Posted on 01/31/2018 10:51:23 AM PST by Titus-Maximus
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released new Department of Justice (DOJ) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) documents that include an official “DOJ Recap” report detailing an October 2010 meeting between Lois Lerner, DOJ officials and the FBI to plan for the possible criminal prosecution of targeted nonprofit organizations for alleged illegal political activity.
The newly obtained records also reveal that the Obama DOJ wanted IRS employees who were going to testify to Congress to turn over documents to the DOJ before giving them to Congress. Records also detail how the Obama IRS gave the FBI 21 computer disks, containing 1.25 million pages of confidential IRS returns from 113,000 nonprofit social 501(c)(4) welfare groups – or nearly every 501(c)(4) in the United States – as part of its prosecution effort. According to a letter from then-House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, “This revelation likely means that the IRS – including possibly Lois Lerner – violated federal tax law by transmitting this information to the Justice Department.”
The documents were produced subsequent to court orders in two Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits: Judicial Watch v. Internal Revenue Service (No. 1:14-cv-01956) and Judicial Watch v. Department of Justice (No. 1:14-cv-01239).
The new IRS documents include a October 11, 2010 “DOJ Recap” memo sent by IRS Exempt Organizations Tax Law Specialist Siri Buller to Lerner and other top IRS officials explaining an October 8 meeting with representatives from the Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section and “one representative from the FBI” to discuss the possible criminal prosecution of nonprofit organizations for alleged political activity:
On October 8, 2010, Lois Lerner, Joe Urban [IRS Technical Advisor, TEGE], Judy Kindell [top aide to Lerner], Justin Lowe [Technical Advisor to the Commissioner of Tax-Exempt and Government Entities], and Siri Buller met with the section chief and other attorneys from the Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section, and one representative from the FBI, to discuss recent attention to the political activity of exempt organizations.
The section’s attorneys expressed concern that certain section 501(c) organizations are actually political committees “posing” as if they are not subject to FEC law, and therefore may be subject to criminal liability. The attorneys mentioned several possible theories to bring criminal charges under FEC law. In response, Lois and Judy eloquently explained the following points:
Under section 7805(b), we may only revoke or modify an organization’s exemption retroactively if it omitted or misstated a material fact or operated in a manner materially different from that originally represented.
If we do not have these misrepresentations, the organization may rely on our determination it is exempt. However, the likelihood of revocation is diminished by the fact that section 501(c)(4)-(c)(6) organizations are not required to apply for recognition of exemption.
We discussed the hypothetical situation of a section 501(c)(4) organization that declares itself exempt as a social welfare organization, but at the end of the taxable year has in fact functioned as a political organization. Judy explained that such an organization, in order to be in compliance, would simply file Form 1120-POL and paying tax at the highest corporate rate. Lois stated that although we do not believe that organizations which are subject to a civil audit subsequently receive any type of immunity from a criminal investigation, she will refer them to individuals from CI who can better answer that question. She explained that we are legally required to separate the civil and criminal aspects of any examination and that while we do not have EO law experts in CI, our FIU agents are experienced in coordinating with CI.
The attorneys asked whether a change in the law is necessary, and whether a three-way partnership among DOJ, the FEC, and the IRS is possible to prevent prohibited activity by these organizations. Lois listed a number of obstacles to the attorneys’ theories:
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She pointed to Revenue Ruling 2004-6, which was drafted in light of the electioneering communication rules before they were litigated.
Just prior this meeting, the IRS began the process of providing the FBI confidential taxpayer information on nonprofit groups. An IRS document confirms the IRS supplied the FBI with 21 disks containing 1.25 million pages of taxpayer records:
Dinesh D’Souza
DJT and his generals have to do it all.
Lois & Co make Nixon and his team look like choirboys. If DOJ and FBI were doing their jobs these folks would have been indicted and convicted by now. But wait- they would have to prosecute themselves.
How Stalin-esque!
LurkedLongEnough :" Not sure how relevant this is since Sessions settled IRS lawsuits back in October 2017 -
can they be reopened? "
Cannot be reopened if there has been a court decision in the matter.
I don't recall any final determination, just an assumption that the court went along with the DOJ decision to not further prosecute.
About ten of them have announced retirement in recent weeks.
Not because they are involved in this (though they may have tickley dickey scandals nipping at their heels) but rather because they don't have the stones to stay at their posts and do the work necessary to bring down Hillary, Obama, Comey, Lynch, Lerner, Rice, Powers, Huma, Valjar, Holder and others and see them marched off to prison.
What does Obama, the Clintons and their democrat servants have to do before they get charged and prosecuted, start killing conservative Americans out in broad daylight?
That’s the FBI’s job.
I had a friend at the IRS who told me that they can’t even look at info on someone in the computer unless they’ve been assigned a case with that particular taxpayer. They get in big trouble for doing that.
Obviously it depends on how high up you are.
I believe the IRS has already paid a settlement to some or all of these groups.
I never thought of it this way. So infuriating
Not because they are involved in this (though they may have tickley dickey scandals nipping at their heels) but rather because they don’t have the stones to stay at their posts and do the work necessary to bring down Hillary, Obama, Comey, Lynch, Lerner, Rice, Powers, Huma, Valjar, Holder and others and see them marched off to prison.
Well then we better make sure that they’re all replaced with young up-and-comer Conservatives with balls......yes, even the women that want the deserters seats.
You are correct, but what was done was illegal. People need to go to jail.
You mean YOU just found out about it. People who were paying attention have known these things for years.
I keep saying it, but I bet when all is said and done, the research, the investigations - may take years - but at the end, I bet we're going to discover Obama weaponized all of the IC, with Clapper and mainly Brennan as his 'reporting in' lapdogs. Utilizing the hidden HAMMER computer system, Obama's private spying network, I bet they mined everything from day one of his administration on every political opponent. And further, I bet this was Valerie's idea. Regardless, it all points to the Obama Spying Scandal as the biggest scandal in the history of our Republic.
The Republicans are blackmail-bait.
Look at John Roberts.... HE MADE THE FIX HAPPEN.
What evidence besides Free Republic dogma do you have that they are not?
Mueller was FBI Director from 2001 - 2013.
He was up to his eyeballs in this.
No wonder Lois Lerner got a pass on being prosecuted at the time. Mueller and others at the FBI would have gone down with her, so she had no reason to think she’d be prosecuted. That just changed.
when everything comes out I don’t see how a lot of Obama appointees don’t end up in jail.
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