UPDATE-IRS abruptly stopped criminal investigation of Mar-a-Lago member accused of massive tax fraud

[TheBlackAdder]

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It's out now, with a lot at the link:

William Ingraham Koch lives five blocks away from President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, where he is a member. The only one of the four billionaire Koch brothers to support Trump, Bill Koch even hosted a Trump campaign fundraiser at his Cape Cod vacation home in August 2016. Co-chairs were asked to donate or raise $100,000 for the event; simply attending cost $2,700.

Atop the invitation to Koch’s home? Trump Finance Chairman Steven T. Mnuchin, now Treasury Secretary of the United States, whose duties include overseeing the Internal Revenue Service.



In part one of the Koch Papers, we revealed that Bill Koch has enjoyed hundreds of millions of dollars of untaxed profits from his carbon-based businesses, having shifted profits earned in the United States to a subsidiary in the Bahamas. A 2016 whistleblower complaint prompted an IRS criminal investigation, but the IRS halted all communication with the whistleblower’s attorneys shortly after Trump became president.

In part two, we’ll explore how Koch’s businesses withheld critical documents, stymying IRS auditors. We’ll also publish the contents of the June 2017 email that signaled the IRS had stopped pursuing the complaint against Koch’s businesses, five months after Trump took office.

These documents are among nearly a thousand pages obtained by DCReport@RawStory, which we refer to as the Koch Papers.

More at the jump:

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/irs-abruptly-stopped-criminal-investigation-of-mar-a-lago-member-accused-of-massive-tax-fraud-months-after-trump-took-office/


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[wryter2000]

1. Impeach Mnuchin

Even those of us who aren't for impeaching Trump now feel sure it will happen at the right time. (Like in the middle of the 2020 election.) But honestly, wouldn't impeaching a couple of corrupt cabinet officials be a great way to get the ball rolling now? Clearly, Barr and Mnuchin are breaking the law at Trump's behest.

I would love the spectacle of impeaching them. Most of the evidence would consist of Trump's orders to them to break the law. More evidence to use against Trump.

[TheBlackAdder]

2. Yep. This is a David Cay Johnson DC Report article, so there is legitimacy to it.

[wryter2000]

6. Love David Cay Johnston. N/t

[KPN]

3. Mnuchin's the type of guy I would just love

to meet in a dark alley late at night.

[maxsolomon]

14. why?

do you want to buy drugs from him?

[KPN]

21. Haha. No. But if you have to ask why, I'd better not say.

[maxsolomon]

25. yeah, i don't want you to get a visit from the FBI

so don't.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. The fix is in, in so many ways.

[cynical_idealist]

5. Absolut corruption

yet another koch sucker

[ancianita]

12. +1000

Charles Koch has been the #1 corrupter of democratic politics for 45 years.

[notdarkyet]

19. I thought he was dying.

[ancianita]

20. That would be his brother, David. Charles is too evil to die.

[calimary]

23. David Koch is dying? One less light on the planet.

And on our democracy.

[RoadMan]

7. Be an everyday schmuck and owe the IRS $5000

you'll see some activity.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. I am, and I'm on a payment plan now. Gotta fund those socialism-sucking moocher Red States.

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The moochers in Red States need to bleed money from Blue States because they can not run functional governments.

Conservatism is an abject failure in practice, though it sells well for the ignorance fucks who follow it.


So, when you read posts about those socialism-sucking under-producers, it's always some nebulous reasoning to justify the theft of money to provide for their lame asses who refuse to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I have no problem giving to people in tough times or who know their plight, but I take issue with conservatives who profess their disdain for socialism while sucking on the teet of it. They complain about paying for others in sloth, but have no issue doing the same--if it benefits them.

Most of them look at a program then can tap into as deserved. If they can't plug into it, then it's a tax on them.

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[Turbineguy]

8. After trump is out

they can abruptly start it up again.

[EleanorR]

10. IRS Commissioner, Charles Rettig, earns as much as $1 million in rental income from the Trump-brand

President Trump’s hand-picked IRS Commissioner, Charles Rettig, earns as much as $1 million in rental income from the Trump-branded properties he co-owns while facing demands from Congress to release Trump’s tax returns.

https://www.citizensforethics.org/irs-commissioner-charged-with-releasing-trump-tax-returns-profits-from-trump-branded-property/

[bigbrother05]

11. Maybe Trump's returns aren't the only ones they should ask for

Finance Committee should open a special subcommittee to investigate the IRS/Treasury.

[ancianita]

13. Absolutely. So much for the IRS being some "independent" entity. Billionaires own the IRS,

and pay them as much as they want.

They've said so.

[avebury]

15. The Congressional committe with oversite of the IRS

needs to hold a hearing on this.

[pbmus]

16. Only poor people pay taxes...

[Politicub]

17. So brazen. Makes my blood boil.

And the entire GOP is culpable.

[rgbecker]

18. Don't forget the money spent to fight the off shore windmills.

He opened a fully staffed office and sent people around to fishermen groups and environmentalists (concerned about damaging the sea floor) to raise more money and opposition to the plan which would put windmills in waters just off his shore line south of Cape Cod. They were in business for about 5 years until finally all financing dried up for the project and a new site was established federally 15 or 20 miles south and (mostly, we hope) out of sight.

The whole family of 4 brothers are like Trump, spoiled rotten with inherited money and thoughtless of anyone else.

[SoCalNative]

28. Brother Fred

is not like the others. Did not go into the family business. Not a conservative by any means and uses his largess to support the arts and has been instrumental in finding and preserving many original and previously thought lost musical manuscripts from some of the world's most famous composers.

[SunSeeker]

22. K & R for exposure.

[Scurrilous]

24. K&R

[montanacowboy]

26. Leona Helmsly

said it best "Taxes are for the Little People"

[BlueJac]

27. K&R

[Ferrets are Cool]

29. Is it a dictatorship yet?

Asking sarcastically, because I already know the answer.

[Achilleaze]

30. republicans respect no laws, show their greed and lack of honor

sad how immoral the repubes are in these Latter Days - surely they will be consumed in the Freaking Flaming Pit of Hell that they imagine awaits the kind of liars, cheaters, and overall ignoble and duplicitous wankers they have devolved to become.

[duforsure]

31. Organized criminal activities

Conspiracy, cover up, and abuse of power all coming soon to all those involved to evade prosecution of their many, many crimes, while trump gets exposed to more impeachable offenses.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

32. Their handbill for that event is so symbolic of what's wrong.....

with our entire system of corrupt crony capitalism and big money's ownership of what's supposed to be OUR government.

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