ABOVE THE LAW....(are Obama's tax cheats driving Rahm's hidden agenda?)

NY POST ^ | 2/8/09 | EDITORIAL

[Liz]

Labor Secy-designate Hilda Solis is Obama's latest appointee to fall afoul of the taxman.....As corny as it sounds, most Americans consider paying taxes an obligation of citizenship. Obama's Tax Rogues Gallery undermines that notion. It's hard to say what's more appalling: Obama's selection process - or what it says about the leadership class from which they've sprung.

[mad_as_he$$]

That is what makes me wonder who is pulling the strings and setting the stage. Has to be someone or an organization that can obtain access to both parties.

[Liz]

Here's Rahm pledging allegiance to the flag on inauguration day.

[sport]

....(are Obama's tax cheats driving Rahm's hidden agenda?)

You can bet the farm that they are.

[rigelkentaurus]

please, don't even think that the 40-50% of Americans, especially those who live in large cities, and are exempt from income taxes, will care one little bit that zero and this thugs don't pay taxes.

Anyone waiting for the great uprising about zero supports needs to wake up and smell the coffee. demonRAT voters are sheeple.

The only way out for the rest of us is a divorce - irreconcilable differences. Let the commie states go down the tubes and let's restore what is left of America. To think liberty, personal responsibility will ever return to the big urban cities is pure fantasy. We can never turn back socialism without a serious break with the past.

[Liz]

Where I live, you can request to have your property removed from the public website. Only an in-person visit to the county court house would yield any information. Perhaps Cook County is the same. And since the house has been placed in a trust, it is the trustee that pays the taxes, not the beneficiary - the would be no record of RE paying the taxes directly.

The sound of paper shredders....................

Here's the Chicago tax assessor on the topic: "Rahm Emanuel’s house being tax exempt is wholly inaccurate. Rep. Emanuel’s house in on the tax rolls, and he and Ms. Rule have paid the taxes on it. The Emanuel house sits on two lots. For tax purposes, the property is listed as 4232 N. Hermitage Ave. The PIN is 14-18-408-035-0000. As you can see, 4232 N. Hermitage came up as one of the addresses when you searched Emanuel’s block on our web site. 4228 N. Hermitage is listed as the mailing address on the tax records-----it is not at all uncommon for addresses to be merged for properties on two lots. According to the Cook County Treasurer’s web site, Emanuel and his wife paid $13,022.60 in property taxes this year." Sincerely, Eric W. Herman Director of Communications Cook County Assessor's Office

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KEEP IN MIND The Chicago county assessor is a high- ranking Democrat Party operative, and is surely biased.

This same assessor once carried the palatial home of Democrat Cong Luis Guiterrez on the tax rolls as a vacant lot and argued once the story was publicized that Guiterrez should not be penalized for a "clerical error" ....this was after Guiterrez paid minimal taxes for years and years, b/c Guiterrez' palatial home was listed as a vacant lot.

Rahm has two lots and pays the freight on a single bill and gets a tax break loophole that most of us would never be allowed and now the assessor tells us to be happy that multi-millionaire and Freddie Mac swiller Rahm Emanuel pays anything.

City and county Chicago governments are run by corrupt Dem machines for years, it's hardly surprising that Emmanuel managed to pulled off his "charitable organization" stunt successfully....then got a "clarification"

BTW, was Rahm's tax check backdated?

[gussiefinknottle]

where is this info coming from?

[Iron Munro]

Bill Clinton made the "Lewinski" mainstream, bringing it out of the Oral Oval Office and into the school buses, streets and clubs of America.

Now Obama is doing the same for cheating on your taxes. He is bringing tax cheats out of the closet and into the mainstream of America. If lying, cheating and freeloading on the backs of real taxpayers is acceptable behavior for high ranking Obama henchmen it must be good for the little people too.

How long before Joe Biden blurts out that it's patriotic to cheat on your taxes if you are a valuable, irreplaceable, public figure?

[Enterprise]

"It's hard to say what's more appalling: what the behavior of the quartet says about the Obama selection process - or what it says about the leadership class from which they've sprung."

Nothing hard about this. It's what we have always believed. Th Democrats are exempt from the rules for which they gleefully punish others.

[SERKIT]

The new “Daily COS”: Which tax cheat is Rahm recommending today? The more he does this, the IRS collections are going up. Thanks Rahm!

