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IRS Launches Investigation Of Clinton Foundation
Zero Hedge ^ | 2/27/2016 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 07/27/2016 5:37:05 AM PDT by orchestra

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen referred congressional charges of corrupt Clinton Foundation “pay-to-play” activities to his tax agency’s exempt operations office for investigation, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

The request to investigate the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation on charges of “public corruption” was made in a July 15 letter by 64 House Republicans to the IRS, FBI and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). They charged the foundation is “lawless.”

The initiative is being led by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican who serves as the vice chairwoman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which oversees FTC. The FTC regulates public charities alongside the IRS.

The lawmakers charged the Clinton Foundation is a “lawless ‘pay-to-play’ enterprise that has been operating under a cloak of philanthropy for years and should be investigated.”

Koskinen’s July 22 reply came only a week after the House Republicans contacted the tax agency. It arrived to their offices Monday, the first opening day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

“We have forwarded the information you have submitted to our Exempt Organizations Program in Dallas,” Koskinen told the Republicans.

The Exempt Organization Program is the division of the IRS that regulates the operations of public foundations and charities. It’s the same division that was led by former IRS official Lois Lerner when hundreds of conservative, evangelical and tea party non-profit applicants were illegally targeted and harassed by tax officials.

Blackburn told TheDCNF she believes the IRS has a double standard because, “they would go after conservative groups and religious groups and organizations, but they wouldn’t be looking at the Clinton Foundation for years. It was as if they choose who they are going to audit and question. It’s not right.”

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


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To: orchestra

Ooo, ooo, can I be the first to say “She’s toast!”

/sarc


21 posted on 07/27/2016 5:45:08 AM PDT by workerbee
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To: orchestra

22 posted on 07/27/2016 5:45:17 AM PDT by capydick (“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”)
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To: GOPJ; Jane Long; ExTexasRedhead; RitaOK; ColdOne; Black Agnes; Tennessee Nana; sickoflibs; ...
Wall Street financial analyst, Charles Ortel, said he's discovered new evidence that the Clinton Foundation mismanaged, “perhaps intentionally,” financial and regulatory reporting required by US federal and state governments for charities under tax-exempt status.

BACKSTORY---At the Clinton Foundation's lavish Morocco meeting hosted by a king, held early April, Bill Clinton was asked by a billionaire donor what Clinton was doing w/ the Foundations' donations.

The Foundation donor referred to the blizzard of adverse publicity that monies sent to the Foundation were not used as intended.

"What is this money for? What have you done with it?," he asked Clinton. The billionaire donor also told Clinton his daughter (a Foundation Board member) felt useless.....b/c apparently Board Members were not advised of some of Clinton's "charitable" activities.

"I just work here," Clinton responded. "I don't know." So if Foundation founder Bill Clinton did not know---and the Board did not know---who knew?

CONCLUSION If Foundation Board members were not advised of, and did not sign off on, expenditures of tax-exenpt Foundation donations, the Clintons have a legal problem that could involve violation of tax laws. Board members of Foundations are fiduciaries and are required to oversee the distribution of tax-exempt donations.

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NOTE TO ORTEL Several state and federal agencies the Clintons listed as donors told news outlets they did not contribute to the Clinton Foundation.

<><> EPA said there's no record of donations to the Clinton Foundation.

<><> The “Office of Minority Health and Human Services,” is listed but it's not clear what this donation referred to, or even which federal or state office it came from.

<><> The Arkansas Dept of Human Services received a donor "gift receipt" but said they never expended tax dollars to the Foundation.

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Ortel says The Clinton Foundation's financial statements over the past six years have been fraudulent. They've been compelled to refile years of falsified tax returns.

Ortel surely knows that the reason ANY offical documents are falsified is to cover-up even bigger crimes.

23 posted on 07/27/2016 5:46:20 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PACE A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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To: P-Marlowe

“In other news the IRS purchased a million gallons of Ultra White paint.”

Not to mention, industrial spray guns and they have hired illegals to do the work.


24 posted on 07/27/2016 5:47:14 AM PDT by JohnnyP
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To: trebb

Let me guess, this has been an ongoing concern for what something like 2 years. They finally decide to take a look?

It seems to me a multi hundred million foundation would be on the audit watch, not something that needs be looked into because Congress asked. Besides, they had no problem, on their own, attacking tea party organizations, some with less than 10K donated, on their own.

