Follow up to $1.8 Billion Fund Could Funnel Money to Trump Allies – [see also No reparations for Black Americans. No student loan forgiveness. No UBI for average Americans. But reparations, treason forgiveness, and UBI for the Jan 6th insurrectionists & criminals who attacked Congress.] Acting US Attorney General [who obviously continues to act as Trump’s personal lawyer] issued an unprecedented agreement or memo, who knows, stipulating that the I.R.S. Must Drop Audits of Trump and Family [New York Times Gift Article]. The Justice Department on Tuesday expanded the agreement it reached this week with President Trump to resolve his extraordinary lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service to include a provision that would bar the agency from pursuing tax claims against the president, his family [all of them] or his businesses. In a one-page document signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and quietly posted on the department’s website, officials vowed not to pursue any matters, including those involving Mr. Trump’s tax returns, that are currently pending. The new provision was released just one day after Mr. Trump agreed to drop his suit in exchange for the creation of a $1.8 billion compensation fund for people he believes were wronged by federal investigations or prosecutions. The fund drew repeated criticism from Democrats when Mr. Blanche appeared before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee for a hearing on Tuesday morning. The New York Times reported last week that Mr. Trump’s talks with the Justice Department and the I.R.S. had included a measure calling on the I.R.S. to drop any audits of the president, his relatives or businesses. But that provision did not appear in the nine-page agreement laying out the terms to dismiss the lawsuit, which the department released Monday. In January, Mr. Trump, along with two of his sons and the Trump family business, sued the Internal Revenue Service for at least $10 billion over the leak of their tax returns during the president’s first term. The Trumps argued that the I.R.S. should have done more to prevent a former contractor from disclosing tax information to The New York Times and ProPublica…”
Section C of Blanche’s document “releases, waives, acquits, and forever discharges” Trump and “related or affiliated individuals … family or others filing jointly … trusts, parents, sister or related companies, affiliates and subsidiaries” from any future IRS pursuit…”
- For reference See Also 26 U.S. Code § 7217 – Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations. (a) Prohibition – It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.
- See also The Bulwark – Andrew Weissmann: Trump’s Slush Fund Isn’t Just Corrupt—It’s a Crime
- See also The New York Times Editorial Board Gift Article – There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This
- See also The New York Times Opinion – Jamelle Bouie – Now Give Me Money. A Lot of Money.
- See also Letter from Democrats, House Ways and Means Committee and Committee on the Judiciary, to Treasury, IRS and DOJ demanding documentation on the “Super Pardon” for Trump and family as well as details about the $1.776B slush fund.
