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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/395123-legal-experts-say-mueller-team-likely-gained-secret-access-to-nra-taxLegal experts say Mueller team likely gained access to NRA tax filings: report
By Avery Anapol - 07/02/18 07:59 AM EDT
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.
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babylonsister
Jul 2018
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safeinOhio
(32,674 posts)1. NRA members may want to check out Russian gun laws.
Soon to be coming our way with trumps ways. See what the gun laws are in all of those counties trumps call great like NL and Philippines too. Strong leaders need a week population,
CousinIT
(9,241 posts)2. Can we also assume Mueller has Trump's returns then? n/t
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)3. That sounds it would fit with "basic blocking & tackling"
talked about in the article.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)4. Believe all Non Profits have Federal filings that are
Public knowledge.