Sessions Ends DOJ Funding of Left-Wing Causes

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | June 7, 2017 | Rush Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

RUSH: You know, we talked about this, too, not long ago, the discovery that whenever there were fines issued by the DOJ and the Obama administration, the fine money went to left-wing special interest groups, and Eric Holder administered it. It was almost like a Obama slush fund. Well, Jeff Sessions has just ended this. The DOJ will no longer make payments to left-wing special interest groups with money collected by fining various criminal activity. This is a huge, huge deal. People didn’t even know it was going on.

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RUSH: If you’re just hearing about this for the first time, thanks to work by our friends at Judicial Watch, we only find out about this a couple years ago. For the entirety of the Obama administration, whenever the DOJ levied fines against convicted criminals or even people that were plea dealed, maybe not convicted criminals, not jury trial, but just somebody takes a plea and there was an accompanying fine, all of that fine money, have you ever wondered where it goes normally?

What Obama and Holder did was direct the vast majority of it to left-wing special interest groups, such as Planned Parenthood or any other number of left-wing special interests. We’re talking millions and millions of dollars. This also served as an impetus to levy more fines and raise those fines in order to redistribute that money to left-wing special interest groups.

And it was only a couple years ago that we found out about this, as I say, because of the FOIA efforts of people at Judicial Watch. The Heritage Foundation, Peter Schweizer, they were all looking into this. “The Department of Justice (DOJ) will end its third-party settlement practice, a controversial prosecutorial tactic critics deride as a scheme to finance the government’s political allies, and resolve cases without judicial oversight. In a memorandum circulated internally Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions,” who, by the way, the left now loves again because he offered to resign from the Trump administration.

So they’re no longer making fun of his middle name. His middle name is Beauregard, and the left has always thought that meant that he had traces back to slave blood. “I mean, nobody names their kid Beauregard,” they’re running around saying. But now they love Sessions because Sessions offered to resign because of a dustup he had with Trump. And that dustup is over Sessions’ recusal from the Russian investigation. Trump is livid, apparently, still livid about it and thinks that if Sessions had not recused, that we wouldn’t be anywhere near needing a special counsel.

But, anyway, Sessions has just wrapped this up and he has ended it with a memo circulated internally on Monday. “He announced the DOJ would no longer ask corporate entities to offer a monetary award to a third party as a condition of avoiding prosecution.” The way it worked, the way Obama and Holder did it, they’d have a target, in many cases a deep pocketed target, usually a corporation of some kind, and they would offer the CEO or the accused a way to plea bargain with not much criminal attachment, if any, if they would pay a fine to, say, take your pick of a left-wing group, Planned Parenthood.

And these CEOs would jump at it. They would jump at it. “You kidding me? That’s the deal? I can avoid prosecution? I take a plea deal, accept a fine and all I’ve gotta do is send some money to some left-wing wackos?” And Obama and Holder said, “Yep, that’s the deal.” That was going on. Nobody knew about it, and nobody even knows about this now because the only place I’ve seen it reported is Fox News. The Drive-Bys are not reporting on this at all. But I remember telling you about it at least a month ago, so I wanted to give you the update.

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RUSH: On this slush fund business, you know, it’s amazing how time gets away from you. It was only on March 3rd that we learned about the Obama-Holder shush fund. You know, time sometimes accrues in confusing periods, and I could have sworn we learned about this over a year ago. It was just in March that we learned that the Obama administration was making plea deals with various entities and offering them favorable treatment from the DOJ if they would accept fines that they would then pay to left-wing special interest groups.

In other words, the Obama administration was letting them off easy in exchange for money that they would send as fine penalties to groups like Planned Parenthood and any other number of left-wing groups. Anyway, that was exposed by Judicial Watch. It was just back in March that we learned about this, not last year. And Jeff Sessions has ended it.

[sphinx]

If all Sessions does is stop it, the next Democratic administation will be back in business the moment it takes over. DOJ needs to establish appropriate regulations and institutionalize transparency including public disclosure and formal notification of Congress on both sides of the aisle. Perhaps the practice should be prohibited entirely, both by regulation and statute. That seems the best course to me, but I don't know the history and don't have context.

