JUDICIAL WATCH FIGHTS CLINTON IRS ATTEMPTED AUDIT

Judicial Watch ^ | April 18, 2002

[FreedominJesusChrist]

For Immediate Release

Apr 18, 2002

Press Office: 202-646-5172

JUDICIAL WATCH FIGHTS CLINTON IRS ATTEMPTED AUDIT

IRS OFFICIAL ADMITS: “WHAT DO YOU EXPECT WHEN YOU SUE THE PRESIDENT?”

(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the non-profit educational foundation that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it was fighting in court an audit attempt instituted by the Clinton IRS in retaliation for Judicial Watch’s litigation against President Clinton. Judicial Watch first received notice of an attempted IRS audit on October 9, 1998, a few days after its “Interim Impeachment Report,” which called for Bill Clinton’s impeachment for misuse of the IRS, was officially made part of the Congressional record. The IRS’s initial audit letter demanded that Judicial Watch “[p]rovide the names and addresses of the directors and their relationship to any political party or political groups.” In January, 1999, an IRS official admitted to Judicial Watch representatives, in the context of the propriety of the audit, “What do you expect when you sue the President?” Another IRS official admitted in June, 1999, that the political affiliations of Judicial Watch’s directors is a factor in any IRS audit.

After Judicial Watch scored legal victories against the Clinton Administration, Judicial Watch received audit notices and warnings from the IRS. For instance, immediately following its uncovering of the Clinton-Gore White House e-mail scandal in February, 2000, Judicial Watch lawyers received a call from an IRS official to inform them that Judicial Watch was still on the IRS’s “radar screen.” The IRS finally agreed to defer on deciding whether to audit Judicial Watch until after the Clinton Administration ended. Despite this agreement, in one of the last acts of the Clinton Administration, the IRS sent Judicial Watch another audit notice on January 8, 2001. The IRS also sent new audit notices throughout 2001 after Judicial Watch criticized IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti. Rossotti is a Clinton appointee who “inexplicably” continues to serve under President Bush. In addition to presiding over the audits of perceived critics of the Clinton Administration, Judicial Watch requested criminal and civil investigations of Rossotti for his criminal conflict of interest in holding stock in a company he founded, AMS, while it did business with the IRS.

Judicial Watch now is fighting the attempted audit in federal courts in the District of Columbia and Maryland. As Robert Novak reports in his April 18th column, despite repeated requests to Attorney General Ashcroft to investigate, his Bush Justice Department has thus far refused to do so. (See Judicial Watch's letter to Attorney General John Aschroft) Instead, in the context of Judicial Watch’s lawsuit against the Cheney Energy Task Force, a Bush Administration official told Novak, “I don't know what we are going to do with this Klayman.” A copy of Judicial Watch’s complaint against IRS officials is available by clicking here.

“Judicial Watch has no objection to IRS audits at the proper time and place, under correct, non-political circumstances. We have nothing to hide. But when we were told that we were being audited because we sued Bill Clinton, we had no choice but to stand up and fight in court. Now, for its own reasons, the Bush Administration is content to let Clinton appointee Rossotti continue to harass Judicial Watch. Our lawsuits in response are intended not only to protect Judicial Watch, but are for the good of all Americans,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.

© Copyright 1997-2002, Judicial Watch, Inc.

[goldilucky]

Did you know he's been barred from several judge's courtrooms?

I knew he was barred from one judge's courtroom. Could you give me the website on this info? I'd be curious to check the judges profiles. They all have them you know.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

*GIGGLE* I don't know about you, but I'm getting my boots out. It's approaching dangerous depths now.

[goldilucky]

I typed and have shorthand background. I wrote about 45 wpm in shorthand. type about 45 wpm. Almost an outdated skill. Thank goodness I held onto my typewriter. Never know when the computer will go down.

[goldilucky]

I keep my boots on all the time.

[Howlin]

In 1997 US District Judge Denny Chin of New York City imposed sanctions on Klayman and an associate after they questioned his impartiality in a commercial case unrelated to Klayman's anti-Clinton lawsuits. After an unfavorable ruling, Klayman and his associate had sent a letter with a conspiratorial and racist subtext to Judge Chin, an Asian-American. The letter noted that Judicial Watch had filed a lawsuit claiming the Clinton administration, a Clinton appointee named John Huang, and "other persons in the Asian and Asian-American communities," were involved in illegal fundraising activities. According to the AP report:

The letter to Chin mentioned that the judge, too, was a Clinton appointee, and asked him to tell the lawyers whether he knew and had dealings with Huang and others involved in the Judicial Watch litigation over Democratic campaign.83

[Amelia]

I keep my boots on all the time.

