Posted on 05/22/2013 3:24:14 PM PDT by maggief
When heading the FEC’s enforcement office in the late 90’s, the beleaguered IRS official was accused of failing to investigate a Democratic fundraiser. “When it recommended not pursuing the allegations against Mr. Glicken, the FEC staff specifically cited his close ties to the Vice-President, Vice-President Gore,” Dan Burton (R-IN) said at the hearing.
The IRS scandal currently engulfing Washington isn’t the only episode in which Lois Lerner, the embattled head of the agency’s tax-exempt organizations office, has come under fire for playing partisan politics in a nonpartisan entity.
In 1998, while heading the Federal Election Commission’s enforcement office, she was accused by the House Committee On Oversight and Government Reform of failing to investigate a fundraiser who had connections to then-Vice President Al Gore.
The committee alleged the FEC failed to investigate Democratic fundraiser Howard Glicken, who was accused of soliciting contributions from a German national named Thomas Kramer, because of his affiliation with Gore.
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
“No controlling legal authority”
I’m guessing the political speech and “walking around money” at Black churches somehow escaped his notice as well.
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/gro/hgoFEC.000/hgoFEC_0f.htm
FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS: FOREIGN CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND OTHER FECA VIOLATIONS
HEARING
before the
COMMITTEE ON
GOVERNMENT REFORM
AND OVERSIGHT
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
...
Hearing held on March 31, 1998
Statement of:
Thomas, Scott E., Vice Chairman, Federal Election Commission; Lawrence M. Noble, General Counsel, Federal Election Commission; Lois Lerner, Associate General Counsel, Federal Election Commission, and Jose Rodriguez, Staff Attorney, Federal Election Commission, assigned to the investigation of Thomas Kramer
MARCH 31, 1998
Lois better have serious money put away to cover legal bills. I suspect for this year alone....she will pay out $30k. And if dragged into an actual court-case....it might require $100k easily. That’s going to eat up her TSP (401k account).
Build a prison on Plum Island for this special kind of scum.
“The power to tax is the power to destroy.”
-JOHN MARSHALL McCulloch v. Maryland
Surprise, surprise!
Isn’t Algor a member of the Iced Tea Party?
To: STARWISE
And this:
Media Research Center piece
" -- "Gore Friend Charged With Violating Law In 1993 FundRaising" announced another July 10 Post headline. Reporter George Lardner Jr. began:
"Miami businessman Howard Glicken, a prominent Democratic fundraiser and friend of Vice President Gore, was charged yesterday with illegally soliciting and laundering $20,000 in foreign money in 1993 for Democratic Senate campaigns.
"Government officials and Glicken's Miami lawyer, Ed Shohat, said Glicken has agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act cited in a criminal information filed in U.S. District Court here by the Justice Department's campaign finance task force...."
7 posted on Friday, October 03, 2003 1:25:17 AM by STARWISE
“German national Thomas Kramer” apparently lives and operates in the United Arab Emirates.
He’s also got a luxurious place in Miami where he has held an “Arabian nights” party...
Penniless Miami PLayboy Thomas Kramer Parties Lavishly
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/penniless-miami-playboy-thomas-kramer-parties-lavishly/story?id=22290263
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