[reformedliberal]

Two lots and a house in Chicago and he pays $13k? I would love to see the taxes on the adjacent properties in that block. $13k sounds low for the property/location.

[penelopesire]

“BUT WAIT Obama’s COS Rahm Emanuel apparently lives tax free in a magnificent Chicago mansion owned by “The Rahm Emanuel and Amy Rule Charitable Foundation.” According to the Cook County Assessor’s website, the Chicago home of four-term Democrat Congressman and new White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, doesn’t exist........there seems to be no public record of Emanuel ever paying property taxes on this home.”

THIS NEEDS TO BE SCREAMED FROM THE ROOFTOPS!

[Liz]

The "Rahm Emanuel and Amy Rule Charitable Trust" was formed in 2002, when Rahm was first elected to Congress.

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What illegalities would be unearthed if Foundation principles had their past tax filings audited?

IRS TOLL-FREE 1-800-829-0433----you may remain anonymous.

EMAIL .......OAAG.Tax@tax.USDOJ.gov.

REFERENCE The IRS has reported that tax-exempt “foundations and charities” are the locus classicus for tax evasion and money laundering.

The IRS might look at the legal parameters of prosecutable crimes including making false statements to state and federal officials, filing falsified documents, obstruction of proceedings before state and federal agencies, fiduciary negligence, and obstruction of US justice.

The N/P's might have facilitated IRS fraud by integrating:

1. Secret control over N/P fund-raising committees.

2. Requiring only one signature on tax-exempt N/P bank checks.

3. Utilizing pre-signed tax-exempt bank checks.

4. Using secret bank accounts to keep secret the actual financial position of tax-exempt N/P's.

5. Assigning bank deposit and account reconciliation functions of tax-exempts to one person.

6. Conspiring to hide oversight of expenses and supporting vouchers from public view.

7. Having no outside auditor to review tax-exempt N/P's statements.

8. Cashing unusually large amounts of tax-exempt checks.

9. Having no official tax-exempt deposit and withdrawal control system.

Authorities might investigate Foundations' US Postal Service mailings, wire transfers, computer transfers, electronic submissions, and unregulated money transfers, and all bank transfers connected to secret tax-exempt non-profits’ bank accounts.

Fraudulent tax-exempt non-profit activities might have involved using checks passed from one account to another in multiple conspiracies to launder monies.

The stratagem could have been international in its scope due to worldwide connections.

Authorities might determine the extent to which Foundation principles colluded in schemes that may have included misusing reserve bank accounts, concealing transfers, inflating asset values and improperly accounting for transactions.

A formal inquiry should be conducted into tax-exempt Congress-related Foundations and financial activities with officers of publicly-held companies) including (1) Enron-style accounting frauds by manipulating N/P records, (2) bundling contributions into the pockets of politicians, (3) the extent to which networks of companies are financing political candidates in the names of business partners without their knowledge or consent, (4) the extent to which officers of publicly-held companies used accounting fraud to hide illegal campaign contributions, and, (5) the extent to which campaign donations exceeded campaign-finance limits.

Charges might include misappropriating funds to cover personal expenses, fraudulently overcharging for management services, diverting non-profit funds, then converting them to campaign accounts, or in the style of WorldCom greed spending thousands of non-profit dollars on organization credit cards for personal expenses.

A formal inquiry should be undertaken with respect to business dealings between recipients, employees and elected and appointed officials and the extent to which influence-peddling is taking place, and more specifically the extent to which relatives, associates, and principles of the Foundation and co-conspirators or subsets of them, directed political activities from tax-free non-profit organizations in illegal arrangements.

The BIGGEST FRAUDS are between foundation and foundation .....writing checks to each other (which is the MO for laundering tax-exempt monies).

Authorities need to determine the extent to which Foundation principles manipulated philanthropic transactions, such as:

(1) loans, the (2) sale, (3) exchange or (4) leasing of property to related organizations, and donors, and the extent to which organizations reported (5) "excess benefit transactions" on Form 990, and, (6) the extent to which executive pay properly accounted for with the IRS.

Foundation principles need to reveal the dimension of contributions these organizations that may have been illegally redirected to political activity and be requested to explain:

(1) how Foundation principles solicit non-profit contributions,

(2) how non-profit donations are made, and,

(3) the manner in which the Foundation allocated assets.

