Posted on 03/05/2017 2:35:08 PM PST by Cold War Veteran - Submarines
This week, Congress turned attention toward a continuing Obama Administration policy wherein the Justice Department (DOJ) incentivizes corporate payments to left-wing activist groups like La Raza.
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We really need a smaller government.
Qui tam suits need to be filed against the recipients to recover the money for the government.
Obama and Congressional Democrats——with a huge assist from then-AG Eric Holder——have given NeighborWorks America (formerly ACORN) and La Raza a huge funding source of tax dollars to achieve Obama’s dream of a permanent Democrat majority.
Obama/Holder/Dems are forcing taxpayers via DOJ litigation WRT bank settlements——into paying off these nefarious organizations.
DOJ went after CitiCorp and ordered them to pay $50 million to La Raza and NeighborWorks America as part of the settlement.
Another clause in the agreement makes it possible for La Raza and NeighborWorks America to rake in even larger amounts of money.
Of the remaining money the banks needed to pay in settlements, the banks were able to contribute additional money to La Raza and NeighborWorks America. For every dollar they contribute, it reduces their debt to the government by 2 dollars. That’s some mighty powerful incentive to give generously.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling have questioned why this money was sent to the ACORN clone and the blood-thirsty LaRaza——rather than to the alleged victims of the bank’s crime. The administration of course declined to answer.
Here’s part of the Congressmen’s letter to Holder: “It seems that the alleged victims are not the primary beneficiaries of these multi-billion dollar settlements. Instead, the terms in the Justice Department’s two latest settlements look less like consumer relief and more like a scheme to funnel money to politically favored special interest groups.”
“This makes donations to activist groups far more attractive to banks than providing direct relief to injured consumers. As a result, the settlements appear to serve as a vehicle for funding activist groups rather than as a means of securing relief for consumers actually harmed.”
I am shocked that such nefarious activity is being conducted by the good old reliable American taxpayer funded and morally principled FBI, a bastion of patriotic peoples whose goal is to root out such nefarious and anti Amereican activity of such hate filled and treasonous La Raza. An organization committed to stealing 9 of the south western states for Mexico.
Shocked that the FBI is involved in this obviously global leftist socialist run and funded activity. Are there still Obamanaion leftover counter American agents left is this once prestigious and admirable pro American domestic spying organization? Shocked and surprised is written all over my pro America 1st face!
What a scum socialist run fed government is running America using evil spy and intelligence and Congressional and judicial offices as their own springboard for power and money and one world government. Shocked and dismayed.
Is there no mechanism in place to track this money, or was the mechanism simply ignored?
This is one thing they fear, no money.
Cut off the money to these “causes” and you will see a marked improvement in society.
This system funds to groups trying to impose the Progressive Agenda.
Excellent idea, cut off there money and make them defend the litigation they have no chance of winning.
Also, stop them from receiving their legal fees from their advisory, didn’t know about that, it was written into environmental and civil rights legislation...
Why can’t Trump and Sessions simply put a stop to this? Do they not have control over the DOJ or is there something I am missing?
It appears that the Dems only appoint people to the DOJ who are thieves .. and who are willing to continue in that mode, as long as they give the money to Left-wing groups.
Cute!
About sums it up.
The payments are probably written into the faux judgment “settlements.” Perhaps the best they can do is suspend the payments until congressional action coupled with public & WH pressure are brought to bear.
Otoh, maybe the payments have already been made so the best they can do is not to repeat the mistake of doing these BS awards again.
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