Posted on 06/12/2017 12:41:26 PM PDT by Enlightened1
President of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Schweizer, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXX host Raheem Kassam on Monday regarding Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to end Department of Justice handouts for leftist groups, which has come to be known as something of a “slush fund.”
As Breitbart News reported:
For decades, through a variety of initiatives, the DOJ has insisted on donations to third parties as part of the settlements it reaches with defendants, especially corporations. In the Obama administration, this practice took on the character of a “slush fund,” which funneled hundreds of millions of dollars from these corporate defendants and put it into the hands of non-government organizations.
Recipients have included left-wing “community organizer” groups such as the National Council of La Raza, or “The Race,” a Latino racial advocacy group that supports mass illegal immigration. Other recipients include the National Urban League, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, and NeighborWorks America, which is a congressionally chartered mortgage aid group that itself has come under widespread criticism.
“This is a tremendous victory people ought to be very encouraged by,” said Schweizer.
The idea got its start under Eric Holder as far back as the Clinton administration. “The problem is, it got distorted, as so many things do in Washington, DC,” added Schweizer. “And so rather than going to the victims of what a company might have done, they ended up giving it to activist groups. And many of these activist groups, like La Raza, like others, not only didn’t do things to alleviate the activity that had taken place, they actually used the money for things like voter registration.”
“These were politically active groups,” he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Not sure why this is legal.
<><> L/E needs to examine bank accounts.
<><> Joint bank accounts might be used to facilitate the transfer funds from one account to another, and/or wire-transferred offshore;
<><> To cover their tracks, fake invoices might be created to show that money deposited into SPLC accounts was being used for legitimate purposes.
<><> Financial schemes scheme might be advanced by issuing phony statements of payments from financial sources that actually covered the transfer of funds for insiders' personal use and/or for financing migrants from terrorist countries.
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NOTE WELL Under the Bank Secrecy Act, banks are required to establish, implement and maintain programs designed to detect and report suspicious activity indicative of money laundering and other financial crimes and financing terrorism. “The Bank Secrecy Act was enacted to protect the public from harm by identifying and detecting money laundering from criminal enterprises, terrorism, tax evasion or other unlawful activities,” the special agent in charge for Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, explained.
Shady banking transactions could be prosecuted under the (1) Bank Secrecy ACT, (2) RICO, and, (3) the Hobbs Act.
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<><> L/E should get ahold of: (1) copies of checks, (2) wire transfers, (3) account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) correspondence including snail mail, e-mail, mobile devices, cell phones, (8) contracts, (9) loan agreements, (10) other account books or official records.
L/E should also explore (a) monies paid to brokers, sub- brokers, (b) family members, (c) mortgage brokers, (d) financial managers, and, (e) real estate agents, brokers, and developers.
<><> L/E should scrutinize bank accounts for suspicious activites: (A) large deposits, (B) funds transferred from one account into another, (C) frequent requests for withdrawals.
<><> Bank records might also show diversions to secret LLC accounts, to money launder and to operate personal ventures;
Tax fraud may also be a factor, facilitated by withdrawals, gift cards purchases, credit card purchases and intra-bank transfers from legal bank accounts into personal accounts, or redistribution schemes.
<><> A huge tipoff is whether bank withdrawals support and luxurious lifestyle including payments for real estate, investment and stock holdings, jewelry, luxury vehicles, resort travel....... and gifts from luxury outlets.
He should Claw back to money Obama/Holder gave away
Over the past two years those coerced "donations" amounted to a billion dollars.
In an apparent looting and shakedown scheme akin to an organized crime MO, left-wing interest groups (a) the radical La Raza, (b) the Urban League, (c) the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, (d) Neighborhood America (formerly ACORN) that stood to gain from mandatory donation provisions were they, themselves, involved in placing self-serving provisions in the Obama govt's shakedown scheme.
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It is entirely possible that the Obama admin, Eric Holder, Congressional Democrats and left wing groups may have committed federal offenses, including, but not limited to:
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government for funding (may involve several felonies and could include forgery);
<><> 18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to funding documents required by ERISA enacted 1974 and other possible offenses including civil and/or criminal RICO violations.
<><> 18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)18 U.S.C. §1001 (making false Statements to Agents of the US Government regarding federal funding),
<><> 18 U.S.C. §241(Conspiracies Against Civil Rights). Violation of Civil Rights under Color of law and conspiracy. Conspiring with others to violate conservative students’ 4th amendment rights.
<><> Possibly full investigations centering on RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because (1) the persons (2) were employed by or associated with a federally funded enterprise (3) that engaged in or affected interstate commerce and that (4) the persons operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a “pattern” (6) of racketeering activity, and (7) the taxpayers were injured by reason of the “pattern” of racketeering activity.
<><> Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §2 41 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional mandates in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.
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Taxpayers demand the following agencies commence investigations of liberal campus activities at once:
<><> FBI — Wire Fraud Division
<><> IRS-Fraud Unit
<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,
<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.
<><> DOJ’s Criminal Division— Public Integrity Section
<><> DOJ Criminal Division—Organized Crime and Gang Section.
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ACTION NOW-—Contact your Representative and Senators Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044
Call President Trump---- Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414
TALKING POINTS: (A) taxpayers demand reparations for leftist groups shakedown schemes. (B) sever all public funds, including federal funds to these criminal groups.
This should be a no-brainer for Sessions to stop it. I’m glad he stopped it but you kind of expect him to as this is the type of corruption he should be helping DJT to get rid of completely without asking Dems for permission first.
“Obama’s stash.”
Sin is lawlessness!
This is just another reason why the dimoKKKRATS are pissed at Sessions.
Obama administration felons about to face the music of their deeds going to be a fun 4 years.
Clinton’s vacation some place in Africa.
Yes !!
good. now, go after the tobacco money that went to the states’ slush funds instead of directly to those individuals with medical bills and costs related to cancer and emphysema
This should never have been permitted to begin with. Since it was strong-armed against defendants as part of a plea “agreement,” the Courts were bound to either accept the agreement in toto or reject it and set the case for trial. Considering all plea agreements to some extent come with an element of coercion, the Courts could not say the deal was “involuntary” and followed along.
I applaud Attorney General Sessions for this long overdue policy decision, but this policy will only last as long as the current administration. What is needed here is a clear Congressional statutory prohibition of this extortionist tactic, so that it will take a repeal of a Congressional act to ever allow it again.
You listed all these laws as if they applied to politicians. They don’t.
One good thing to come out of this - now we should be able to come up with a complete list of ACORN’s 1001 new names.
Why was this happening in the first place?
Good news!
It is great news! Thanks!
Sessions has to show me a whole lot more than this to justify his remaining as AG.
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