Posted on 07/02/2018 6:19:15 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Legal experts say its likely special counsel Robert Mueller secretly gained access to the National Rifle Associations tax returns as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, according to a McClatchy report.
Muellers team is reportedly looking into NRA donors with links to Russia and investigating whether some donors used the organization to illegally funnel foreign money to President Trumps campaign.
The NRA spent $30 million backing Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
NRA officials maintain that the organization has not been contacted by the FBI, but legal experts told McClatchy D.C. that it would be routine for investigators to access the groups tax filings through the Internal Revenue Service.
The tax filings would reveal the NRAs dark money donors, whose names are hidden on public documents.
David Axelrod, an Ohio lawyer who formerly prosecuted cases for the Justice Departments Tax Division, told McClatchy D.C. that prosecutors often request tax filings entirely in the background, with no notice to the subject of the investigation.
Former senior Justice Department official Michael Zeldin told McClatchy that it would be basic blocking and tackling for the prosecutors to seek all relevant tax returns.
Muellers office declined to comment for McClatchys report.
The NRA disclosed in April that it received about $2,500 in contributions from 23 Russia-linked individuals since 2015. McClatchy reported earlier this year that the FBI was looking into whether one of those donors, Alexander Torshin, used the NRA to funnel money to the Trump campaign.
Torshin is a Russian politician and deputy of the country's central bank.
He has ties to former NRA President David Keene and hosted him for a pro-gun conference in Russia.
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Were your revolutionary war ancestors involved in Russian collusion? Hmmm? Time to exhume? Hmmm?
I know it’s forking ridiculous but so is Trump impeachment.
Because everyone knows that a Russian spy would never fail to report their taxes. /s
Obviously Muller hss gone Gestapo looking for conservatives he can persecute.
if this is true, it’s worse than if Hillary Clinton had won.
MORE REASON THE MUELLER FARCE MUST BE BROUGHT TO AN END.
basically, everyone connected in any way whatsoever to Trump - no matter how minor it may be - is in danger of having their lives destroyed.
My ancestors would have been reaching for their muskets by now.
used the NRA to funnel money to the Trump campaign.
It is legal for the NRA-ILA, and for the NRA to spend money on political ads, under Citizens United court ruling.
How can someone giving money to the NRA be considered as funneling money to the Trump campaign?
But tens of millions of dollars given to the Clinton Foundation are presumed legal??
Mueller is basically doing free election opposition research for the democrat party!
Let's hope we can still do it at the ballot box.
Likely not just oppo. My bet is the info would have been/ was put to criminal use, for blackmail and/or extortion.
“Mueller reminds me of a rabid dog intent on biting anything that moves.”
Only republicans/conservatives.
Because it is perfectly logical that Vladimir Putin backs the Second Amendment and wants every American armed...
and he wanted the strong on military defense and spending GOP to win the Presidency
Putin must not have read “ Red Dawn”
D’Oh!!
Basically anything in D.C. with three letters needs to be shut down and dismantled.
“Mueller reminds me of a rabid dog intent on biting anything that moves. “
Thanks Jeff.
Look how far this bastid has gone.
Is there no stopping this invasive Nazi?
“Because it is perfectly logical that Vladimir Putin backs the Second Amendment and wants every American armed...”
Putin is an American patriot compared to the democrats who have tried to set him up as the bogeyman.
I’m more interested in NR (as in National Review) funders at this point.
Have Soros dollars found their way to them? CIA Deep State, consistent with their origins? Or are they rabid Never Trumpers because of cheap labor plutocrats paying to assure the illegal spigot doesn’t get turned off?
Oh, please let this be true.
I want Mueller to explain how $2500 from Russia and the NRA defeated $1 Billion from Hillary.
Even independent voters will easily see how this just proves that Hillary and the RATs were completely stupid.
Can there be any doubt that the Mueller witch hunt fits exactly with the Racketeering In Corrupt Organizations Law? Mueller and his entire crew should be charged with sedition, extortion, and obstruction of justice.
I confess. I'm guilty. I have ancestors from (the Tsar's) Russia, and I am a Life Member supporting the NRA. When Mueller comes after me, he'll finally get what he's looking for on this fishing expedition. I will even plead guilty to exercising my First Amendment free speech rights in a manner that he and his cronies find distasteful.
Lol.
FR’s Russophobe nuts in fact endorse the Mueller probe with their incessant “russia scare” propaganda.
NO!
According to the article that would be $2500 in donations from 23 Russian linked individuals since 2015.....or about $34/year/Russian linked individual
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