In the meantime, the feds should aggressively audit every penny involved in these payoffs. The paperwork would surely have defined a public purpose for which the funds were received. A proper forensic audit should cost these groups three times the amount they received, and if a nickle is unaccounted for, or went to improper purposes, people should go to jail. After spending five years of their lives battling the process, and being bankrupted hiring lawyers. This is how the left practices lawfare, and the left should get a taste of its own medicine.

[Intolerant in NJ]

And Obama corruption just goes on and on - I wonder how many dollars were actually delivered to the lefties through this government-facilitated extortion......

[grania]

I've expressed several times that AG Sessions did the correct thing recusing himself from the Russia fantasies. By doing that, he isn't wasting his time on all the hearings, questions, etc. And he's using his time well. Quietly, out of the spotlight, AG Sessions is actually accomplishing important things that are part of the Deplorable agenda.

I get very upset about calls that AG Sessions should step down. Throughout the campaign, it was obvious that Trump was at his very best when Sessions was there to mentor him. The presidency didn't start out as well as we'd have liked. That's probably why the coup slow-walked Sessions confirmation. The longer he wasn't confirmed, the more opportunity to undermine the new administration.

[Rusty0604]

Personally I think Sessions is doing a great job as far as he can do with immigration and the President’s policy. The DOJ does need so more swamp draining.

[sphinx]

Thinking about it more, Sessions should probably appoint an independent counsel to pursue this investigation. It will be a large undertaking, politically sensitive from the start, and enormously consumptive of the time and energy of whoever runs it. That's one of the reasons Republicans don't play for blood; they want to do their jobs and move an agenda, not pursue vendettas, so they close the books too soon and move on. The criminals skate, and by now the Democrats believe they will never be held accountable. That said, Sessions has other fish to fry. An aggressive independent counsel is the answer.

The investigation should also not overlook government employees. It should pursue any evidence of collusion between DOJ political appointees, career staff, and Members of Congress. The issue here should be characterized from the outset as DOJ running an extortion racket to generate political kickbacks. Any participation in this would be grounds for termination and possibly loss of benefits for career DOJ staff, as well as potential criminal prosecution.

The first step would be announcing the investigation and sending a notification requiring records retention to all individuals and organizations potentially involved. This would include relevant communications with Members of Congress. Failure to preserve relevant records would of course be actionable in and of itself. It would be appropriate to send an explanatory letter to all Members of Congress, as well as past Members, outlining the purposes of the investigation, assuring them that this is not a mere fishing expedition, encouraging full cooperation, and warning of missteps that could be construed as obstruction of justice.

If found guilty, perps should do at least some jail time. Drain the swamp. And kill the swamp critters.

If anyone has an in with someone in the administration, pass it along.

[Fred Hayek]

So DOJ was in the shakedown business with Sharpton and HiJackson.

[Kaslin]

You said it

[TEXOKIE]

My guess is that it wasn’t considered legal by the perpetrators; therefore we never heard about it. “most transparent,” you know...

[TEXOKIE]

good points!

[combat_boots]

Bank settlements and fines alone were in the billions.

[combat_boots]

Barclay’s
Deutsche Bank
BofA
JP Morgan Chase
Wells Fargo
Citi

Billions upon billions

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bank+fines+2015&t=h_&ia=web

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

I think all the hoopla investigating Russia is a diversion from the real crimes committed by Obama, holder, Clinton.

Look a Russian squirrel!

[Carl Vehse]

"The entire Obama Administration was one huge criminal enterprise. They all ought to be in jail."

Well, yes, until the gallows are ready.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

It is not enough to stop things like this. The details of what went on must be exposed.

 

Yes, out of self-defense if anything. Whatever nastiness was funded is probably still in motion and it would be very prudent to find out what it is.

 

 

[LittleMoe]

what left wing groups

[LittleMoe]

wHAT ARE THE LIST OF LEFT WING GROUPS ?

[LittleMoe]

WHAT LEFT WING GROUPS NAMES

[Mr. K]

Isn’t that extortion??????????

[ronnie raygun]

When oh when will we ever see jail time for any of these cretans