Here in America and coming to every blue city for their payments due to electing Hoe and Joe!
Posted on 01/20/2021 5:20:10 PM PST by bitt
Justice Department had ceased the practice early in President Trump's administration
President-elect Joe Biden is calling for the Justice Department to look into reinstating a controversial Obama-era practice that allowed prosecutors to make settlement agreements that resulted in defendants paying outside groups instead of victims or the government.
The Trump administration had put an end to these payments following a 2017 memo from then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions which was reflected in the Justice Department's manual.
"When the federal government settles a case against a corporate wrongdoer, any settlement funds should go first to the victims and then to the American people — not to bankroll third-party special interest groups or the political friends of whoever is in power," Sessions said in 2017.
A Republican-backed bill known as the "Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2017" would have made the practice illegal.
"Congress must permanently end the abuses Obama's Justice Department exploited to use settlements to funnel money to their liberal friends," then-Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who sponsored the bill in the House, said in 2017.
Goodlatte's bill never became law, but the Sessions-era DOJ policy did become an official agency rule that officially went into effect in December 2020. The rule allows for limited exceptions for "an otherwise lawful payment or loan that provides restitution or compensation to a victim," situations where "a trusted third party" is needed to deliver funds due to concerns over foreign corruption, payments for legal or other professional services related to the case, and payments that are otherwise "expressly authorized" by a statute or regulation
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Stolen elections have consequences
And we tolerate this.
Here in America and coming to every blue city for their payments due to electing Hoe and Joe!
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I’m sure Soros is relieved. He couldn’t have been happy having
to shell it out over the last four years, if he in fact did.
It is time for “our” lawfare to start. Make absolutely sure that the rescinding of this rule is done by the book. The APA was used against PDJT every time so it is only fair that we file lawsuits to ensure that they follow all the procedures. As soon as they try to settle a case using this sick process there should be a lawsuit challenging it. File in conservative courts in order to get a conservative judge just like they did with all of their lawsuits.
Bump
No kidding
In other words the continued slush fund weaponization of both the DOJ and the FBI against the People.
Feed the predators and starve the righteous.
Alinsky is back in town.
Wonder who approves the spending of that money. I thought Congress did that job. Maybe they did in one of their unread bills.
Y0?
Cocaine China Ditch's fault? A certain PRyno?
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