Obama stepped on the old proverbial rake

Behold, the sheer, unadulterated tragedy of former President Barack Obama discovering that the federal government can be used for political targeting. One can only imagine the sheer emotional toll it takes to clutch one's pearls this hard.

Former divisive President Barack Obama is lashing out against President Donald Trump for the decision to criminally investigate Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar over her immigration status.

"It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say," Obama wailed into the digital ether, completely forgetting that his own administration treated political weaponization like an intramural sport.

After all, why dwell on minor historical footnotes like the IRS aggressively auditing conservative non-profits, or the totally organic creation of the Russia collusion hoax and the Steele Dossier? Those were just whimsical little pranks, unlike today's horrors.

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“The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans,” Obama continued, apparently having checked his own reflection in the mirror and found it entirely invisible.

Naturally, contemporary Democrats are simply trying to save everyone the trouble by openly warning young conservatives that working for the opposition might ruin their lives with legal threats. But do not worry, because the commentariat has already assured us that this is completely different.

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Florida awards Zohran Mamdani as their "Economic Developer of the Year" in Times Sq. campaign

"Hey Zohran, thanks for the jobs" --love, Florida

Communism [the left calls it socialism] is apparently a strong motivator to get people to run as fast as they can away from where it's imposed. New York City, run by comrade Mayor Zohran Mamdani, is one case in point. The beneficiary of New York's exodus in large part is Florida.

At the corner of Broadway and West 43rd Street, basically the heart of the Big Appel, a massive new billboard is sending an infuriating message to New York leadership: "Thanks for the jobs!" [H/T Fox News.]

The United States is now facing a choice between free enterprise or more government control under socialism. Florida is having none of that and has launched a Times Square campaign naming  New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani Florida's "Economic Developer of the Year." Let this once again show the [wo]man in the street, how progressive socialist policies with their all encompassing taxing, are driving businesses and families to conservative-run states such as Florida and Texas.

Florida now has a $1,800,000,000,000.35 record-breaking wealth migration. That's even more money than Elon Musk has earned.

"We wanted to thank him [Mamdani] for the jobs, the companies, the people that they're pushing out of New York — and a lot of them are coming to Florida," Chamber CEO Mark Wilson first told Fox News Digital on Monday.

"America is at a crossroads right now. I think everyone that's paying attention knows that our country was built on freedom and free enterprise and people having the liberty to make their dreams come true," Wilson said. "And there's a push in our country right now to take those liberties away and to attack free enterprise. And that's never worked anywhere, and it won't work in America."

"What Mayor Mamdani is doing is dangerous for the country, right? It's bad for New Yorkers. It's bad for New York. It's very harmful for the country," Wilson continued. "We can choose free enterprise, which is what America was built on, or we can choose to destroy that, which is what the social[ist] policies do… And so, what we're hoping happens from this campaign is that we refocus America on free enterprise."

In addition to putting the blame on Mamdani, the Chamber’s campaign highlights its argument that lower tax rates yield higher total state revenues by incentivizing growth, while blue-state tax hikes trigger a tax-based exodus. According to the Chamber, citing IRS migration data, Florida gains approximately $2.4 million in net taxable income every hour, while New York loses approximately $1.1 million per hour. The Chamber also says Florida gains a net 551 residents daily, compared to New York losing 115 residents daily. Now that's an enormous difference.

"Heading South" [AI generated]

According to the Chamber's press release, New York’s state budget is over twice Florida’s, and New York City’s municipal budget alone is more than $8 billion higher than the entire Florida state budget.

"What do people like Mayor Mamdani do? They want to then increase taxes on the people who are left, which just further accelerates people leaving places like New York," Wilson explained, showing that comrades like Mamdani, know nothing about economics and are dangerous to their constituents and the country as a whole.

So just like Barack Obama was the gun industry's best salesman, Mamdani is Florida's best jobs head hunter.

"Florida's lowered taxes over 50 times in the last 15 years. And we have record revenues coming in because people want to be here. And when the economy grows, tax revenues grow. That's how free enterprise works," Wilson said.

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SPLC CEO Suddenly Develops Deep Respect For Attorney-Client Privilege After Jim Jordan Starts Asking Questions

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s interim president and CEO discovered Tuesday that the English language apparently contains no suitable words for “no” after House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan began asking inconvenient questions about the organization’s alleged extremist infiltration program.

Bryan Fair spent most of the hearing performing what legal experts are calling “Olympic-level verbal dodgeball,” repeatedly responding with some variation of “our counsel in the Middle District of Alabama will address that allegation” anytime Jordan asked whether the SPLC had, hypothetically speaking, funded activities that sounded suspiciously like the plot of a rejected FBI screenplay.

Jordan walked Fair through allegations laid out in a superseding federal indictment claiming the SPLC used donor cash to bankroll confidential “field sources” embedded in extremist groups. According to the indictment, those operatives allegedly did far more than quietly observe. They reportedly hosted rallies, expanded hate group chapters, recruited members, and even purchased materials for cross burnings. Because apparently “monitoring extremism” now comes with an event planning budget.

