ptsal wrote: "Press releasehttps://www.cbo.gov/publication/52457"
Posted on 03/01/2017 10:06:34 AM PST by Beave Meister
I would think that Trump could stop it with an Executive Order barring any such settlements.
I thought he was a gung-ho! Rule of Law kinda guy.
ptsal wrote: "Press releasehttps://www.cbo.gov/publication/52457"
Thanks for posting the text. This isn’t a government slush fund. It is the disreputable practice of the govt suing suing corporations and forcing them as part of the settlement to donate to left wing groups. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52457
Yeah, funny about that missing six billion dollars, isn't it? Well, maybe not so funny. Who needs Soros when you can hijack the federal budget to party purposes?
Exactly right. With, in essence, the Fortune 100 as funding sources.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is nothing but a huge leftist slush fund also.
So the obammy department really was the UNjustics department! Criminal bastards ...
Drain the Swamp
Obama provided tons of money to fix the presidential election; a voter fraud campaign they hoped might alter the course of the elections not to mention the future of the United States.
Obama and Congressional Democrats----with a huge assist from then-AG Eric Holder----gaven NeighborWorks America (formerly ACORN) and La Raza a huge funding source of tax dollars (to achieve Obama's dream of a permanent Democrat majority?).
<><> Obama/Holder/Dems extorted banks via DOJ litigation/bank settlements----into paying off these nefarious organizations.
DOJ went after CitiCorp and ordered them to pay $50 million to La Raza and NeighborWorks America as part of the settlement.
Another clause in the agreement makes it possible for La Raza and NeighborWorks America to rake in even larger amounts of money.
Of the remaining money the banks needed to pay in settlements, the banks were able to contribute additional money to La Raza and NeighborWorks America. For every dollar they contribute, it reduces their debt to the government by 2 dollars. That’s some mighty powerful incentive to give generously.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling have questioned why this money was sent to the ACORN clone and the blood-thirsty LaRaza----rather than to the alleged victims of the bank’s crime. The administration of course declined to answer.
Here's part of the Congressmen's letter to Holder: “It seems that the alleged victims are not the primary beneficiaries of these multi-billion dollar settlements. Instead, the terms in the Justice Department’s two latest settlements look less like consumer relief and more like a scheme to funnel money to politically favored special interest groups.”
“This makes donations to activist groups far more attractive to banks than providing direct relief to injured consumers. As a result, the settlements appear to serve as a vehicle for funding activist groups rather than as a means of securing relief for consumers actually harmed.”
Exactly. The GOP talks a good game about eliminating funding for a lot of government agencies and programs that promote the Left. But never seems to be able to do it, even when they control everything.
Well freakin HANG SOMEBODY then and quit whining all the time!
Usually these stories emerge about "looking for wrong-doing" filter out, right before they announce they found the slush funds.
The culprits have to scurry to coverup the paper trail.
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Clinton supposedly flew to Epstein's Pedo Island almost thirty times.
Some of us think it wasnt about sex so much as it was about looking for offshore banks and small islands to hide and launder funny money......and evade taxes.
“The culprits have to scurry to coverup the paper trail.”
Often when they do stuff like that in a panic, they leave a lot bread crumbs along their trails to follow.
Heh....they NEVER figured they’d be confronted w/ genius crumb-catchers like Trump and Sessions.
Ryan should have been able to do this a long time ago.
This should be easy.
Not holding my breath waiting.
I am so very ready to see many high-level perps in prison.
“Defund the Left!” was our rallying cry almost 40 years ago. We failed then and will fail again. The communists in the USSR gave up, but ours never will. And Beltway Republicans just don’t care.
Black Butt Brothers
Immediately.....Fire, Remove, Re-Assign the entire Department or Staff of people involved in this, so no one is there to administer this or even so much as answer the phone!
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