Posted this on another thread, but it bears repeating. This is how government works.
From experience, here’s how this works. The government is like the Mafia, but with better retirement and dental insurance. The IRS sent a task force to the Honeywell facility on Ulmerton Rd in Clearwater, Fl. They spent about 18 months with a large team, I want to say it was about 20 auditors. This cost the government a lot of money. As a sidebar, Honeywell was the most ethical employer I ever had. My employers on the low end, ranged from Elcotel, which was raided by the FBI, to an ITT spinoff that was forced to be sold to Harris because of a massive cheat. Honeywell was on the other end of the scale. The IRS team found only one small thing.
On his first day in office, a VP had signed an okay to use a new charge number on an in-house project as the other one had run out. It turned out to be a government charge number and Honeywell caught the error and repaid the miss-charge. The IRS threatened to send that VP to prison for fraud. They demanded (I want to say two million dollars) which was far in excess of the amount miss-charged, that had been repaid as soon as the error was caught.
I was personal friends with the VP’s son. So, I know the inside story. The IRS was embarrassed, having publicly stated that Honeywell was a cheat and a fraud and they were going to send people to jail. Essentially, the money they demanded would have paid for the investigation, plus some. Honeywell understood this was a negotiation. So, they said, “Nope. We’ll see you in court.” Now, anyone who deals with government thugs knows how this works. Yes, Honeywell would likely have prevailed and the IRS would have gotten an even bigger black eye. (I think the technical word here is, “extortion.”) The last thing a company wants is a government agency as powerful as the IRS “mad” or “vengeful” towards them. Both parties knew there would be a compromise to make the IRS not look too bad and to let the IRS save face by saying they had fined Honeywell. I don’t recall the details, but I think Honeywell admitted to wrongdoing, which the government “forgave” in exchange for paying a fine, the amount of which was secret.
The Mafia would be RICO’d for doing the same thing.
Thanks for the first hand report. That is the Deep State MO. Sickening.
My S-I-L works for a Private Prison Company. Her Facility has been Contracted to house ICE Detainees.
Ever since Xiden took over, they have been Audited by every Federal Government Entity that has anything to do with Immigration. Sometimes there are competing Audit Teams at the Facility at the same time.
In my Corporate Days, we called crap like this Non Productive Busy Work. It appears to be nothing but harassment since the DEMONCRATS hate Private Prison Operators, but now that the Borders are wide open they need them.
The worst part is that one Government Entity will say everything is 100% spot on and the next Government Entity will come up with a “finding”. The Left hand has no idea what the Right Hand is doing.
When they first got the ICE Contract, Congressional “Staffers” showed up to tour the place.
The DEMONCRAT Staffers were nothing but trouble making idiots, asking the most inane questions and acting like they owned the place. They had a meltdown when they were told that they couldn’t bring in their Cell Phones and they had to hike back to their Cars with them.
When the GOP Staffers showed up, they were exactly the opposite. They were well behaved, visibly impressed with the Facility, respectful to the Staff and followed the Rules.
The government is like the Mafia, but with better retirement and dental insurance.
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The mafia, unlike the government, also generally leaves you alone unless you chose to do business with them (prostitution, drugs, numbers).
It works the same on asset forfeiture
They glom everything ....even assets not in question
So when you can no longer operate your business you’ll give up the funds in question and some of the “legal” funds funds too jus to pay payroll etc
Used to be they had to have a conviction ...or at least go to a judge to obtain a freeze.
Now any LEO can call a bank in some states and ask bank accounts frozen
Cops and DAs know how to extort money this way....unless feds are involved assets forfeited stay local....if a fed task force....Feds get 20% which they simply kick to general fund
Locals and state csn use your money for trucks, guns, web gear, crime symposium junkets to Italy and so on
A racket it is...license to steal as my lawyer put it
The government is like the Mafia, but with better retirement and dental insurance........
Plus......the US Treasury is the pols piggy bank, “funding” per projects and getting a chunk of the funding....... then there’s the Biden family operation that makes the Mafia look like amateurs....and remember when Hillary left State, they found $6 billion missing.