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Before Lois Lerner Targeted The Tea Party, She Helped The Clinton Foundation
Six years before she became the central figure in the IRS’s illegal targeting of Tea Party tax-exemption applicants, Lois Lerner cleared the way for the Clinton Foundation’s transformation from building a presidential library to being a $2 billion global political influence peddling machine, according to documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group.
She helped accomplish this feat through a 2007 letter on two legal issues of such magnitude that it’s unlikely the Clinton nonprofit could have become what it is in 2017, 20 years after its creation.
The first issue concerned an otherwise innocuous sounding merger of two nonprofits, while the second issue centered around an unprecedented expansion of the foundation’s activities far beyond its tax-exempt mission.
“You recently furnished us information that the Clinton Foundation HIV-AIDS Initiative, Inc. merged with The William J. Clinton Foundation on Dec. 31, 2005,” Lerner wrote in an April 5, 2007, letter to the former president’s non-profit. “Based on the information submitted, we have determined that the merger does not affect your tax exempt status.”
Lerner was responding to a Dec. 28, 2006, letter to the IRS from Clinton Foundation Chief Executive Officer Bruce R. Lindsey. She made no mention in her response to a key sentence in Lindsey’s letter, which noted that “the Clinton Foundation HIV-AIDS Initiative continues to use its Employer Identification Number (EIN) …”
The IRS provided the Lerner and Lindsay Letters on May 11, 2017, to the Cause of Action Institute, a nonprofit government watchdog that represents TheDCNF in joint Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation concerning Clinton Foundation tax documents.
Continued use of the IRS-provided EIN should have been a red flag for Lerner because the HIV-AIDS Initiative ceased to exist as a legal entity in the merger. She would have known this fact from the Plan of Merger filed with Arkansas authorities. Lindsey gave the IRS a copy of the Articles of Merger Certificate issued by Arkansas Secretary of State Charlie Daniels, but not of the Plan of Merger.
Section II of the Plan of Merger provided that “on the effective date of the merger, all of the ownership interests in the Initiative shall be cancelled and all of the outstanding membership interests in the Foundation shall be all of the issued and outstanding membership interests in the Foundation.”
Section III provided that “at the time of the merger, the separate existence of the Initiative shall cease, and the existence and identity of the Foundation shall continue as the Surviving Nonprofit Corp.”
In other words, the HIV-AIDS Initiative’s EIN should have disappeared into the history books at that point because the organization it represented no longer existed. But Lindsey said the foundation expected to continue using the disbanded Initiative’s EIN.
Federal tax rules require a new EIN be created when a nonprofit becomes a “subsidiary” of another nonprofit but doesn’t require it if the nonprofit becomes a “division” of another. However, the Initiative became neither a subsidiary or division — it became dead.
“Lerner should have advised Lindsey that use of the Initiative’s EIN after its demise would be illegal, but she didn’t, either because she didn’t catch the significance of the issue or she wasn’t concerned about how Lindsey planned to use it,” charitable tax law expert Charles Ortel told TheDCNF.
Ortel is a former managing director of Dillon, Read & Co. in New York and was instrumental in exposing corporate fraud at GE in 2009.
It’s possible Lindsey separately discussed continued use of the Initiative’s EIN with the IRS before the April 5, 2007, letter, but the tax agency is contesting in a federal court TheDCNF’s Freedom of Information Act request for all documents associated with the Clinton Foundation’s tax-exempt status.
The Initiative ceased to exist legally in 2005, but within a few months, it signed agreements with the governments of Australia and Papua New Guinea for them to pay for hundreds of millions of dollars for HIV-AIDS drugs.
The second issue also hangs on what Lerner didn’t say in her 2007 letter. Besides the merger, Lindsey told the IRS that “the activities of the William J. Clinton Foundation have been expanded to include activities in addition to the activities described in Part II, paragraph 1 of Form 1023 filed in December 1997.”
That paragraph spoke only of designing and building the Clinton presidential library, which was completed in 2004. Lindsey’s 2006 letter listed seven new areas of activities — several of which had in fact begun as early as 2001.
While the Lindsey letter appears to be the first time the IRS was told about the new activities, the foundation had been quietly manipulating its mission description in its annual tax return for years.
The new activities included, for example, “programs in various foreign countries, carried out in partnership with and under the auspices of the governments of those countries, to assist in providing care and treatment for persons, especially children, afflicted with HIV and AIDS.”
