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Biden gives DOJ green light to resume Obama-era 'slush fund' payouts to liberal groups
foxnews ^ | 1/20/2021 | By Ronn Blitzer

Posted on 01/20/2021 5:20:10 PM PST by bitt

Justice Department had ceased the practice early in President Trump's administration

President-elect Joe Biden is calling for the Justice Department to look into reinstating a controversial Obama-era practice that allowed prosecutors to make settlement agreements that resulted in defendants paying outside groups instead of victims or the government.

The Trump administration had put an end to these payments following a 2017 memo from then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions which was reflected in the Justice Department's manual.

"When the federal government settles a case against a corporate wrongdoer, any settlement funds should go first to the victims and then to the American people — not to bankroll third-party special interest groups or the political friends of whoever is in power," Sessions said in 2017.

A Republican-backed bill known as the "Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2017" would have made the practice illegal.

"Congress must permanently end the abuses Obama's Justice Department exploited to use settlements to funnel money to their liberal friends," then-Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who sponsored the bill in the House, said in 2017.

Goodlatte's bill never became law, but the Sessions-era DOJ policy did become an official agency rule that officially went into effect in December 2020. The rule allows for limited exceptions for "an otherwise lawful payment or loan that provides restitution or compensation to a victim," situations where "a trusted third party" is needed to deliver funds due to concerns over foreign corruption, payments for legal or other professional services related to the case, and payments that are otherwise "expressly authorized" by a statute or regulation

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; 501c3taxcheats; biden; democratslushfund; doj; impeachbiden; slushfund; taxdollarsatwork; youpayforthis

1 posted on 01/20/2021 5:20:10 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 01/20/2021 5:20:28 PM PST by bitt (Joe Biden has managed to take everything that is wrong with DC bureacracy and fit it into 1 cabinet)
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To: bitt

Stolen elections have consequences


3 posted on 01/20/2021 5:22:03 PM PST by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: bitt

And we tolerate this.


4 posted on 01/20/2021 5:22:18 PM PST by RBW in PA
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To: RBW in PA

ACORN is back!

https://youtu.be/aGcWh2FEK1E


5 posted on 01/20/2021 5:37:29 PM PST by TeddyRay ( I am a Chump 4 Trump)
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To: bitt

Here in America and coming to every blue city for their payments due to electing Hoe and Joe!

6 posted on 01/20/2021 5:38:03 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC and Ameriica on election/coup/night, Tues., Nov. 03, 2020!)
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To: bitt

https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3927187/posts?page=15#15


7 posted on 01/20/2021 5:42:10 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: bitt

Ping


8 posted on 01/20/2021 5:43:42 PM PST by scouter (As for me and my household... We will serve the LORD.)
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bookmark


9 posted on 01/20/2021 5:43:51 PM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: bitt
Duh! #ElectionsHaveConsequences
10 posted on 01/20/2021 5:44:18 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: bitt

I’m sure Soros is relieved. He couldn’t have been happy having
to shell it out over the last four years, if he in fact did.


11 posted on 01/20/2021 5:45:44 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Biden: the Wizard of nLaws > the L is silent because Democrats don't recognize laws.)
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To: 2banana

It is time for “our” lawfare to start. Make absolutely sure that the rescinding of this rule is done by the book. The APA was used against PDJT every time so it is only fair that we file lawsuits to ensure that they follow all the procedures. As soon as they try to settle a case using this sick process there should be a lawsuit challenging it. File in conservative courts in order to get a conservative judge just like they did with all of their lawsuits.


12 posted on 01/20/2021 5:56:22 PM PST by usnavy_cop_retired (Retiree in the P.I. living as a legal immigrant)
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To: bitt

Bump


13 posted on 01/20/2021 6:11:49 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: 2banana

No kidding


14 posted on 01/20/2021 6:26:58 PM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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To: bitt

In other words the continued slush fund weaponization of both the DOJ and the FBI against the People.

Feed the predators and starve the righteous.

Alinsky is back in town.


15 posted on 01/21/2021 1:12:59 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: RBW in PA

Wonder who approves the spending of that money. I thought Congress did that job. Maybe they did in one of their unread bills.


16 posted on 01/21/2021 3:30:42 AM PST by abbastanza
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To: bitt
"Goodlatte's bill never became law,"

Y0?

Cocaine China Ditch's fault? A certain PRyno?

17 posted on 01/21/2021 6:12:03 PM PST by Paladin2
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