It is time to burn this system to the ground and start over.


25 posted on 07/27/2016 5:47:33 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: orchestra

No Intent. Nothing to see here.


26 posted on 07/27/2016 5:50:13 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: orchestra

Big fat hairy deal.

The FBI is as corrupt as they come.


27 posted on 07/27/2016 5:50:26 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: orchestra

Can’t comment. Under investigation.

Convenient timing of the “investigation.”


28 posted on 07/27/2016 5:53:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: orchestra
THIS NEEDS A CONCERTED INVESTIGATION:

THE CLINTONS' ABILITY TO GET RICH EXPLOITING
NATIONAL DISASTERS UNDER COVER OF THE CLINTON
FOUNDATION IS LEGENDARY and they do it w/ your tax dollars.

Read on.

Haiti, Malta, the Clintons and Digicel

BFF---Clinton and Digicel CEO/billionaire. Dennis O'Brien.
O'Brien chairs the Clinton Foundation's Global Initiative---Haiti Action Network.
US tax dollars poured into O'Brien's coffers thanks to the Clintons.

EXCERPT Free Beacon May 2015--- The Clintons have been working with Digicel CEO Denis O’Brien in Haiti since 2010, in the wake of the disastrous earthquake. Bill Clinton and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been active players in the country before the quake, but would assume almost total managerial control over the recovery effort via the State Department and the Clinton Foundation.

As Peter Schweizer documents in his book, "Clinton Cash," Digicel received millions in U.S. tax dollars from USAID, an agency overseen by the State Department, as part of the Haiti Mobile Money Initiative. The program was designed to establish a mobile money-transfer system that would allow individuals to send donations directly to friends and relatives in Haiti.

The State Department's "USAID Food for Peace" program, which was under the direct control of Hillary Clinton’s top aide Cheryl Mills, benefited Digicel.....to administer money transfers over its mobile network. Haitians received cell phones and a free Digicel account.

Digicel received grants courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, and collected millions in fees from Haitians every time they used the system, and significantly expanded its user base.

By 2012, Digicel had captured nearly 80 percent of the Haitian mobile phone market, and Haiti had surpassed Jamaica as the company’s most profitable market. Revenues were up 14 percent compared to 2011, and Digicel’s subscriber base increased by almost 30 percent during that period. O’Brien, who holds a 94 percent stake in the privately owned firm, continued to rake in cash. In 2014 alone, O’Brien awarded himself $650 million worth of dividends.

MORE AT http://freebeacon.com/blog/oh-denny-boy-how-the-clintons-helped-an-irish-telecom-tycoon-makes-millions-in-earthquake-ravaged-haiti/

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Time to look at Malta to find more dirt on the Clintons.

BACKSTORY Secy Hillary poured billions of our tax dollars into dirt-poor, earthquake-ravaged Haiti as Bill put on his "do-good" act. But Haitian Americans protested the Clinton Foundation offices say dirt-poor Haitians never got a dime...all of the tax dollars have been laundered into the foundation.

REALITY CHECK In some Haitian mountain villages there's no electricity (maybe generators for a few hours), no water, no septic, etc. - but dirt-poor Haiti does have cell-phone coverage.

Reading the many stories of Clinton "do-goodism" in Haiti....he is invariably standing before a Digicel sign. You can bet your bottom dollar the Clintons get a cut of that action.

That's Digicel's CEO on the left.

The Digicel Group is the Caribbean and Central American telecom empire run by Denis O’Brien, an Irish billionaire officially resides in Malta to avoid taxes..... O'Brien serves as chairman of the Clinton Global Initiative’s Haiti Action Network.

Digicel, the largest mobile provider in Haiti, invested $45 million in the project, which also benefited from $26.5 million in financing from the World Bank-affiliated International Finance Corporation. Hillary also tapped the Sate Dept's USAID agency for more tax dollars for the tax-evadng billionaire.

The State Dept's USAID Food for Peace program, under the direct control of Hillary Clinton’s top aide Cheryl Mills, benefited money-hungry Digicel.....to administer money transfers over its mobile network.

Haitians received cell phones and a free Digicel account; Digicel received grants courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, collected millions in fees from Haitians every time they used the system, and significantly expanded its user base.

But it was Bill Clinton who made it all happen.

29 posted on 07/27/2016 5:56:38 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PACE A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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To: orchestra

I needed a good laugh this morning.