There were also to be programs in the U.S. and overseas to help victims of natural disasters, to “provide comprehensive educational and economic development opportunities in the developing world,” to “combat climate change,” to “address the problem of childhood obesity,” to “provide technical assistance and strategic advice to small businesses in urban areas,” and to host a “non-partisan meeting” of political and business leaders from around the world “to address global problems, with each participant asked to make a personal commitment to take some form of direct action.”
None of these activities were covered in the foundation’s 1997 Form 1023 application for tax exemption, nor were they covered by the Jan. 29, 1998, IRS approval of the nonprofit’s exempt status. Lindsey’s listing of the unapproved activities in the 2006 letter to the IRS suggests concern on his part and other foundation leaders that the new programs required specific approval to be tax-exempt.
But Lerner said nothing about the new programs in her response to Lindsey, perhaps leading him to think her silence represented official approval. Nothing in IRS regulations, however, encourages or endorses a “silence is consent” doctrine with regard to activities that aren’t already covered under a tax-exemption.
An unnamed Clinton Foundation press office official told TheDCNF that the non-profit is not required to seek IRS approval for new activities, citing a Louisiana State University law professor. The IRS Media Relations Office promised responses to TheDCNF’s questions but they were not received by posting time.
Chelsea Manning walks free from prison after 7 years – tell me what YOU think!
May 17, 2017 by Bristol Palin
Pvt Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier convicted of giving classified government materials to WikiLeaks, was released from a Kansas military prison on Wednesday after serving seven years of her 35-year sentence.
Army spokesperson confirmed for DailyMail.com that Chelsea Manning had left Fort Leavenworth in the early hours of Wednesday at around 2am local time. The Army previously refused to say when and how she would be freed due to potential security concerns
President Barack Obama granted 29-year-old Manning clemency in his final days in office in January.
By the way, this is how Chelsea used to look when he was called Bradley:
The Pentagon will provide sex-change operations to some active-duty transgender service members if a military doctor determines that surgery is required to treat the individual’s gender dysphoria.
What do YOU think of military funding for sex changes when we still are dropping the ball on basic care to other service members and veterans?
Breaking: Judge Reveals Scalia Wiretap Bombshell…Media Dead Silent
BY JOHN FALKENBERG
Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano just made a stunning claim about the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and President Barack Obama.
In a segment this week on the Fox News Business Network’s “Mornings With Maria,” Napolitano said he was told by Scalia that Scalia thought the Supreme Court was under surveillance by the administration of former President Barack Obama.
“Justice Scalia told me he often thought the court was being surveilled, and he told me that probably four or five years ago,” Napolitano said in the clip shown below.
Whoa.
That’s huge for a couple of reasons.
First of all, if that claim is true, it’s a gross overreach of the executive branch into the judicial branch, to say the least. But much, much more than that, think of the massive rulings that were made over the course of the Obama presidency:
Two crucial Obamacare rulings. Gay marriage legalized nationwide — one of the most controversial rulings in recent memory. And if Obama’s White House really did have the Supreme Court under surveillance, Obama could have been inappropriately informed about all of it.
And, as the judge pointed out in the segment, “the use of intelligence data for political purposes is a felony.”
Let’s not forget that President Donald Trump had also made similar accusations against the Obama administration not long ago
It’s a strange coincidence for several prominent politicians — including Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who has recently made formal requests for information on his own possible surveillance by the Obama administration — to be claiming the same injury against a man not really known for his uprightness and honesty.
Could there be some truth to this?
At the Conservative Tribune, we’ve discussed Obama’s fascination, shall we way, with surveillance before — this is just further confirmation.
But by all means, mainstream media, go nuts about whatever conversation was had between Trump and the Russians last week.
Please share this story on Facebook and Twitter and let us know what you think about what Judge Napolitano says Justice Antonin Scalia told him.
How do you think Napolitano's statement should be investigated?
In a segment this week on the Fox News Business Network’s “Mornings With Maria,” Napolitano said he was told by Scalia that Scalia thought the Supreme Court was under surveillance by the administration of former President Barack Obama.
“Justice Scalia told me he often thought the court was being surveilled, and he told me that probably four or five years ago,” Napolitano said in the clip shown below.
Whoa.
That’s huge for a couple of reasons.
