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| IRS Launches Investigation of Clinton Foundation |
| 2016-07-27 |
| [Daily Caller] 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." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #15 Timing is more than curious. Just after Wiki says more leaks are coming and will in in include the CGI suddenly the IRS, the most crooked fed agency now after the civil rights division of DOJ, is investigating. How fortunate for Josh Ernest and the Clintonians to have the crutch of no comment during an investigation. Almost like they are anticipating a major scandal and damage control. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2016-07-27 13:24 |
| #14 "Confidence in federal agencies has taken a huge hit under Obama." In all fairness, I didn't have a whole lot of confidence in them before Bambi, #5 JQC. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2016-07-27 12:41 |
| #13 What Raj said. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-07-27 12:09 |
| #12 Koskinen, Comey...she has nothing to worry about. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-07-27 11:26 |
| #11 They're not going to do jack shit, and everyone knows it. What a sick fucking joke. |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-07-27 10:34 |
| #10 The investigation might be better served by this guy: Charles K. Ortel. His website has a great deal of information. Site. Ortel has done a lot of digging into this money-laundering organization. He also thinks that individual state investigations of the Foundation might be more fruitful than having the Feds do it. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-07-27 10:27 |
| #9 Clintons looking for an official white wash. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2016-07-27 10:03 |
| #8 We should know something definitive in say..... 3-4 years ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-07-27 09:25 |
| #7 ghot jobs doing a ghost investigation. Nothing to see here,but we can't comment or testify because it's "under active investigation" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-07-27 09:15 |
| #6 Any bets they find stuff that is "disturbing" but not a "crime"? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-07-27 09:01 |
| #5 IRS Commissioner John Koskinen referred the congressional charges to the agency's exempt operations for investigation? This is a waste of time since the IRS has been turned into a weapon to be used against conservatives. Probably true for the FBI and FTC too. Confidence in federal agencies has taken a huge hit under Obama. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-07-27 08:35 |
| #4 The IRS, if its not likely to be abolished, is one bureaucracy I'd outsource to a foreign country - Sweden or Denmark come specifically to mind. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-07-27 08:33 |
| #3 The IRS is the swamp in which they hide all their dirt. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-07-27 08:18 |
| #2 the real investigation of the Clinton Foundation is, perhaps, being done by Wikileaks |
| Posted by: lord garth 2016-07-27 08:01 |
| #1 Sounds rather ominous until you realize the odious Koskinen sent the investigation to the 'agency's Exempt Operations Office' as opposed to the Criminal Investigation Division. How Criminal Investigations Are Initiated The Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division conducts criminal investigations regarding alleged violations of the Internal Revenue Code, the Bank Secrecy Act and various money laundering statutes. The findings of these investigations are referred to the Department of Justice for recommended prosecution. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-07-27 01:23 |