Posted on 06/29/2025 7:03:37 AM PDT by Racketeer
The brother-in-law of Vice President Kamala Harris appears to have engineered the greatest transfer of taxpayer dollars to left-wing groups in the history of the United States.
Tony West, who is the husband of Harris’ sister Maya, served as the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division and awarded massive settlements to groups aligned with the Democrats, even when the Department of Justice appeared to be winning the cases, The New York Post reported.
“Until 1977, Congress had to approve any settlement of a civil suit against the Federal government over $100,000,” The Post reported.
But facing numerous cases the cap was removed and the DOJ was, in essence, given a blank check to pay anyone it wanted as much as it wanted from the a fund it created called “The Judgment Fund.”
The pool of money is shrouded in secrecy and the data that is does share does not include recipients, the facts of the cases and frequently even the attorneys involved in the cases.
West took over the department in 2009, when then-President Obama was in the White House, and that is when it got interesting, The Post reported, adding:
Once West arrived, his deputy emailed colleagues asking “can you explain to Tony the best way to allocate some money toward an organization of our choosing?”
Settlements became the vehicle for paying off political allies.
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Maybe a DODGE related entity should be created that has one mission: Compare federal employee salaries vs. actual income, and/or federal salaries vs. net worth. Anything X% over their salary should be subject to a ‘Hey luuucy you have some ‘splaining to do”. Anything over Y% should be a colonoscopy level audit.
Very happy if Federal employees are wise with investments and other lawful sources of income, but for others betraying trust. . . prosecute and punish heavily.
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I was working on a $2+ billion court case against Johnson & Johnson when Eric Holder interjected on behalf of Obama administration and reduced the settlement by a half billion dollars in exchange for J&J paying large contributions to his designated non-profits.
This has been going on for years.
Democrats being democrats. They can’t be expected to spend their own money
Democrat party mind set no surprise
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This literally made me sick. He should be strung up, and so should everyone who enabled this massive theft.
He belongs in prison
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