First of all, if that claim is true, it’s a gross overreach of the executive branch into the judicial branch, to say the least. But much, much more than that, think of the massive rulings that were made over the course of the Obama presidency:
Two crucial Obamacare rulings. Gay marriage legalized nationwide — one of the most controversial rulings in recent memory. And if Obama’s White House really did have the Supreme Court under surveillance, Obama could have been inappropriately informed about all of it.
And, as the judge pointed out in the segment, “the use of intelligence data for political purposes is a felony.”
Let’s not forget that President Donald Trump had also made similar accusations against the Obama administration not long ago
It’s a strange coincidence for several prominent politicians — including Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who has recently made formal requests for information on his own possible surveillance by the Obama administration — to be claiming the same injury against a man not really known for his uprightness and honesty.
Could there be some truth to this?
At the Conservative Tribune, we’ve discussed Obama’s fascination, shall we way, with surveillance before — this is just further confirmation.
But by all means, mainstream media, go nuts about whatever conversation was had between Trump and the Russians last week.
Please share this story on Facebook and Twitter and let us know what you think about what Judge Napolitano says Justice Antonin Scalia told him.
How do you think Napolitano's statement should be investigated?
Private Eye Digs up Evidence of a Dem Assassination Plot Gone Wrong
BY BEN MARQUIS
In July 2016, a staffer for the Democrat National Committee in the nation’s capitol named Seth Rich was murdered a mere block from his home, shot twice in the back in what was quickly ruled a robbery gone wrong, despite reports that nothing of value was stolen from Rich, prompting a variety of conspiracy theories to explain his death.
Those theories just received a massive renewal of interest following a bombshell report from WTTG in D.C. that a private detective has found evidence suggesting Rich had been in contact with WikiLeaks via email shortly before his murder, fueling speculation that he was the source of the voluminous leak of embarrassing DNC documents and emails published online just a couple of weeks after the murder.
Retired D.C. homicide detective Rod Wheeler, reportedly hired by a third party to conduct a parallel investigation of Rich’s murder, also stated that he believed law enforcement agencies, specifically the D.C. Metro police and FBI, have engaged in a cover-up and were deliberately slow-walking their investigation.
“The police department nor the FBI have been forthcoming. They haven’t been cooperating at all,” Wheeler said. “I believe that the answer to solving his death lies on that computer, which I believe is either at the police department or either at the FBI. I have been told both.”
Asked whether his sources inside law enforcement have told him there were connections between Rich and WikiLeaks, Wheeler replied: “Absolutely. Yeah. That’s confirmed.”
“I have a source inside the police department that has looked at me straight in the eye and said, ‘Rod, we were told to stand down on this case and I can’t share any information with you,’” Wheeler added. “Now, that is highly unusual for a murder investigation, especially from a police department. Again, I don’t think it comes from the chief’s office, but I do believe there is a correlation between the mayor’s office and the DNC and that is the information that will come out (Tuesday).
Supporting Wheeler’s assertion was a report from Fox News citing an anonymous federal investigator who revealed that an initial FBI report on the murder had found that Rich had been in contact with the now-deceased Gavin MacFayden, a close associate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
“I have seen and read the emails between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks,” the unnamed investigator revealed, adding that the emails were in the possession of the FBI and that the D.C. Metro police have indeed stalled their own case.
The investigator further stated that Rich had transferred some 44,053 emails and 17,761 attachments — all dated between January 2015 and May 2016 — to MacFayden prior to May 21, just weeks before he was murdered.
To be sure, D.C. police have declared false Wheeler’s assertion that they were told to stand down, and the FBI has declined to comment on the ongoing investigation. Furthermore, the Rich’s family has sought to distance itself from Wheeler and criticized his findings, calling them false and unhelpful.
The U.K. Daily Mail reported on a statement released by a representative for the Rich family that declared “we see no facts, have seen no evidence, we have been approached with no evidence and only learned about (Wheeler’s claims) when approached by the press.”
“Even if tomorrow, an email was found, it is not a high enough bar of evidence to prove any interactions as emails can be altered and we’ve seen that those interested in pushing conspiracy theories will stop at nothing to do so,” the statement continued. “We are a family who is committed to facts, not fake evidence that surfaces every few months to fill the void and distract law enforcement and the general public from finding Seth’s murderers.”
“The services of the private investigator who spoke to press was offered to the Rich family and paid for by a third party and contractually was barred from speaking to the press or anyone outside of law enforcement or the family unless explicitly authorized by the family,” the family statement added.
