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Obama Structured Payments to Iran to Avoid 2008 Law (Vanity)
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Posted on 08/24/2016 9:22:36 PM PDT by TigerClaws

Obama made another $1.3 billion in payments to Iran. But they were done in a strange way. $99,999,999 payments.

This seemed odd. But there was a law they were circumventing. Classic criminal structuring.

Proof:

Judgment fund is capped at $100,000,000. It was structuring pure and simple.

http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1580&context=jcl

Transaction can be found here:

http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=14_xrmpzz.png

Source:

https://jfund.fms.treas.gov/jfradSearchWeb/JFPymtSearchAction.do

"The Judgment Fund is the mechanism Congress established to pay most settlements and judgments against the federal government. The Fund, originally created in 1956 and limited then to paying judgments of $100,000 or less"....

"Congress expected that ninety-eight percent of judgments would fall within that limit." [The Judgment Fund] is “a permanent, indefinite appropriation for the satisfaction of judgments, awards, and compromise settlements against the United States.” The Judgment Fund is available only under specific circumstances, but when available it makes payments without any review by Congress. The government uses it to pay out billions of dollars every year, yet there is no practical way for Congress or the public to track where Judgment Fund money goes.

The Constitution [states] in Clause 7 of Article I, Section 9: “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law....” [In the 2008 Farm Bill,] Congress set the maximum amount to be paid under the new statute, and appropriated for that purpose, $100,000,000.

Structuring is a crime if citizens do it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring#Background

Finally, the justification for the cash payment was we 'couldn't wire the money.' But then we did.

So why the cash?

Will Congress or anyone hold the administration responsible for shredding the law yet again?


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: iran; obama
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1 posted on 08/24/2016 9:22:36 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Another impeachable offense


2 posted on 08/24/2016 9:25:22 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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State Dept.: We couldn’t wire transfer money to Iran
Spokesman says there’s no banking relationship in place

http://www.wyff4.com/politics/state-dept-we-couldnt-wire-transfer-money-to-iran/41038906


3 posted on 08/24/2016 9:26:37 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Good job.


4 posted on 08/24/2016 9:27:32 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: TigerClaws

BKMK


5 posted on 08/24/2016 9:29:24 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: TigerClaws
MASSIVE FRAUD! To skirt a limit set in a 2008 law, the Obama administration structured the $1.3 billions in payments to Iran in 13 transactions of $99,999,999.99 each


https://i.sli.mg/XRMpzZ.png

6 posted on 08/24/2016 9:29:56 PM PDT by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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To: TigerClaws

Outstanding research.


7 posted on 08/24/2016 9:35:04 PM PDT by Ray76 (Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo!)
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To: TigerClaws; drudge

Pinging Drudge!


8 posted on 08/24/2016 9:36:18 PM PDT by amorphous
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To: proust

Do this with your own accounts and end up in prison, broke, or dead. Or all.


9 posted on 08/24/2016 9:36:36 PM PDT by combat_boots (MSM: We lie to you sheep at the slaughterhouse to keep you calm during slaughter)
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To: TigerClaws

Structuring!

Lock him up!


10 posted on 08/24/2016 9:38:27 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: TigerClaws
And if I "structure" bank withdrawals or deposits to be less than a certain amount at which they are reported to the KGBIRS I will get IRS agents at my door and my accounts frozen or confiscated and maybe go to jail.
11 posted on 08/24/2016 9:39:06 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: TigerClaws

Great work


12 posted on 08/24/2016 9:41:02 PM PDT by combat_boots (MSM: We lie to you sheep at the slaughterhouse to keep you calm during slaughter)
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To: atc23

Another missed opportunity knock, knock, knocking on history’s door.
The GOPe is too afraid of their own shadow to think of doing anything so bold. They may have people like Gowdy or Issa yap their yapper, and furrow their brows about it, but not much else. I know that now.


13 posted on 08/24/2016 9:41:34 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: TigerClaws

The most transparent administration ever skirting the law, as usual.


14 posted on 08/24/2016 9:41:52 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: lee martell

The GOP is useless. They’re hiding with Hillary.


15 posted on 08/24/2016 9:43:30 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: TigerClaws

Meanwhile, if you withdraw 4000 one day, and 7000 the next, you’ll be charged with structuring your transactions to avoid the 10,000 limit.


16 posted on 08/24/2016 9:48:30 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
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To: headstamp 2
No, they are very useful for Obama. The GOP are co-conspirators.
17 posted on 08/24/2016 9:48:51 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: TigerClaws

Just doing what he has to do to keep the dough rolling in to his Muzzie pals.


18 posted on 08/24/2016 9:49:13 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: TigerClaws

Whether or not history will hold the Obama administration accountable will depend on whether or not that history is written in English.


19 posted on 08/24/2016 9:50:55 PM PDT by HarborSentry
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To: goldbux

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20 posted on 08/24/2016 9:50:56 PM PDT by goldbux (When you're odd the odds are with you.)
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