Clinton administration quashed fraud case against Cisneros (Barrett Report on Barry Finkelstein)

New York Daily News via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge ^ | January 17, 2005

[HAL9000]

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WASHINGTON _ A special prosecutor's long-delayed report charges that a coverup at senior levels of the Clinton administration killed a tax fraud case against former Cabinet member Henry Cisneros, the New York Daily News has learned.

David Barrett's 11-year, $23 million probe, which will be released Thursday, states in stinging terms that the Clinton coverup succeeded.

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Before Cisneros' 1999 guilty plea, Barrett's office began a second phase based in part on allegations in a 1997 memo to IRS headquarters by whistleblower John Filan, an IRS criminal investigations chief in Texas.

In a memo obtained by the Daily News, Filan accused top Clinton officials, including senior IRS lawyer Barry Finkelstein, of covering up Cisneros' tax fraud case by transferring it to two inexperienced lawyers in Washington.

Filan wrote that the two got orders "to kill the case from Barry Finkelstein at the outset."

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[ModelBreaker]

I thought they had successfully buried this. They buried the important parts. The article provides:

"Then-IRS Commissioner Peggy Richardson, a close friend of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., was involved in efforts to quash the probe, a source close to the case alleged. But Richardson's role was cut from Barrett's report, which went through 26 drafts, because Democratic law firm Williams & Connolly successfully pressured Barrett to remove a section of the report naming her, a source said."

I don't know how they do it but the clintons keep slipping the noose.

[MindBender26]

When Cisneros was mayor, it paid $10.00 a week, yes, $520.00 a year....... and he was supporting a wife and two mistresses, houses, etc.

[del4hope]

Now the plantation comment makes sense. Needed a little distraction say?

[Txsleuth]

Well....WE that listen to Tony Snow will NOT be distracted, will we??????

[Dustbunny]

I hope it is published in full on the web so I can download it.

[Dustbunny]

What time is Tony Snow on and do you have a link?

[Txsleuth]

He is on from 9:00AM to 11:00 AM...

I will find the link...be back soon.

[alancarp]

Now THERE's a Culture of Corruption.

[Txsleuth]

Actually it is a new thread every morning...and if you check between about 8:30 and 9:00, you will see it...

But, if you would like, I can ping you to it in the morning, just in case you miss it, Okay??

It is on from 9:00 to 12:00...I think I posted to 11:00...

I am in the Central zone...so I sometimes get the times wrong for EST..

[laxin4him]

http://www.foxnews.com/tonysnow/index.html

From 9-12 EST

[Txsleuth]

Thanks for posting the radio link....

I will ping Dustbunny to the LIVE thread...if wanted...

YOU TOO...if you want.

[Dustbunny]

Thank you. Have him bookmarked. Will have to remember to turn the PC on early and turn the sound up.

[STARWISE]

900 FBI files ring a bell? Jeeeze .. who else has been scrubbed from their report?

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See this article from 2001 --- and some of the names of the victims of this criminal couple's crime spree

"........Those who spoke out against the Clinton administration frequently still are being audited by the IRS.

Can Clinton’s IRS commissioner be trusted, or should he be replaced? During the Clinton years those who spoke out against the president frequently received a visit from the IRS.

Paula Jones, who accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment; Gennifer Flowers, who revealed a longtime affair with Clinton; and Billy Dale, who fought back when he was fired as director of the White House Travel Office to make room for Clinton friends, all received “random audits” from the IRS.

More than 50 other individuals and organizations that received national attention for being critical of Clinton also were audited, most for the first time.

Many attributed the pattern of these audits to Clinton’s first IRS commissioner, Margaret Milner Richardson, who served from 1993 to 1997. A close friend of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Richardson was a fiercely partisan Democrat who even attended the 1996 Democratic National Convention while she was commissioner.

But this pattern of audits continued long after the 1997 appointment of Richardson’s successor, Charles Rossotti, who was championed as a “reformer” by some Republicans (see “Political Audits Revisited,” April 23). George W. Bush has retained Rossotti despite the fact that both liberal and conservative public-interest groups have condemned him for flagrant conflict of interest.

Rossotti insists on keeping large holdings of stock in American Management Systems (AMS), a software giant he cofounded that does many millions of dollars worth of business with the agency he heads.

But Bush’s decision to leave a Clinton holdover in such a powerful position may be having more consequences than enrichment of Rossotti’s portfolio. Insight has learned that many prominent critics of Clinton still are being subjected to audits, notices and visits from Rossotti’s IRS well into the Bush administration. ....................."

[Michael.SF.]

I thought they had successfully buried this.

They have.

[laxin4him]

I have him on when I am around the house and I can get him on the radio all the way down in annapolis, MD.

[Dustbunny]

Would be nice to be able to listen to him on the radio but we only get local stations when we are able to get any station. Live in the outback of Penna.

[nickcarraway]

She's immune to that- she's survived it already.

[Txsleuth]

Tony Snow seems to be confident that the "whole" report will get out, I think...

If it doesn't...there has GOT to be some way that we can prod the Congress to release the whole thing...

Get Mark Levin to file an FOIA petition or something..

[JennysCool]

The redacted parts will leak. No doubt about it.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

why not. Let's take his law license away again.