Jeff Sessions Ending DOJ Handouts to Activist Groups ‘a Tremendous Victory’

Breitbart ^ | 06/12/17 | Dan Riehl

[Enlightened1]

President of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Schweizer, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXX host Raheem Kassam on Monday regarding Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to end Department of Justice handouts for leftist groups, which has come to be known as something of a “slush fund.”

As Breitbart News reported:

For decades, through a variety of initiatives, the DOJ has insisted on donations to third parties as part of the settlements it reaches with defendants, especially corporations. In the Obama administration, this practice took on the character of a “slush fund,” which funneled hundreds of millions of dollars from these corporate defendants and put it into the hands of non-government organizations.

Recipients have included left-wing “community organizer” groups such as the National Council of La Raza, or “The Race,” a Latino racial advocacy group that supports mass illegal immigration. Other recipients include the National Urban League, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, and NeighborWorks America, which is a congressionally chartered mortgage aid group that itself has come under widespread criticism.

“This is a tremendous victory people ought to be very encouraged by,” said Schweizer.

The idea got its start under Eric Holder as far back as the Clinton administration. “The problem is, it got distorted, as so many things do in Washington, DC,” added Schweizer. “And so rather than going to the victims of what a company might have done, they ended up giving it to activist groups. And many of these activist groups, like La Raza, like others, not only didn’t do things to alleviate the activity that had taken place, they actually used the money for things like voter registration.”

“These were politically active groups,” he added.

[Hugin]

Maybe Sessions could fine companies that hire illegals and use the money to build the wall?

[PGalt]

HOORAY AG Sessions

DEFUND socialist/totalitarian collectives, foreign and domestic.

[Socon-Econ]

Without a no-loopholes statutory prohibition, the Democrats will do it again when they take office.

[winner3000]

This is out and out fraud, and it is called a victory for just stopping it! I’ll call it a victory once whoever perpetrated this fraud is rotting in jail, but we know that nobody from prior administrations ever gets investigated!

[combat_boots]

Makes you wonder about some of the major events, BLM, etc., and whether these were funded.

[M Kehoe]

I will not get tired of winning.

5.56mm

[newgeezer]

The idea got its start under Eric Holder as far back as the Clinton administration

... suggesting the practice may have survived or thrived during the eight years of Bush43. Or, maybe John Ashcroft silently killed it, only to have Holder resurrect it.

Regardless, power corrupts and corruption runs deep.

[DungeonMaster]

... suggesting the practice may have survived or thrived during the eight years of Bush43. Or, maybe John Ashcroft silently killed it, only to have Holder resurrect it. Regardless, power corrupts and corruption runs deep.

What a cesspool!

The media attenuates liberal corruption by a factor of 10 and amplifies Republication corruption by a factor of 10 leaving people like my dad with the "They all do it" defense.