Fair declined to directly deny any of it.

“It seems to me if the answer is no, you could just say no,” Jordan told Fair after the latest round of interpretive legal theater.

Fair responded with the now-classic Washington defense strategy of saying absolutely nothing while using the maximum number of syllables possible.

The hearing became even more entertaining when Jordan rattled off a list of alleged shell companies with names sounding less like legitimate businesses and more like aliases used by cartoon villains trying to evade IRS audits: Fox Photography, North West Technologies, Tech Writers Group, Rare Books Warehouse, Imagery Ink, J&J Electronics, Center Investigative Agency, and Kelly’s Marine.

Jordan suggested the companies may have been used to funnel roughly $4 million to field operatives while conveniently obscuring the paper trail. Fair insisted any knowledge he had came through privileged conversations with attorneys, which critics noted is an impressive amount of legal confidentiality for someone who supposedly runs the organization.

Then came the awkward moment.

Jordan asked whether SPLC fundraising surged after the 2017 Charlottesville rally, where the indictment alleges one SPLC-paid source helped coordinate transportation for participants. Fair admitted donations skyrocketed, but quickly credited Donald Trump’s 2016 victory instead. Jordan pointed out the group’s fundraising reportedly exploded from $51 million to $133 million in a single year, which observers noted is quite the financial growth strategy for an organization dedicated to “fighting hate.”

Fair eventually volunteered one clear statement, explaining the program existed “to protect our staff and to protect the public.”

Americans everywhere breathed a sigh of relief knowing the safest way to fight extremism is apparently to organize it personally.

Jordan closed the hearing with one final question, asking Fair whether he knew the president of the National Socialist Party.

Fair responded exactly as viewers expected: “That’s an allegation in the indictment that will be responded to by counsel.”

At press time, SPLC officials were reportedly considering rebranding the organization as “Lawyers Without Direct Answers.”

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Bessent's witty remark about Illinois exodus leaves Chicago-area lawmaker fuming on camerap

If there’s one thing congressional Democrats love more than lecturing Americans about economics, it’s yelling at Republicans who actually know something about economics.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent found himself on the receiving end of one of Capitol Hill’s trademark Democrat meltdowns this week during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing, when Rep. Brad Schneider of Illinois decided that volume was a substitute for intelligence.

Schneider joined the usual parade of Democrats trying to pin every fluctuation in grocery prices on President Donald Trump, tariffs, Iran, capitalism, weather patterns, and probably Jupiter being in retrograde. Bessent, meanwhile, kept calmly reminding everyone that inflation during the Biden years looked like a Black Friday riot at the Federal Reserve.

Things got spicy after Schneider attempted to corner Bessent over comments regarding the Iran conflict. Schneider dramatically asked whether Bessent wanted to "correct the record" about the conflict being "ended," before rattling off a list of concerns about Iran threatening Israel and U.S. allies.

Bessent, clearly enjoying himself, smiled and asked whether Schneider was suddenly "in agreement" with Trump since the congressman had just repeated the administration’s goals out loud without spontaneously combusting.

"Unless an American life is lost, he does not believe that he will have to restart the kinetic attacks," Bessent replied.

That answer did not soothe Schneider, who immediately shifted into the familiar Democrat setting of Angry Cable News Panelist. As the congressman grew more agitated, he tried tying rising commodity prices to the Iran conflict while blaming Trump and Bessent for everything short of the Cubs bullpen.

Bessent responded with the sort of thing Democrats hate most, actual numbers.

The treasury secretary pointed out that core inflation currently sits at 2.8%, close to the Federal Reserve’s target, before dryly noting that Schneider seemed determined to recite a grocery list of the most expensive items he could find.

"you can list off the most expensive groceries that have had the biggest price increases," Bessent quipped.

Naturally, Schneider accused Bessent of being out of touch, because modern Democrats believe anyone who disagrees with them must either be evil or shopping at the wrong supermarket.

That’s when Bessent delivered the line that probably caused half the Illinois delegation to start stress-eating deep dish pizza.

"Well, you Democrats should know, no wonder so many people are leaving Illinois. Why don't you come see me in South Carolina?"

Ouch.

Schneider, apparently unaware that U-Haul statistics exist, angrily insisted people are not fleeing Illinois.

Bessent couldn’t resist twisting the knife.

"You're saying Illinois doesn't have net outbound migration?"

At that point, somebody in the room probably should’ve checked Schneider’s blood pressure.

The congressman then abruptly changed subjects to Trump’s settlement with the IRS over former contractor Charles Littlejohn leaking tax returns, because nothing says “I’m winning this argument” like bailing out entirely.

Schneider huffed that nobody, including Trump, is "above the law."

Bessent calmly fired back that Trump is not "beneath the law" either, while accusing Democrats of "weaponizing the system."

