Maya and Tony West----Kamala's sister and husband.
Posted on 08/23/2024 5:56:27 PM PDT by lowbridge
Then head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, he invented a new form of what 19th-early 20th centuries Tammany boss George Washington Plunkett famously called “Honest Graft.”
It was simple.
Until 1977, Congress had to approve any settlement of a civil suit against the Federal government over $100,000.
This preserved the Constitutional requirement that Congress control the government’s purse.
But in that year, seeking relief from the burgeoning volume of suits to review, Congress removed the cap, handing the Justice Department a permanent blank check to pay settlements unilaterally, in any amount, out of an account known as the Judgment Fund.
Run by the Treasury Department, the Judgment Fund’s secrecy is so complete that our often-penetrated CIA might study it for lessons.
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Then, in 2009, Tony West took over the department’s Civil Division, the division that litigates and settles lawsuits.
Once West arrived, his deputy emailed colleagues asking “can you explain to Tony the best way to allocate some money toward an organization of our choosing?”
Settlements became the vehicle for paying off political allies.
For example, in late 2010, after a Supreme Court victory, DOJ lawyers were on the cusp of winning a decade-long fight against discrimination claims by 91 Hispanic and female farmers.
That’s when West intervened and, as The New York Times put it, “engineered a stunning turnabout.”
DOJ agreed to a $1.33 billion settlement which included thousands of farmers who had never claimed bias.
The deal was made over the “vehement objections” of the department’s career lawyers.
The Times’s investigative report described West’s settlement as a “runaway train, driven by racial politics . . . and law firms that stand to gain more than $130 million in fees.”
The projected settlement size ballooned to over $4.4 billion as additional plaintiffs were added, including Native American
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Government as a Service
GaaS
Well said!
Hey, it’s all in the family for D.C. politicians on both sides of the aisle in Congress. They all enhance their family’s financial profiles, as well as their biggest donors.
In Chicago it is called walking around money. This sounds more like running a marathon.
This deserves a whole lot more than three responses.
We are forward to our own now. Let the left hang together, they seem to have it down to a Science.
Ping
So her B-I-L is where Kamalabla gets her blackness from. Hmmmmm. I guess she is entitled to her “I’m Shickenchit! Here’s My Race Card to Prove It” race card.
Just look at the Clinton crime cartel.
And they never got punished for any of it. Not to mention they're still scamming people for money, and likely still laundering it too. They had a big thing going with the Chi-coms funding their campaigns.
The house is (by existing law) not allowed to vote away its power? This being a prime example as to why. 50 years of litigious larceny all because the House couldn’t be bothered to do its job. Good God.
Maya and Tony West----Kamala's sister and husband.
any one shocked, the corruption of these people are par for the coarse. This stops when they are prosecuted and jailed, funny
Thanks for posting. Hard-working Americans taxed to fund these criminals. Disgusting.
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