Representative Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee claims to have a "smoking gun" email proving that Barak Obama's DOJ directed funds from settlements away from conservative groups.
That was used for rapid response by Congress.
This was done by then-Associate Attorney General Tony West's team that went out of its way to exclude conservative groups from Bank of America and Citigroup settlement. Emails between Tony West and Principal Deputy Associate Attorney, emphasize the importance of not allowing Citigroup to pick a statewide intermediary like the Pacific Legal Foundation because that group handles conservative property-rights free legal services."
Instead, much of the DOJ settlement money went to avowedly left-wing groups like the National Urban League and to Unidos US (onetime La Raza).
Since the 1970 when the Community Reinvestment Act began the practice of requiring banks and financial institutions to fund community organizations the settlements have been a regular feature of DOJ civil lawsuits.
3% of billions in settlement is designated to victims. Obama's DOJ redirected payments to liberal groups, many of which had nothing to do with the settlement or the issue, and away from conservative groups.
It is a slush fund abused by Obama and Holder DOJ through schemes to undermine Congress's spending authority by transferring money independently to Obama's political allies. Wednesday, the Justice Department announced it will no longer allow prosecutors to strike settlement agreements with big companies directing them to make payouts to outside groups. ending the Obama-era practice that padded the accounts of liberal interest groups.
“When the federal government settles a case against a corporate wrongdoer, any settlement funds should go first to the victims and then to the American people—not to bankroll third-party special interest groups or the political friends of whoever is in power,” Sessions said in a statement.
[Goodlatte, "smoking gun" email] Nearly all sites reporting have the same text and quotes. More detailed information at Legal Insurrection.
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Trooper York has a post titled "Laura Bush's Diary" that has a date stamp 12:45 PM Yesterday but it's still in draft.
Now, this is confusing.
It's been sitting there. Sitting, sitting, sitting.
I almost went ahead posted it, then I thought, "Can't touch this, Hammer time!"
Because maybe it's being finely edited with delicate touches and rewording just so. Tuned up for poetic perfection.
Who knows? It could happen.
Conservative Political Forum Has a clear and no-holds barred description with amounts and names. And its commenters are delightful and lighthearted spirits. <--- possible mischaracterization.
To the surprise of absolutely no one.
PS I think Troop has the hots for Miss Laura.
I don't think this is particularly news except if there is actually clear evidence that it was directed by Holder. We know the DoJ was doing stuff like this, but only because the organizations could see it. The notion was that it was "just part of the settlement", which is like being told they ran out of food, but everyone else seems to be well fed. Or more correctly, they couldn't prove "intent" (there's that Comey word again!). So the email, if it is what is claimed, is the smoking gun of intent. I will be shocked if Holder was so clumsy as to put his intent into writing.
It would be nice if all of them went to prison, but that won't happen.
I'm running an experiment.
I.R.S apologizes.
Legal Insurrection just put up an article. Commenters think that apology is insufficient. They want to see heads roll. Instead all we'll see is the discriminatory practices stopped and a new IRS commissioner. But that is not satisfying. They want, we want, heads to roll.
The guillotine. What a brilliant idea. Too bad the French invented the thing then got carried away and gave beheading a bad rap.
So I linked to the post about the pop-up card that I made as emotional therapy.
The post was called I.R.S. retraining. Presently with 156 views.
I'm curious to see if anyone clicks on it.
My bet is 6 will click. That will raise the total to *counts on fingers* 162.
Okay, that does it!
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I double-dog bet myself.
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