The Foundation should be asked for details about who inside, and outside, these organizations is soliciting contributions, how the various subcommittees are funded, and the extent to which the Foundation colluding to, perhaps, finance political campaigns surreptitiously, and are engaging in other illegal transactions.

[penelopesire]

Bookmark to do Monday!

[Liz]

Bill Clinton made "giving Lewinskis" mainstream........Now Obama is doing the same for cheating on taxes.....bringing tax cheats out of the closet and into the mainstream of America.

Excellent deconstruction.

Once in power, liberals disdain "tolerance and compassion, political correctness, equality under the law," and all the other glib liberal notions.

All of that does not apply to them......once in power.

Obama and Michelle and their crowd see themselves primarily as "deconstructionsists"------- the tearing down of traditional America.

That's why they sought out tax cheats for Cabinet appointments ----- tax evasion is the plusperfect way to tear down the Nation.

[Liz]

Great.

[ripley]

Seems that President Imanuel is becoming more and more powerful as the weeks drag on. Maybe he should spend some time thinking about whether he wants to be called “Your Highness”, “Your Excellency”, or “Great Acorn Father”.

IMHO

[KansasGirl]

[the ability for public citizens to file lawsuits against politicians for lying publicly in the context of their official duties]

You know, this is a good idea that I’ve never thought about it before. After all, politicians have a fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayer.

[Iron Munro]

That's why they sought out tax cheats for Cabinet appointments ----- tax evasion is the plusperfect way to tear down the Nation.

Thanks for the very thoughtful comment and insight.
You present another machiavellian facet to these actions that I had not yet considered - and it makes a lot of sense.

With the nominees he has brought forth, not only does Obama populate his cabinet and staff with proven members of the inner circle, co-conspirators, complete with shady pasts and skeletons to keep hidden, thus more trustworthy (crooks covering for crooks).

But, as you point out, he also gets the ancillary benefit of feeding the growing distrust and disconnect between Americans and our government, stricking another blow against our system that is built on trust and morality.

Recently, on another thread, Freeper "itsahoot" posted this quotation which is very fitting:

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.
Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

--October 11, 1798 John Adams
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[Eva]

Obama doesn’t care about the God fearin Black population. Solis was hand picked to be the Secretary of Labor by Andy Stern, the founder of the SEIU. You know, the Service Employee’s Union, the offshoot of ACORN, which was founded for the sole purpose of organizing the illegals? Her appointment is vital to Obama’s plan to unionize 30% of the US work force, the bottom 30%.

[maggief]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2127070/replies?c=75

Here’s the tax assessor post on the Illinois review article

Your posting about Rahm Emanuel’s house being tax exempt is wholly inaccurate. Rep. Emanuel’s house in on the tax rolls, and he and Ms. Rule have paid the taxes on it.

The Emanuel house sits on two lots. For tax purposes, the property is listed as 4232 N. Hermitage Ave. The PIN is 14-18-408-035-0000. As you can see, 4232 N. Hermitage came up as one of the addresses when you searched Emanuel’s block on our web site.

4228 N. Hermitage is listed as the mailing address on the tax records. Had you taken the trouble to contact the Assessor’s office, we could have told you that — and told you that it is not at all uncommon for addresses to be merged for properties on two lots.

According to the Cook County Treasurer’s web site, Emanuel and his wife paid $13,022.60 in property taxes this year.

Sincerely,

Eric W. Herman

Director of Communications

Cook County Assessor’s Office

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http://www.cookcountytreasurer.com/payment.aspx?ntopicid=3

Searching by above pin number:

2008 Tax Year Information - Payable in 2009
Tax Year: 2008 Tax Type: Current Tax Volume: 481 PCL: 2-06
Property Location
4232 N HERMITAGE AVE
CHICAGO, IL 60613-1104

(To update contact the Cook County Assessor’s Office at 312-443-7550.)
Mailing Information Exemption Information
RAHM EMANUEL/AMY RULE
4228 N HERMITAGE
CHICAGO, IL 60613-1104

(To update click here.)

Exemptions do not become effective until the 2nd installment.

For last year’s exemption data please scroll down to 2007 taxes due in 2008.

To check if you received exemptions on previous tax years, click here.
Tax Payment Information
Installment Tax Amount Billed Tax Due Date Last Payment Received Date Received
1st $6,511.30 03/03/2009 $0.00
Balance Due: $6,511.30
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THE CHARITABLE TRUST STILL NEEDS TO BE SCRUTINIZED, IMO!