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Has a complete list of these payments been published?

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

[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.

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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.