Schneider then solemnly declared, "His taxes should never be leaked. No taxpayer information should be leaked…"

That setup was just too easy.

"Then, congressman, would you like to apologize to the president right now on behalf [of your party]?"

Somewhere deep in the bowels of Congress, a Democrat communications staffer immediately updated their résumé.

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Biden nominee who leaked Trump's IRS tax return gets sentenced

A former IRS contractor and devout Democrat, Charles Edward Littlejohn, 38, a guy who leaked former President Donald Trump's tax returns, was sentenced to five years in prison this week, and is hoping to meet fellow Trump-haters in the mess hall.

Littlejohn [aka Tiny Toilet] was a contractor with the IRS from 2018 to 2020. He pleaded guilty last October to unauthorized disclosure of tax returns and return information, in spite of his belief that he was doing a patriotic operation.

When and if former President Trump wins a second term, it is highly unlikely that he will pardon the Democratic operative.

As a government contractor, Littlejohn “stole” Trump’s tax return information, the DOJ said on Monday, adding that he took steps to conceal his activities so he wouldn’t get caught. He also stole the tax return information of thousands of America’s wealthiest individuals, including figures like Jeff Bezos.

Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden nominee, imposed the maximum sentence on Littlejohn in federal court and compared him to those who participated in the January 6, 2021, so called riot at the U.S. Capitol, which is patently ridiculous. It's like comparing apples to blowfish. Reyes said the leak was "an intolerable attack on our constitutional democracy." The sentence also includes 3 years supervised release and a $5,000 fine.

“When you target the sitting president of the United States, you’re targeting the office and when you’re targeting the office of the president of the United States, you’re targeting democracy — you’re targeting our constitutional system of government,” she said, adding: “It cannot be open season on our elected officials — it just can’t.”

Acting Inspector General Heather Hill of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) said that the sentence should “serve as a warning to anyone who is considering emulating Mr. Littlejohn’s actions.”

“TIGTA relentlessly investigates individuals who illicitly access and disclose taxpayer information, regardless of their personal motivation,” Hill added. “TIGTA appreciates the commitment of the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in ensuring those who abuse their positions of public trust are held accountable for their actions.”

Federal prosecutors said Littlejohn sought his job as an IRS consultant specifically for the purpose of leaking Trump's returns in 2019. Littlejohn had done work for Booz Allen from 2008 to 2013, but he returned to the company as an IRS consultant in 2017. Prosecutors say the career move was meant to grant him access to private tax information that would allow him to leak Trump's tax returns. The DOJ says Littlejohn considered Trump to be a threat to democracy when, in fact, it is assholes like him who are the real threat.

When Biden loses the election this year, don't be surprised if he pardons this scumcrumpet.

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MT gun owner raided by Biden's ATF, IRS to harass and intimidate:report

Highwood Creek Outfitters gun shop in Great Fall, MT, was raided by the IRS and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Wednesday because the IRS doesn't just collect taxes anymore--they have guns and are learning how to use them.

In a letter to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel and ATF Director Steven M. Dettelbach, Rep. Mathew M. Rosendale Sr. (R-MT) said, "This event is another example of President Biden weaponizing federal agencies to target and harass hard-working Americans for exercising their constitutional rights."

Gee, ya think?

"While we wait to hear more details and the rationale behind this raid, given the positions of the Biden Administration this raid appears to be an attempt to intimidate firearms dealers and owners," the letter stated. "A pattern of intimidation and harassment seems to be emerging under Director Dettelbach’s leadership of the ATF."

"This pattern appears to be orchestrated directly from the White House as evident by the 'fact sheet' released by the Biden Administration, where they detail their plans to hassle mom-and-pop gun shops over minor record keeping and paperwork discrepancies," the letter added.

Rosendale noted that the IRS grabbed all 4473 background check questionnaires, which have absolutely no useful tax data as they "include no financial information, and there is no discernible reason why the IRS would need these forms."

Other than to track who has guns so they can use the information at a later date when our dictator needs it for confiscation purposes.

"The IRS committed an egregious breach of privacy for Montana’s gun owners," Resendale Jr. continued. "Although there are still some murky details regarding the events at Highwood Creek Outfitters. There is no circumstance in which 4473’s would be necessary in an investigation spearheaded by the IRS."

But that isn't the point. This administration is slowly attempting to gain more power.

The owner of Highwood Creek Outfitters Tom Van Hoose said in an interview with MTN News that he has been the subject of government surveillance for a couple of years, and he doesn't know the reason why but fears it's political.

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The dirty secrets in the Dem budget

"See, I remembered this time"

As details emerge from our House Plant's $3.5 trillion spending bill, the dirty little secrets they've hidden within the bill have floated to the surface like a chocolate Tootsie Roll log in a California swimming pool--it doesn't look good.

The socialists [aka: the Democrats] tried to keep the details hidden and promised they wouldn't raise taxes for anyone making less than $400k per annum. But lo and berserk, they tricked us. 

