[JUDICIALWATCH.ORG] Judicial Watch announced that U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered the Internal Revenue Service (IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... ) to report to him by June 29 the status of the recovery and release of emails of Lois Lerner ...the former head of the IRS Exempt Unit. She is a past president of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws and a member of the Massachussetts bar. She was held in contempt of Congress for her role in the IRS targeting of regime political enemies and refusing to testify. The dog ate her computer's hard drive with all her emails on it... and other IRS officials. The Court also ordered a court hearing, scheduling a status conference for July 1, 2015. The developments come in Judicial Watch's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking documents about the Obama IRS's targeting and harassment of Tea Party and conservative opponents of President B.O. (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Internal Revenue Service (No. 1:13-cv-01559)).
On June 18, Judge Sullivan ordered the IRS to produce information about emails recovered by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), the internal IRS watchdog agency:
[F]ile a supplemental report, setting forth any new information regarding: (1) TIGTA's recovery of emails from the backup tapes; (2) TIGTA's production of emails to the IRS; (3) the IRS's review of emails and production to the plaintiff; and (4) the status of the TIGTA investigation. This report shall be filed by no later than June 29, 2015.
The IRS had already responded to a prior June 4 Sullivan order requiring the IRS to provide answers by June 12 on the status of the Lerner emails the IRS had previously declared lost. Judge Sullivan issued the order after Judicial Watch raised questions about whether all of the emails recovered by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) had been turned over to the IRS, and if so, whether the IRS had duly processed the documents.
In its response filed June 12, the IRS declared it was in "the process of conducting further manual deduplication of the 6,400" emails, even though officials from TIGTA have stated they have already identified and removed emails that are duplicates. Contrary to previous agency claims that the emails were lost and unrecoverable, the IRS finally admits that it has as many as 6,400 new Lerner emails but won't promise to release them to Judicial Watch yet. Even though TIGTA already identified and removed duplicative emails, the IRS is in "the process of conducting further manual deduplication of the 6,400" emails, rather than reviewing them in response to Judicial Watch's FOIA requests that are more than two years old.
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pretty obviously only jail and loss of pension will make these lying feckless crapweasels pony the files up
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Ain't gonna happen, Frank. They're civil "servants" dontcha know. Exempt from that sort of thing.
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[ABCNEWS.GO] Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. returned to his family's Washington, D.C., home on Monday after leaving a halfway house where he lived for several months since serving 2½ years in prison for spending $750,000 in campaign money on bling for hoes personal items. That's a lot of Brut by Faberge.
Jackson, an Illinois Democrat, was released from the Volunteers of America halfway house in Baltimore in the morning and left in one of two black SUVs that were there for him. He traveled to his home in Washington, where family members say he's expected to stay. Took two SUVs to get him home, huh?
Jackson must spend three years on supervised release under jurisdiction of the U.S. Probation Office and complete 500 hours of community service. He briefly spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named outside the family's home when asked how he was doing. "Community service." That's the same thing as "community activism," right?
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And after all that time earning more than $7,000 a month in "social security" while in the can, he must have saved enough to run for office
[Rudaw] Fifteen former Iraqi ministers are among nearly 1,800 officials indicted for corruption this year, Iraq's Commission of Integrity has said.
Commission chief Hassan al-Yassiri told news hounds on Friday that arrest warrants had been issued for the accused and that the international police (INTERPOL) had been notified.
Yassiri said that 15 former ministers, 122 bigwigs and 1,668 civil servants had been indicted for stealing public funds, embezzlement, bribery, corruption and other charges.
The Al-Araby al-Jadeed news website quoted Yassiri as saying that the number was "for this year alone." He said he hoped that Iraqi authorities would act on the warrants to arrest the accused, and that INTERPOL had been notified of the names.
Yassiri said that 889 billion Iraqi dinars (more than $768 million) had been confirmed missing from the national treasury, and thon the lamr amounts were still to be investigated.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said after taking office in August last year that $45 billion was missing from the 2014 budget, when his predecessor Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... had been in charge.
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[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] The case was Horne v. U.S. Dept of Agriculture. Essentially a raisin farmer was fined (and the price of his crop similarly assessed) for not forfeiting their harvest to the USDA in a program where the government regulates supply and demand through production controls.
SCOTUS ruled 8-1 (Sotomayor dissent) the U.S. government cannot "take", or force destroyed, farming crops without compensation to the farmer under the fifth amendment "takings" clause.
The most consequential aspect of the ruling stems from 8 justices affirming that "personal property" is afforded the same constitutional protection as "real property. Specifically, in this case, if crops "taken" (or rendered removed from the market) for the public good, there must be compensation for the owner/farmer.
Under the Agriculture Department program, producers are required to relinquish a portion of their crops to ensure stable market decisions, but the percentage varies year to year based on how many raisins are produced.
Because the federal government sells the raisins, typically in noncompetitive markets, the producers receive a pro-rated share of the proceeds after administrative costs have been taken out. In some years, this "equitable distribution" is significant, but in other years it's nothing.
The Justices ruled in favor of the Hornes, who argued that USDA took their raisins for public use and violated the "takings clause" of the Fifth Amendment.
"The government has a categorical duty to pay just compensation when it takes your car, just as when it takes your home," Chief Justice John Roberts said in the opinion of the court. "This principal, dating back as far as the Magna Carta, was codified in the Takings Clause in part because of property appropriations by both sides during the Revolutionary War."
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Seems like such a common sense legal and just decision, you know Sotomayor "Wise Latina" would have to vote against it
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Sorry Darth, it was only a small blow.. Still waiting for the reversal of Kelo.......the irony is that the sale fell through and now all the property taken in Kelo is a deserted lot.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the former head of the IRS Exempt Unit. She is a past president of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws and a member of the Massachussetts bar. She was held in contempt of Congress for her role in the IRS targeting of regime political enemies and refusing to testify. The dog ate her computer's hard drive with all her emails on it...
Nouri al-Maliki