I find that they're very uncomfortable to sleep in, and they really make a mess of the sheets.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

Yes, I do know all of that. I have done my research too. You need to understand that when Judicial Watch started in 1994, the first couple of years were pretty hard and it seemed to really be a shoe-string operation at first. Obviously, it is not anymore.

As for the other subject. There is no doubt in my mind that that David Keene will write you back, but it should be obvious right now that he will not admit to Judicial Watch's charges.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

I find that they're very uncomfortable to sleep in, and they really make a mess of the sheets.

Yeah........I like to live life on the edge. I risk taking them off for the sake of comfort and hygiene.

[Amelia]

have shorthand background

REALLY? I thought that went out 30 years ago.

[Howlin]

You did research? Hunh

Did you find this:

You see, in 1997, they finally started declaring their income and assets because they were putatively over $25,000 each. On their IRS filings in 1997, Judicial Watch claimed that they had $64,236 in assets and $67,919 in income. Again, if their web site is to be believed, they were spending about $10,000 per deposition again in 1997, so they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars during that year. In fact, at one point their pleas for donations claimed that in 1997, Judicial Watch was spending close to $100,000 per month! Larry Klayman likes to get his sub-penis out there almost as often as Ken Starr. Of course, poor Little Larry is so underfunded he really needs your help. 

Whoops! What's wrong with this picture boys and girls?! Well, if you visit the Scaife Family Foundations web site you will see that Larry's extremist buddy whom many believe is the money behind the VRWC, Richard Mellon Scaife, saw to it that Judicial Watch was given $550,000 in 1997. Even if we assume that the Scaife donation was the only income that Judicial Watch had during 1997, we are curious to know what happened to the $482,081 that went undeclared with the IRS. Where'd it go Larry? 

[Howlin]

but it should be obvious right now that he will not admit to Judicial Watch's charges.

Isn't that just Larry's luck. Nobody will ever admit to his charges.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

I do not believe that. What source is that from?

[Amelia]

hmmmm....maybe there's more to this than political bias?

[goldilucky]

Yes, yes, I do remember reading about this.

What Klayman should have done was file criminal charges against the judge. This can be done but because those federal judges think that they own OUR courts, that they can control the attorneys like Klayman because he is licensed to practice in THEIR courtroom when it is OUR courts. Those federal judges are civil servants i.e. they work for us taxpayers. We are the MASTER over them. And as long as there are litigants like myself and others around we will make them see that light.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Where'd it go Larry?

Inquiring minds want to know. I guess the IRS does too.

[Amelia]

What Klayman should have done was file criminal charges against the judge.

Yes, but remember, Larry can't file criminal charges, only civil ones. That's why he needs Ashcroft, isn't it?

[Howlin]

I'm sure you don't.

[goldilucky]

Yes it is almost an outdated skill but I still have it implanted in memory since highschool. I took shorthand for a year in high school back in 1982-83. I even wrote "White Christmas" in shorthand.

[Registered]

Are you really cutting and pasting from liberal whack-job sites? What's the source? You know better than that.

[Howlin]

Scaife's Money Aids Judicial Watch

By Brooks Jackson/CNN

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, June 10) -- Larry Klayman, leader of the group Judicial Watch, calls himself a conservative watchdog. He denies he is in it for the money and says he is just after the truth about the Clinton Administration.

"I take it to heart when I see the government not telling the truth, not doing the right thing and covering up," Klayman says.

Klayman subpoenaed Clinton fund-raiser John Huang in 1996. This year he forced former Clinton aide Harold Ickes to testify and got Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon to admit under oath he leaked damaging information about Clinton accuser Linda Tripp.

Tax records show Klayman's tax-exempt group, Judicial Watch, was just a shoestring operation in 1996, with total revenues of less than $68,000.

But now it comes out that Judicial Watch received $550,000 in 1997 from the Carthage Foundation, funded by Pittsburgh billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.

Scaife is intensely conservative and intensely anti-Clinton. He gave $2.6 million to American Spectator magazine to dig up Clinton dirt, then cut off the money when it published a story he didn't like.

But Klayman says Scaife's money comes with no strings attached, and Scaife isn't paying them to beat up on President Bill Clinton.

"Absolutely not," Klayman said. "Our cases were filed long before we received any support from the Carthage Foundation."

Klayman has sued the Commerce Department, the Justice Department, the White House, the FBI and even Hillary Rodham Clinton.

He is a frequent guest and dependable Clinton-basher on CNN and other networks, including a network linked to the conservative Free Congress Foundation. Scaife gave it nearly $1.7 million last year.

Clinton allies were silent about the news that Scaife is financing Klayman. Some said they saw nothing wrong. Others suggested they want to avoid any more Klayman subpoenas.