"Unfortunately, the bill as it's being drafted would increase taxes on the middle class in a number of ways," Peter Sepp, president of the National Taxpayers Union said. "To say that the middle class will be untouched by this package is just disingenuous," [aka: a bald-faced lie].

The socialists talk about the "free stuff" in the bill, which, of course, is never free. But they mentioned to us that health care, universal pre-K and college, for example, wouldn't cost you anything, but as Sepp told News Radio KTRH in Houston, "Those benefits are being promised, but they come with a huge price tag. And in the process we are going to do very, very considerable damage."

Some of the money they won't discuss with the public, especially by Biden's buddies in the legacy media, consists of:

$4 billion to fix "racist roads." These roads evidently tend to favor White travelers and cause people of color and other victimized groups [in their own minds] to crash and burn.

$8 billion set aside for "climate police." If the weather gets too warm in a global kind of way, the climate police will take potshots at the sun with non-assault-style rifles. They will also shoot you if you drive a gas guzzler vehicle [unless you can prove you're a government bureaucrat, in which case you get a free pass].

And the most Orwellian part of the bill is the $80 billion slated to be used to hire an additional 87,000 IRS agents whose job it will be to scour your banking transactions and find more ways as well to bring even more money to the government with the end-goal of controlling every aspect of your life.

Of course there's more, but the above should suffice to worry you, which is actually my goal.

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Currently, the Democrats are planning to slip the bill through during the holidays if Father Fauci permits us to celebrate them together and thus be distracted from politics in favor of family and friends. This is a typical Obama-era move when he did it with the Affordable Care Act, or Obama-care. And if you have to sneak a bill into law in order to pass it, what should that tell you about the bill?

Sepp says that even if the bill were to be cut in half, it will still be a clusterfark of spending.

Keep your fingers crossed and your masks on and breathe through you mouth if you wear glasses--that's what Democrats do even those who don't wear glasses.

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IRS must disclose if it criminally investigated Hill and Bill Clinton's foundation

It looks like the Clintons just got the bad news: a U.S. tax court judge has ordered the Internal Revenue Service to disclose whether it criminally investigated the Clinton Foundation.

This ruling was part of an ongoing case involving whistleblowers who have long alleged wrongdoing on the part of the charity which bears the name of former President Bill Clinton and his execrable wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Judge David Gustafson pointed to a “gap” in IRS records and said that the agency’s claim to have never criminally investigated the Clintons’ charity “was not supported by the administrative record and thus constituted an abuse of discretion.” In other words, someone's telling a fib and needs a 'time out'.

[H/T Just the News]

Most of the details of the Clinton Foundation case along with whistleblowers, Lawrence W. Doyle and John F. Moynihan, who are respected forensic financial investigators, according to Just the News, have remained sealed. However, the judge has now authorized his April 22nd ruling, which remanded the case back to the IRS Whistleblower Office, according to investigative reporter John Solomon on his Just the News outlet.

“The WO must further investigate to determine whether CI [criminal investigative division] proceeded with an investigation based on petitioners’ information and collected proceeds,” the ruling stated. “It seems clear we should remand the case to the WO so that it can explore this gap.”

Just the News noted that the judge also declined Doyle and Moynihan’s request to accept a deposition from an Arkansas state official or to compel discovery in the case. Gustafson determined that to do so would have been “outside the scope of proper discovery” and basically tossed away any hopes of a revelatory trial and means the Clintons will skate free, as the ruling class almost always does.

“Petitioners evidently look forward to a trial in which they hope to prove wrongdoing and tax evasion by the target entities and to prove dereliction of duty by the IRS,” he stated. “There will be no such trial in this case.”

However, the ruling helps to perpetuate long-standing allegations that the Clinton tag-team used their foundation to launder money for political favors from foreign nations.

In December 2018, Doyle and Moynihan testified before Congress that they had filed an IRS whistleblower complaint against the organization.

They alleged that the Clinton Foundation engaged in illegal foreign lobbying when it accepted donations from overseas while trying to influence U.S. policy.

The charity “began acting as an agent of foreign governments early in its life and throughout its existence,” Moynihan stated before a House panel.

“As such, the foundation should’ve registered under FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act). Ultimately, the Foundation and its auditors conceded in formal submissions that it did operate as a (foreign) agent, therefore the foundation is not entitled to its 501c3 tax-exempt privileges as outlined in IRS 170 (c)2,” he said.

The Clinton Foundation, in response, declared itself to be “one of the most heavily scrutinized charitable organizations in the world” which had nonetheless “demonstrably improved the lives of millions of people across America and around the world, while earning top ratings from charity watchdog groups in the process.”

And if you believe the scrutiny claim, I have a creampuff of a car to sell you.

Like Monica's blue dress, it's time for the Clintons to come clean.

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Avenatti even worse than we thought: took money from football fans

So what's new with Michael Avenatti? Well, you know he's in trouble over the Nike extortion situation. He's also in trouble with owing clients and company partners money. 