30 posted on 07/27/2016 6:00:29 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: orchestra

Hillary Clinton shattered your objectivity last night, IRS.


31 posted on 07/27/2016 6:01:44 AM PDT by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: orchestra

32 posted on 07/27/2016 6:02:13 AM PDT by JPG (Go Trump!)
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To: orchestra

Their current IRS status only grants them tax exempt status for a narrow range of activities, i.e. the presidential library in AR.

They seem to have granted themselves much broader tax exempt status.

That’s where the IRS will focus the make believe investigation.


33 posted on 07/27/2016 6:02:23 AM PDT by jazminerose (oective)
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To: unixfox
The Exempt Organization Program is the division of the IRS that regulates the operations of public foundations and charities. It’s the same division that was led by former IRS official Lois Lerner.

Trump must demand appointment of a special prosecutor this time to prevent the Clintonista lizards from slithering out from under the "scrutiny" of corrupt IRS and Justice Department political appointees.

34 posted on 07/27/2016 6:02:46 AM PDT by Rapscallion (You are correct. There has been a conspiracy. It has not just been a bad dream.)
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To: orchestra
John Koskinen, buuuwahahaha, the little lying reptilian whom lied about IRS back up tapes not existing and covering for Lerner. He will get right to the bottom of it. No doubt he and Comey have already meet on how the cover up will go down.
35 posted on 07/27/2016 6:05:17 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: orchestra

This is not an investigation, just a security review.


36 posted on 07/27/2016 6:05:35 AM PDT by fungoking (40% share for a TV show is a hit; in the 2016 election it a loss in a landslide, hello Pres Hillary)
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To: jimbo807

It is a good bet you’re right. Now there’s an immediate and at least nominally justifiable reason not to talk about this. Of course I have no doubt absolutely nothing will come from this. It’ll just provide a few weeks cover for them to keep their mouths shut and protect Clinton. I’ve got better odds of winning the Powerball tonight than there are of the Clintons being held accountable for this - or anything for that matter. I have completely, 100% lost faith in the “justice” system.


37 posted on 07/27/2016 6:08:07 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Mouton
It is time to burn this system to the ground and start over.

It's time to surround their buildings and dare them to come out.

38 posted on 07/27/2016 6:08:16 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: All
POINTS TO PONDER---the buzz is The Clinton Foundation applied for and received tax-exempt status to raise funds for the Clinton Library. It was NEVER approved as a tax-exempt organization to raise funds for other purposes....as it does so diligently.

CHECK IT OUT--CLINTON FOUNDATION WEB SITE Peruse 276 web pages of obscure programs all of them vehicles to raise money. All of them expecting payback w/ Hillary in the WH.

LOCATED
1271 Avenue of the Americas 42nd Floor
New York, NY 10020
212-348-8882
WEB SITE http://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative

Paraphrasing VDHanson ....lurid revelations indicate the Clinton Foundation is a huge money-laundering operation fuelling the Clintons affluent lifestyle and their political ambitions.....with well-paid sinecures for the hydra-headed Clinton retinue flitting around w/ scads of money. The serial cover-ups and financial legerdemain are the result of greed and the Clintons naked buck-raking.......

39 posted on 07/27/2016 6:11:03 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PACE A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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To: All
The do-gooder Clintons calculatedly morphed into "The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Family Foundation" ..... giving them even more fund-raising capabilities w/ a friendly "family" aura.

"Do-goodism" is the Clintons' passport into the deep pockets of numerous global entities. The avaricious Clintons devised hundreds of obscure programs to collect billions.....bragging about do-goodism, how the money was supposedly dispersed to "assist" endless charitable projects. ..

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Hillary/s State Dept emails were found on the Clinton Foundation server, a valuable commodity on the global market...forget about imperiling our ntl security. Not to forget the State Dept's contractor fund misplaced $6 billion---just evaporated into thin air on Hillary's watch.

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Time to examine the Clintons money-laundering operation. When L/E looked at Jeffrey Epstein's Orgy Island pedophile case, they found Bill Clinton and pal Doug Band w/ 20 phone nos and email addresses. L/E recognizes this as a classic money-laundering MO. Bill Clinton was an inveterate globe-trotter w/ do-goodism as his passport to the world.....secret accounts, business interests, and other evidence of money laundering, must be everywhere.

40 posted on 07/27/2016 6:11:44 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PACE A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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