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Obama Structured Payments to Iran to Avoid 2008 Law (Vanity)
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Posted on 08/24/2016 9:22:36 PM PDT by TigerClaws

Obama made another $1.3 billion in payments to Iran. But they were done in a strange way. $99,999,999 payments.

This seemed odd. But there was a law they were circumventing. Classic criminal structuring.

Proof:

Judgment fund is capped at $100,000,000. It was structuring pure and simple.

http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1580&context=jcl

Transaction can be found here:

http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=14_xrmpzz.png

Source:

https://jfund.fms.treas.gov/jfradSearchWeb/JFPymtSearchAction.do

"The Judgment Fund is the mechanism Congress established to pay most settlements and judgments against the federal government. The Fund, originally created in 1956 and limited then to paying judgments of $100,000 or less"....

"Congress expected that ninety-eight percent of judgments would fall within that limit." [The Judgment Fund] is “a permanent, indefinite appropriation for the satisfaction of judgments, awards, and compromise settlements against the United States.” The Judgment Fund is available only under specific circumstances, but when available it makes payments without any review by Congress. The government uses it to pay out billions of dollars every year, yet there is no practical way for Congress or the public to track where Judgment Fund money goes.

The Constitution [states] in Clause 7 of Article I, Section 9: “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law....” [In the 2008 Farm Bill,] Congress set the maximum amount to be paid under the new statute, and appropriated for that purpose, $100,000,000.

Structuring is a crime if citizens do it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring#Background

Finally, the justification for the cash payment was we 'couldn't wire the money.' But then we did.

So why the cash?

Will Congress or anyone hold the administration responsible for shredding the law yet again?


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: iran; obama
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To: Mollypitcher1

The “foreign court or tribunal” must be in Iran.


41 posted on 08/25/2016 2:37:49 AM PDT by Ray76 (Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo!)
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To: TigerClaws

I thought it might be a system limitation. I know the IRS will send back big checks because the input field for the amount can hold only so many spaces. In those cases the IRS asks the taxpayer to send two checks totaling the amount due.


42 posted on 08/25/2016 2:44:01 AM PDT by plangent
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To: Ray76

When will we get accountability? Only with Trump!


43 posted on 08/25/2016 3:47:38 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: TigerClaws

Our “Congress” has as much real power today as the USSR’s Congress of People’s Deputies.

IOW, none.

Welcome to the USSA, comrades. We have a very pretty Constitution. On paper. Toilet paper today.


44 posted on 08/25/2016 5:48:47 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: TigerClaws

Bump


45 posted on 08/25/2016 5:50:19 AM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: TigerClaws

Well, didn’t former President Nixon tell David Frost, “If the President does it, it’s not illegal”?


46 posted on 08/25/2016 6:02:58 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: TigerClaws

Businesses have had their assets seized because they deposited their cash receipts as they received them and the corrupt government turned an honest action into an accusation of structuring.
Our government is corrupt. Americans like to think that we have a clean government, unlike in third-world countries. But with the clintons and the bammys we are worse than any corrupt regime in the world.
Bam has committed a crime and needs to be removed from office.


47 posted on 08/25/2016 6:17:27 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic PartyÂ’s press agency now: Robert Spencer.)
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To: Ray76

Try making 13 $9999.99 transfers from your own bank account with your own money and see how far you get.

The corruption we know of, is likely the tip of the iceburg. 90-95% is still in the dark like mildew. In a sane world this would be enough to cause a run on pitchforks and torches.


48 posted on 08/25/2016 6:56:36 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: TigerClaws

You came up with this on your own?

Awesome post, SUPER AWESOME IF YOU DISCOVERED THIS!!!


49 posted on 08/25/2016 7:43:03 AM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: arthurus
And if I "structure" bank withdrawals or deposits to be less than a certain amount at which they are reported to the KGBIRS I will get IRS agents at my door and my accounts frozen or confiscated and maybe go to jail.

Isn't that how they got Dennis Hastert ????

50 posted on 08/25/2016 7:47:29 AM PDT by Robe (A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: Ray76

So Obola pays 13 times out of a permanent contingency fund that was set up for 100,000,000.00 payments for a total of 1.3 billion?

What’s happened to the rest of the money? Who ELSE has been paid off over the years? Does ANYBODY in DC care about 100,000,000.00 any more? (My company requires justification for EVERY expense, and fights for even a $100.00 tool over the budget.)


51 posted on 08/25/2016 7:52:26 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: TigerClaws

If I “structure” my bank dealings that way, my accounts will be frozen and I’ll get a visit from armed men.


52 posted on 08/25/2016 8:32:53 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Impeach and remove.

With all due respect, it's a little late for that.

53 posted on 08/25/2016 8:34:41 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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