Now the former future of the Democratic Party is accused of stealing money from dozens more clients than was previously known, according to unsealed documents and interviews with Fox News.

The allegation is that the disgraced porn lawyer directed as much as $1,300,000 in settlement funds, intended for about 170 clients, to go into his own pocket.

On a happier note, the bald-headed stooge is sitting in jail awaiting trial in New York on unrelated, but a serious charge.  

Avenatti is the guy who was lavished with praise, love and admiration by MSNBC and CNN, two of the hardest-hitting cable news companies in the business. Just kidding, they suck. These clowns were hoping for Avenatti [who is also in the clown business] to run against President Trump in this year's election. And Chris Matthews of MSNBC wanted to go out with Avenatti for coffee.

As it turns out, the only thing Avenatti will be running for is the shower room door when Bubba and his crew with tattoos come to greet him.

“We didn’t receive any of that,” Donald Albaugh, an Avenatti client said regarding money he was to receive over a lawsuit against the NFL for which Avenatti represented him. Albaugh said he and his wife, Tracy, went to the 2011 Super Bowl in Dallas but, like hundreds of other ticket holders, had problems with their seats and sued the NFL.

FYI the Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 31 to 25.

“The whole thing is so ludicrous,” Arianne Dar told Fox News about taking her son to the game as a graduation present. Dar said she made sure to buy tickets that were not “obstructed view” but they ended up behind a metal pole. “I never heard about a settlement."

H. Dean Steward, a real lawyer, who Avenatti hired to represent him last year, did not immediately respond to a Fox News request for comment. But a guy with only a letter for a first name must be very important, indeed--kind of like H. Allen Smith author of "Low Man on the Totem Pole," and "Life in a Putty Knife Factory," among other things.

The Albaughs and Dar said they each submitted itemized costs to Avenatti and his legal team seeking reimbursement for about $10,000, but they haven’t seen a penny.

In May 2017, Avenatti, representing the ticket holders, entered into an agreement with the NFL for a settlement of about $1,550,000 and a dismissal of all legal claims. However, in March of last year, a search warrant was issued by the IRS of Avenatti's computers and his phones were also seized. It was discovered that he paid out only a fraction of that settlement, according to IRS Special Agent Remoun Karlous.

“Avenatti used the remainder of the approximately $1.31 million dollars [he] and his law firm received from the settlement of the Super Bowl Litigation for [his] own personal and business purposes,” Karlous wrote.

Although Avenatti has not been charged with defrauding his clients in the Super Bowl case, Karlous wrote, “The government will be seeking to admit this evidence at trial on the basis that this criminal conduct falls squarely within and is inextricably intertwined with” an already existing 36-count federal fraud indictment in Orange County, CA.

In one of those charges, Avenatti stood accused of hiding the existence of the NFL settlement from a bankruptcy court dealing with his now-former law firm. Oh my, he is in soooo much trouble. He will never be president, not even president of a condo corporation or a high school science club.

Avenatti’s office manager had witnessed the behavior, Karlous alleged, writing, “In response to a question as to whether she was aware of Avenatti taking money from client funds, [the manager] said that the plaintiffs in the Super Bowl litigation had not all been paid out ... even though there had been money available to pay them.”

Paul Colavecchi said he got money back from Avenatti, but only after his sister, who went with him to the Super Bowl, threatened to report Avenatti to the State Bar of California. None of the Avenatti clients who spoke with Fox News said they saw any paperwork from Avenatti or his firm after the settlement.

Avenatti is facing three criminal cases. Next week he is scheduled to go on trial in New York on charges of trying to extort $25 million from Nike Corp. However, last week the scumwafer was arrested in Los Angeles for allegedly violating his bond, so the timing of the New York case may need to be changed.

Avenatti is also accused of stealing money from pornography film "actress" Stormy Daniels. He represented Daniels in litigation against President Trump over a consensual sex allegation which the president denies and nobody cares about. In his defense, the President referred to Ms. Daniels as "Horseface," intimating that he would never have a sexual encounter with someone who looks like her.

Brilliant defense but it may not get him the women vote this year.


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Elijah Cummings' wife breaking the law by refusing to disclose nonprofit docs

Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the wife of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) may have broken the law by refusing to disclose financial documents relating to her nonprofit. Worse, this suggests a possible conflict with Cummings' supervisory role as chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Gee, ya think?

The Daily Caller News Foundation conducted an investigation by Luke Rosiak. He asserts that she is breaking the law by not disclosing documents relating to her nonprofit, the Center for Global Policy Solutions, which is closely related to a for-profit consulting group, Group Policy Solutions LLC [my italics].

The nonprofit received millions of dollars from groups that have special interests in the Oversight Government Reform Committee headed by Rep. Cummings, and this possibly suggests that their donations to his wife's nonprofit will buy them favorable treatment like it probably did for those who donated to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State under the Obama administration. [In fact, donations to the Clinton Foundation dried up when she lost her political influence.] A complaint in this regard was filed to the IRS by the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC).

