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Just a low level corruption thingy so move on.

Tam

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Obama Economic Adviser Austan Goolsbee Told Reporters How Much Koch Brothers Paid in Taxes in 2010Posted by Jammie on May 13, 2013 at 1:45 pm

Don’t forget, it was just low-level IRS employees involved in this mushrooming Obama scandal. Oh, by the way, this stuff is illegal.


[Austan] Goolsbee also learned how to punish the president’s political adversaries. The battle between the Koch bothers and President Obama hasn’t gotten as much coverage as that between George Soros and Republicans, but it is about as bitter. A New Yorker headline gives one side of the “The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.”71 Goolsbee entered the fray at an August 27, 2010, press briefing where he let slip that he knew that Koch Industries, a multibillion-dollar energy business run by the libertarian Koch brothers, had paid no income taxes. “[W]e have a series of entities that do not pay corporate income tax, some of which are really giant firms. You know, Koch Industries is a multibillion-dollar business,” Mr. Goolsbee told reporters during an on-the- record background briefing on corporate taxes.

Koch Industries is a privately held company and therefore their tax returns and tax payments are not normally publicly available. This recalls shades of Richard Nixon’s abuse of the Internal Revenue Service to collect information on his enemies, and there were serious questions of how Mr. Goolsbee obtained this information. At first, the White House sent Politico an email explaining that the information was publicly available and referenced testimony to the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board and Koch’s own website.72 But they were just dead wrong. How much taxes Koch Industries pays appears in neither place.

The Koch brothers, along with the tea party have been boegymen to the left for years now. It’s quite obvious Obama operatives had access to their tax records. But don’t forget, Obama’s outraged now that tea partiers are being targeted. Riiiight.

Tell us again how Obama didn't know his IRS was being used to punish his enemies. :?
 

Tam

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Treasury Department investigators completed but never released a 2011 law enforcement probe of White House economic advisor Austan Goolsbee, The Washington Examiner has learned.

The investigation by the Treasury Department Inspector-General for Tax Administration was sparked by Goolsbee's remarks during an Aug. 27, 2010, White House news briefing in which he appeared to possess confidential tax information on Koch Industries, the private conglomerate controlled by the Koch brothers, Charles and David.

"So in this country we have partnerships, we have S corps, we have LLCs, we have a series of entities that do not pay corporate income tax. Some of which are really giant firms, you know Koch Industries is a multi-billion dollar business," Goolsbee said.

It is illegal for government officials to make public confidential tax information. Goolsbee was chief White House economist at the time.

The Kochs have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into conservative and libertarian campaigns and causes, and are often invoked by President Obama and other liberal Democrats as poster boys for political abuses bred by "too much money in politics."

Six Republican senators requested the IG probe to determine if confidential tax records of individuals viewed by Obama as enemies were being passed around among senior staffers in the White House.

In the Aug. 10, 2011, email obtained by The Washington Examiner, Treasury Special Agent Daniel K. Carney said "the final report relative to the investigation of Austan Goolsbee's press conference remark is completed, has gone through all the approval processes."

But neither the report itself nor a summary of its findings have ever been made public. The report wasn't given to any of the six senators. The Kochs have never seen the report, either, according to a spokesman.


The investigation was conducted under Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Commission's criminal code, which Congress enacted following revelations of President Nixon's abuse of private tax information during the Watergate scandal. The second article of impeachment against Nixon in the House Judiciary Committee was based on those abuses.

Goolsbee did not return a reporter's telephone calls seeking comment.

Recent revelations that the IRS harassed an estimated 500 conservative, evangelical and pro-Israel groups seeking non-profit status during the 2010 and 2012 election campaigns have stirred new interest in Congress on the Goolsbee investigation.

Among the groups harassed by the IRS was Americans for Prosperity, a non-profit grassroots conservative activist group funded in part by David Koch. Obama's 2010 campaign described AFP as a "special interest front group run by the oil billionaire Koch brothers." Obama and many officials in his administration also criticized AFP in campaign speeches.

"It appears that this Koch situation was just the beginning," Rep. Devin Nunes, R-CA, told The Washington Examiner Wednesday. "It should have immediately stopped there."

Nunes is a member of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, which handles tax legislation.

The six GOP senators who demanded the IG probe were led by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-IA, who is the ranking minority member of the Senate Finance Committee.

In a letter to Treasury IG J. Russell George, the senators said Goolsbee's comment raised "a very serious allegation that [Obama] administration employees may have improperly accessed and disclosed confidential taxpayer information."

Unknown to the six senators, their inquiry concerning Goolsbee's remark came during the period when IRS Exempt Organization officials were demanding that conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status "explain your relationship to Americans for Prosperity."

The tax agency demanded that the conservative groups disclose "copies of any contracts with AFP ... describe the training program by AFP ... and provide copies of the training materials" as a prerequisite of gaining tax exempt status.

Koch Industries officials have been repeatedly denied when they've requested copies of the IG report.

"The investigation was done and we've been denied access to it and my understanding is that we won't be able to get access to it," Koch attorney Mark Holden told The Washington Examiner.

IG spokesman David Barnes refused to discuss the report, saying "unfortunately, we can't provide any information on investigations."

But in his Aug. 20, 2011, email, Carney told Koch Industries in the August 2011 email that the report "would now be available through a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request."

Koch filed a FOIA request, but the IG office refused to acknowledge the report's existence, saying in a Sept. 12, 2011, letter that it "can neither admit nor deny the existence of responsive records."

On three other occasions when Koch representatives asked for copies of the report, Treasury Department and IG officials separately refused, with each saying only the other could release all or part of it.

Despite the veil of secrecy surrounding the report, Goolsbee claimed in a May 14 tweet that his information came from an article in a Florida newspaper that included no confidential tax information.

The words "the veil of secrecy surrounding the report" is something everyone that supports the Special Prosecutor investigation into the IRS needs to think about. Will the Report be released by the Obama Administration if it points a finger at the top of the Administration. Obama's top advisor Goolsbee got away with illegally accessing private tax records during the election so does anyone really believe the next and the next and the next OBAMA HITMAN LIKE GOOLSBEE will not get away with using the IRS to punish OBAMA'S/DEMOCRAT OPPONENTS?

LAWS MEAN NOTHING WHEN YOU HAVE THE DOJ BREAKING THEM AND THEN ASSIGNED THE JOB OF INVESTIGATING THEMSELVES AND OTHERS LIKE THE IRS BY AN INCOMPETENT ARROGANT STUPID GOLF PLAYING IDIOT PLAYING THE PART OF THE PRESIDENT. :mad:
 

Mike

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This Admin is making even Democrats more corrupt. If that is possible. :roll:

The first lesson in genetics is that everything is not Mendelian.
 

Tam

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When the threat of being called a racist stopped working, his goons chose to step up the punishing of his opponents by using the IRS to a point that enough Conservatives were involved that it could no longer be ignored by anyone with half a brain.

I hope the lawsuits keep flooding in and Obama has to open up ALL HIS RECORDS to settle with those targeted by HIS ADMINISTRATION. Clear the air of everything they have been hiding from the public and EXPOSE THE SO CALLED MOST TRANSPARENT PRESIDENT IN HISTORY FOR THE RACIST FRAUD HE IS ONCE AND FOR ALL.

But warning it will have to be done ASAP as I don't see the door of truth being open long, so those wanting to expose the true better move before the Liberal Bias media fall back in line and start drinking the koolaid again. :x
 
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