a diverse roll call of people who have invoked their Fifth Amendment right not to answer lawmakers? questions over the years. North cited his Fifth Amendment rights and refused to answer committee question availing the Iran arms sale. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE - In this March 17, 2005 file photo, former Major League baseball player Mark McGwire testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington during a hearing on the use of steroids in professional baseball. Lois Lerner of the IRS joins a diverse roll call of people who have invoked their Fifth Amendment right not to answer lawmakers? questions over the years. McGwire, sometimes choking back tears, wouldn?t say whether he had used steroids while hitting a then-record 70 home runs in the 1998 season. McGwire later admitted use of steroids and human growth hormone. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2010 file photo, Tareq Salahi and Michaele Salahi wait to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Homeland Security Committee. Lois Lerner of the IRS joins a diverse roll call of people who have invoked their Fifth Amendment right not to answer lawmakers? questions over the years. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)
FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2002 file photo, former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay gives brief remarks before he exercised his constitutional rights and refused to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lois Lerner of the IRS joins a diverse roll call of people who have invoked their Fifth Amendment right not to answer lawmakers? questions over the years. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 22, 1989 file photo, financier Charles H. Keating arrives to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington to testify before the House Banking Committee. Lois Lerner of the IRS joins a diverse roll call of people who have invoked their Fifth Amendment right not to answer lawmakers? questions over the years. Keating cited his Fifth Amendment protection against self incrimination did not answer questions from the panel. (AP Photo/Scott Applewhite, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Lois Lerner of the IRS joins a diverse roll call of people who have invoked Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination in refusing to answer questions at congressional hearings over the years.
A few of the well-known names:
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?Former St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire, sometimes choking back tears, wouldn't say in 2005 whether he had used steroids while hitting a then-record 70 home runs in the 1998 season. Years later, McGwire acknowledged use of steroids and human growth hormone.
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?Lobbyist Jack Abramoff refused to answer questions in 2004 about bribery and influence-peddling schemes that eventually led to more than 20 convictions of lobbyists, lawmakers, congressional aides and others. After serving a 3?-year prison sentence, Abramoff said most of the senators who lobbed questions at him that day were hypocrites who had taken thousands of dollars from his clients and firms.
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?Oliver North and John M. Poindexter, national security aides to President Ronald Reagan, initially pleaded the Fifth during the Iran-Contra hearings in 1986. They later testified under a deal that promised them limited immunity. That grant of immunity eventually would lead an appeals court to overturn their criminal convictions.
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?Playwright and screenwriter Lillian Hellman in 1952 was among those blacklisted because they refused to testify before Sen. Joseph McCarthy's communist-hunting committee. Other film industry figures who took the Fifth and were sentenced to jail for contempt of Congress became known as the "Hollywood 10."
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