Three separate groups reportedly have requested the nonprofit's forms, and Rockeymoore Cummings has refused to disclose documents relating to her nonprofit. She also refused to discuss the matter with the NLPC and did not answer formal requests for records from the Daily Caller or the Washington Examiner. Instead, Mr. Cummings pulled out his Saul Alinsky "Rules for Radicals" and used rule number 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon" and charged that those of the NLPC who complained about his wife's refusal to turn over the documents are conservatives.

He never explained how their being conservatives would negate any legal issues because it simply conflates two unrelated issues!

Obfuscation is the key.

Sally Wagenmaker, a lawyer who specializes in nonprofit tax law, suggested that refusal to hand over the documents breaks the law.

“Wow. That’s illegal,” Wagenmaker asserted. “It’s interesting and sad. You have the right to get them. The organization absolutely is required to provide the information, so to not do so would appear to be flaunting the law.”

“As a family member of an elected official, we’d expect high-road, integrity, and compliance. If anyone should be responding promptly, it should be her. He should be above approach,” Wagenmaker added.

Rockeymoore Cummings gave no reason for her refusal to hand over the documents in spite of the fact that the IRS requires that nonprofits disclose information about their operations in exchange for their tax-exempt status on an IRS form called a Form 990.

Wagenmaker added:

"One of the policy reasons for disclosure is to be able to to illuminate conflict of interest, and the media’s role is to help illuminate that: is she trying to hide information, is she being secretive, does she think she’s above the law? And one of the ways that happens is through the required disclosure of 990s."

The report arises after Cummings recently subpoenaed President Trump’s business records. Trump filed a suit to block Cummings’ subpoena over these records.

Congressional Democrats, including Cummings, have called for hearings to investigate the Trump Foundation. However, the hearings might also raise concerns over whether Cummings and his wife have any conflicts of interests regarding his wife’s nonprofit. And just what's in those elusive documents of her nonprofit?

Tom Anderson, an investigator with the NLPC, said that nonprofits have to disclose their business practices:

The problem is there are millions of dollars coming into these entities from corporations and special interests with business before Elijah Cummings, and any time you have that, every rule has to be followed or else it opens the door for massive corruption. And that holds whether the politician in question is Donald Trump, Elijah Cummings or someone else.

The NLPC investigator said in a conversation with Cummings, he “went on to rant about how we’re a conspiracy right-wing group for super-mega billionaires, which sounds like something out of Star Wars.” That's Alinsky's rule 5 once again.

Anderson reiterated that Cummings did not provide any evidence to suggest his complaint to the IRS was wrong.

“We’re going to Johnson + Johnson, Prudential, lining up all the dots,” Anderson said, regarding companies that have donated to the nonprofit, suggesting that it could raise concerns over conflict of interest.

The American public awaits with great anticipation. Well, all except for the folks on the left.


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Avenatti's no good very bad days lie ahead

Michael Avenatti is going to start his no good day in Manhattan Federal Court, just a stone's throw from the Brooklyn Bridge and New York's Chinatown. When he's finished his day, not as a lawyer, but as a defendant, he might head out for some interesting Chinese food along Mott Street and perhaps order his favorite dish: Sum Dum Fool. It comes with sticky rice and 69 years in the slammer.

Avenatti, 49, is scheduled to be arraigned on charges of trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike, the athletic apparel-maker, by threatening to expose claims that they paid off high school basketball players to steer them to Nike-sponsored colleges.

But wait! That's not all.

The chrome-dome lawyer is also scheduled to be arraigned on charges that he stole nearly $300,000 from pornography performer and alleged Donald Trump one-night-stand accuser, Stormy Daniels, the client who rocketed him to national prominence and put a rocket in his pocket, a spring to his step, and a strange discoloration in his southern hemisphere.

In the Nike case, the shyster is charged with one count of extortion, one count of sending interstate communications with intent to extort and two counts of conspiracy.

And he wanted to be President almost as much as Brian Stelter wanted him to be, and also to sit in his lap.

But wait, that's not all.

In the Stormy Daniels case, Avenatti is charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. If convicted on all counts, Avenatti could face a total of 69 years in prison. Not surprisingly, Stormy Daniels laughed when she heard that number.

Avenatti repeatedly has denied any wrongdoing [LOL] and is expected to plead not guilty to all charges. He claims to be a prince of a guy, "unlike Trump, who I'd like to punch in his f***in' face," he said in his best DeNiro voice to Brain Flushings' Bobby "The Punim" Ortez.

Avenatti was initially arrested on March 25 at a New York law firm where he had scheduled a meeting with Nike executives to allegedly extort their company out of millions.

On March 19, six days prior to that meeting, prosecutors said, Avenatti and a co-conspirator, identified as CNN celebrity attorney, Mark Geragos, met with attorneys for Nike and "threatened to release damaging information" if the company did not agree to make multi-million dollar payments to them, as well as an additional $1.5 million payment to a California youth basketball coach Avenatti claimed to represent [and probably owed that money to and would have likely screwed out of the money if the guy really existed.]

