Posted on 07/27/2016 5:37:05 AM PDT by orchestra
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen referred congressional charges of corrupt Clinton Foundation “pay-to-play” activities to his tax agency’s exempt operations office for investigation, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
The request to investigate the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation on charges of “public corruption” was made in a July 15 letter by 64 House Republicans to the IRS, FBI and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). They charged the foundation is “lawless.”
The initiative is being led by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican who serves as the vice chairwoman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which oversees FTC. The FTC regulates public charities alongside the IRS.
The lawmakers charged the Clinton Foundation is a “lawless ‘pay-to-play’ enterprise that has been operating under a cloak of philanthropy for years and should be investigated.”
Koskinen’s July 22 reply came only a week after the House Republicans contacted the tax agency. It arrived to their offices Monday, the first opening day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
“We have forwarded the information you have submitted to our Exempt Organizations Program in Dallas,” Koskinen told the Republicans.
The Exempt Organization Program is the division of the IRS that regulates the operations of public foundations and charities. It’s the same division that was led by former IRS official Lois Lerner when hundreds of conservative, evangelical and tea party non-profit applicants were illegally targeted and harassed by tax officials.
Blackburn told TheDCNF she believes the IRS has a double standard because, “they would go after conservative groups and religious groups and organizations, but they wouldn’t be looking at the Clinton Foundation for years. It was as if they choose who they are going to audit and question. It’s not right.”
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Koskinen investigates Clinton?
Don’t make me laugh.
Only 64 House Republicans signed the letter. I think there are quite a few House and Senate members on both sides of the aisle that have their fingers in the cookie jar. If you are wondering why so many high profile Republicans are fighting Trump, look no further.
If I were a betting man, and I am, guys like a Jeff Flake, have been playing both sides and getting paid for it.
A complete setup, to declare them above board and blameless.
If Trump wins there really may be a serious investigation instead of this white wash.
Do you not understand the [/sarc] tag?
Corrupt IRS
Corrupt DOJ
Corrupt FBI
All to investigate a corrupt political entity, namely, the Clinton Foundation.
See how that works?
DISMANTLE the IRS (Internal Revenue of Socialists). Quit this kabuki theater, this charade, this pretense of law, this pretense of justice. Koskinen and Lerner should be in federal prison.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder
You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. - list of grievances; Declaration
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt,
7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game. This is an essential point, and happily is attended with no difficulty. A sufficient number, properly disposed, can alternately legislate and speculate, and speculate and legislate, and buy and sell, and sell and buy, until a due portion of the property of their constituents has passed into their hands…
8. (4) A great debt will require great taxes; great taxes, many taxgatherers and other officers; and all officers are auxiliaries of power.
10. “Divide and govern” is a maxim consecrated by the experience of ages, and should be familiar in its use to every politician…
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm
ZERO representation
More like launching a project to help them cover their tracks
Thanks to all posters.
The most evil government in the history of the republic.
BTTT!
Obama trying to secure a little control over the Clintons if Hillary pulls it off
They want to get it out of the way before Trump is President so Hillary and Bill can get away with another crime. Are we supposed to believe that the IRS will do anything to them when they target conservatives and get away with it because the government is filled with progressive liberal employees.
Foundation board member is a euphemism for money laundering scheme to create a high paying sinecure for millionaire/billionaire offspring. The whole Kennedy clan were employed in this fashion and were useless humans.
I thought they were doing it to shield her from a real investigation when Trump wins.
We have at least 64 clueless GOP representatives. The Justice Department, FTC, and particularly the Koskinen IRS are lawless. Our guys just launched the Whitewash.
Ah! Parable of the shrewd servant!
Agreed - the best way to do that is to support Trump in numbers that result in a clear mandate that gives some teeth to his Bully Pulpit. We can bet he will not be shy about using the Bully Pulpit so we need to ensure that the Congress has reason to sit up and listen.
IRS investigating a Clintoon or the Clintoon Foundation has to be the biggest joke of the decade.
This will be a bigger whitewash than Comey/Lynch and the email crimes.
They want to get the investigation out of the way under Obama in case Trump wins.
Crooked Hillary meets our corrupt political IRS....Yawn
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