According to the U.S. government, Avenatti threatened to hold a news conference on the eve of Nike's quarterly earnings call and the start of the NCAA tournament to announce allegations of misconduct by Nike employees, at one point telling Nike's lawyers he would "take ten billion dollars off your client's market cap . . . I'm not f***ing around."

Yes, he was serious and will probably serve serious time in the clink and become friendly with guys named Bubba and Sledge.

Avenatti was indicted formally in the Nike matter on Wednesday, the same day prosecutors indicted him in the Stormy Daniels case, in which they claimed Avenatti stole two payments totaling $297,500 from an advance Daniels was supposed to receive from a book deal in the summer of 2018. 

The book's tentative title was: "Put My Money Where My Other Greasy Money Is," according to "The Punim."

Court documents said Avenatti gave Daniels' literary agent an adulterated letter with her signature directing the agent to divert the money to an account controlled by Avenatti, who continues to prove his chances of becoming President of the United States of America. 

Avenatti then allegedly spent the money "on airfare, hotels, car services, restaurants and meal delivery, online retailers, payroll for his law firm and another business he owned, and insurance."

I'll say it again, what a prince of a guy.

The indictment said that after "The Stormster" asked Avenatti why she had not received the first payment, Avenatti lied and claimed he was still trying to extract the money from the publisher. Weeks later, the lawyer allegedly "used funds recently received from another source" to pay Daniels the amount she was owed -- $148,750.

Soon thereafter, prosecutors said Avenatti received another payment of $148,750 from Daniels' agent and used the money on personal expenses, including a lease payment on a Ferrari which he refused to allow Brian Stelter to ride in.

When Daniels asked for the remaining money, Avenatti allegedly misled her, claiming that it was the book's publisher who was refusing to pay the amount to her literary agent. She was ready to put a hit out on the guy if he didn't fork over the bread, but then she learned who the real scumcrumpet was--the guy who was living big on CNN--Michael Avenatti.

Avenatti's legal issues have been quite formidable, but his troubles are not limited to New York, [where Bill de Blasio's Big Apple has troubles of its own.]

In March, federal prosecutors in Southern California accused Avenatti of committing bank fraud and wire fraud by embezzling settlement money from not one, not two, but five clients, including a paraplegic man, to pay personal expenses and debts — did I mention he's a prince of a guy? He also embezzled from his coffee business and law firm and would have gone after Little Sisters of the Poor, but they don't have much money to steal.

It's even rumored that Avenatti stole the paraplegic man's wheelchair battery to use as a spare for his Ferrari and once kicked a puppy because it was cute.

His mother must have been so proud of him when he graduated correspondence law school with a C+ average. "That's my boy. That's my Mikey boy," she must've told her friends at the beauty parlor. "You should see him with the girls. They're all over him."

According to U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna, Avenatti also obtained $4.1 million in loans from a Mississippi bank by using fraudulent tax returns that stated he made more than $14 million of his own money between 2011 and 2013 and had paid more than $1 million in estimated taxes to the IRS in 2012 and 2013. 

In fact, investigators said, Avenatti owed the IRS $850,438 plus interest and penalties for the years 2009 and 2010, paid no personal income taxes for 2011, 2012 and 2013 and paid no estimated taxes in 2012 and 2013. In other words, Avenatti is a deadbeat, in the spirit of Bernie Sanders.

What a prince of a guy. Especially for what he did to the paraplegic man.

If convicted of all 36 counts in the California case, Avenatti faces up to 335 years in prison. He will be 384 years old when he finally walks out of prison,  [not counting the 69 years New York would have him serve], but he will not be permitted to practice law, even if somehow he wasn't disbarred because robots will be litigating by then.


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IRS took 3 years to release its hit list

It only took 3 years after the IRS admitted that they singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny that would hopefully deny them their tax-exempt status, the corrupt organization finally released a near-complete list of the organizations targeted. 

The list numbers 426 at this time and depicts just how much these jerks slow-walked applications for the tax exemption. The Treasury Department's inspector general had only identified 298 groups in May 2013.

The Washington Times was the first to report on the list, which was filed by the IRS last month. It was part of a class-action lawsuit led by Tea Party organizations.

The Times reported that 60 of the groups' names contained the word "tea," 33 contained the word "patriot," 8 used the word "Constitution" and 26 had the word "liberty" in the organizations' title.

One attorney working for one of the conservative organizations said that the number may have grown since 2013 as the IRS targeted more liberal groups after the investigation began to cover their butts.

Tea Party Patriots has once again called for the impeachment of IRS head, John Koskinen. The arrogant geek has no intention of giving up his cash cow.

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Lerner learned from Hillary

It looks like Lois Lerner, the IRS official investigated for Tea Party targeting scandal, attended the Hillary Clinton School of Internet Insecurity. Now the IRS admitted in federal court that Lois had a second email account.

The name Lerner used on this covert account was "Toby Miles," the same name as her pooch. Why she chose a handle belonging to a mongrel is anyone's guess.

Nostril-flaunting Lerner

The IRS admission was first reported by The Washington Times on Monday in an open-records lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, who is currently suing to see pretty little Miss Lerner's emails that were sent during her targeting of conservative groups for further IRS scrutiny. The targeting goes way above and beyond how the IRS scrutinizes liberal groups.

Geoffrey Klimas, an attorney representing the IRS, told the court that another email account in addition to her official government account, was discovered as they prepared for the hearing.

"In the process of preparing this status report and for the August 24, 2015 release of Lerner communications, the undersigned attorneys learned that, in addition to emails to or from and email account denominated 'Lois G. Lerner' or 'Lois Home,' some emails responsive to Judicial Watch's request may have been sent to or received from a personal email account denominated 'Toby Miles,'" Klimas said.

Toby is the dog, Miles is her husband's last name.

The IRS concluded that the account was a personal one used by Lois Lerner, who, like Hillary, seems to never learn. They are reviewing previous releases to Judicial Watch and will provide an update in a few days to conclude if any new searches need to be done or any documents need to be re-released with different redactions.

Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch said that "This is the latest in a parade of obstruction from the IRS and the Department of Justice on these issues." And like the Hillary Clinton cluster fart, he pointed out to Fox News how putting sensitive government information on a non-government account was "disturbing."

Fitton explained that a special counsel should be appointed in this case as both the IRS and DoJ knew about the Toby Miles account for some time.

Fitton then added that "the IRS scandal is not over."

Neither are the Hillary Clinton scandals.


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Lois Lerner: "I look like crap"

Conservatives are "evil and dishonest,"  even "hateful," says the woman's emails who led the IRS in a frontal assault on conservative nonprofit organizations. She plead the Fifth Amendment after she testified of her innocence about her illegal involvement in the IRS scandal, and somehow got away with not testifying any further.

The newly released emails show us just who this woman with the 1967 hairdo and flat affect really is. Calling Republicans "evil and dishonest" while trying to put the screws to conservative nonprofits is doing God's work, in her dead eyes, I imagine.

The emails were part of a bipartisan report released by the Senate Finance Committee on August 6th. It shows Lerner "up close and personal" to use ABC's sportscaster, Jim McKay's oft used words.

The report found evidence that the Obama administration's political agenda and Lerner's personal politics impacted on how she did her job, as well as other employees with the same political bent, doing theirs, says Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) chairman of the Finance Committee.

The one issue Lerner was "right on the money" about was her statement regarding how the press handled the story. "I looked like crap," she said. "I don't look like that anymore, but it serves their purposes of hate mongering to continue to use those images."

She should have stopped writing after the first sentence. She will always have dead eyes and flat affect. She will always look like crap to those organizations of which she acted like crap to destroy.

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Sunday Brain Flushings--just sayin'

Marine Corps (pronounced "Core," Mr. Obama) Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi is still in a Mexican prison after making a wrong turn at the border. The administration has yet to lift a finger to free him or even get involved on the periphery. 

The American pastor Saeed Abenini is still in an Iranian prison and it has now been two years today since being incarcerated by the Shi'ite Muslims of Iran who say he was proselytizing Christianity. The Obama administration has done nothing to pressure this terrorist state to free him.

Russia invades Ukraine and Vladimir Putin wags his finger at the U.S. saying we have no right to invade a sovereign nation (implying that only he has that right). We hear crickets in the White House.

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel cannot even name the head of the Syrian rebels who we plan to supply with military arms and equipment at the cost of half a billion dollars from the taxpayers.

Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress and nothing was done about it. He refused to prosecute the New Black Panthers over voter intimidation that took place in Philadelphia during the last presidential election. We still don't know the true details of Fast and Furious, the IRS, and Benghazi, but Holder has just resigned with impunity.


The Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Hassan, killed 13 soldiers and an unborn child, screamed "Allahu Akbar" ("Allah is great") as he fired at unarmed servicemen and women. The incident was labeled "workplace violence" by the Obama administration.

It looks like the same thing is playing out over the attack by a Muslim convert who tried to convert his co-workers to Islam in Moore, Oklahoma. Failing that, he returned to the place of business where he was recently fired, shouted Islamic slogans (I'd put my money on "Allahu Akbar") beheaded a defenseless woman, stabbed another woman repeatedly and was stopped from killing her and others by a hero exercising his Second Amendment right. 

This leads me to ask the question: why did Obama invoke the name of a controversial Muslim cleric, Sheikh bin Bayyah, at his speech at the U.N.? The State Department had previously apologized for doing the same thing and removed a tweet they sent out praising him and his ideas. In 2004, this so-called cleric called for the killing of American troops.

Finally, I'd like to know why are White House press reports first handed over to the White House for review and if they don't pass muster, are edited before being given to the other White House press reporters. Doesn't that sound like our country is becoming a dictatorship when freedom of the press isn't really free?


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