It is worth pointing out that WikiLeaks has shown great interest in the murder of Seth Rich, even offering a reward of $20,000 to anyone who can help lead to an arrest and conviction in the case. It has also adamantly disputed the unverified claim put forward by Democrats and the media that Russia was behind the hacking of the DNC documents.
Please share this on Facebook and Twitter to help spread the word about this private detective claiming that he has seen evidence that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich was the source of the WikiLeaks DNC dump.
Those theories just received a massive renewal of interest following a bombshell report from WTTG in D.C. that a private detective has found evidence suggesting Rich had been in contact with WikiLeaks via email shortly before his murder, fueling speculation that he was the source of the voluminous leak of embarrassing DNC documents and emails published online just a couple of weeks after the murder.
Retired D.C. homicide detective Rod Wheeler, reportedly hired by a third party to conduct a parallel investigation of Rich’s murder, also stated that he believed law enforcement agencies, specifically the D.C. Metro police and FBI, have engaged in a cover-up and were deliberately slow-walking their investigation.
“The police department nor the FBI have been forthcoming. They haven’t been cooperating at all,” Wheeler said. “I believe that the answer to solving his death lies on that computer, which I believe is either at the police department or either at the FBI. I have been told both.”
Asked whether his sources inside law enforcement have told him there were connections between Rich and WikiLeaks, Wheeler replied: “Absolutely. Yeah. That’s confirmed.”
“I have a source inside the police department that has looked at me straight in the eye and said, ‘Rod, we were told to stand down on this case and I can’t share any information with you,’” Wheeler added. “Now, that is highly unusual for a murder investigation, especially from a police department. Again, I don’t think it comes from the chief’s office, but I do believe there is a correlation between the mayor’s office and the DNC and that is the information that will come out (Tuesday).
Supporting Wheeler’s assertion was a report from Fox News citing an anonymous federal investigator who revealed that an initial FBI report on the murder had found that Rich had been in contact with the now-deceased Gavin MacFayden, a close associate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
“I have seen and read the emails between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks,” the unnamed investigator revealed, adding that the emails were in the possession of the FBI and that the D.C. Metro police have indeed stalled their own case.
The investigator further stated that Rich had transferred some 44,053 emails and 17,761 attachments — all dated between January 2015 and May 2016 — to MacFayden prior to May 21, just weeks before he was murdered.
To be sure, D.C. police have declared false Wheeler’s assertion that they were told to stand down, and the FBI has declined to comment on the ongoing investigation. Furthermore, the Rich’s family has sought to distance itself from Wheeler and criticized his findings, calling them false and unhelpful.
The U.K. Daily Mail reported on a statement released by a representative for the Rich family that declared “we see no facts, have seen no evidence, we have been approached with no evidence and only learned about (Wheeler’s claims) when approached by the press.”
“Even if tomorrow, an email was found, it is not a high enough bar of evidence to prove any interactions as emails can be altered and we’ve seen that those interested in pushing conspiracy theories will stop at nothing to do so,” the statement continued. “We are a family who is committed to facts, not fake evidence that surfaces every few months to fill the void and distract law enforcement and the general public from finding Seth’s murderers.”
“The services of the private investigator who spoke to press was offered to the Rich family and paid for by a third party and contractually was barred from speaking to the press or anyone outside of law enforcement or the family unless explicitly authorized by the family,” the family statement added.
It is worth pointing out that WikiLeaks has shown great interest in the murder of Seth Rich, even offering a reward of $20,000 to anyone who can help lead to an arrest and conviction in the case. It has also adamantly disputed the unverified claim put forward by Democrats and the media that Russia was behind the hacking of the DNC documents.
Please share this on Facebook and Twitter to help spread the word about this private detective claiming that he has seen evidence that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich was the source of the WikiLeaks DNC dump.
Report: Top Trump Officials Behind Anti-Trump Leaks to Media
It’s no secret that the Trump White House has a serious problem with leaks. Since President Donald J. Trump took office, individuals looking to damage this administration have fed stories to the liberal media on a regular basis.
Earlier this year, President Trump told Fox News that he believed Obama officials that still work in all areas of government are behind many of the leaks that plague the White House, many of which have serious national security implications.
While President Trump may be correct that disgruntled Obama officials may be trying to destroy this White House, a new report suggests that some of the anti-Trump leaks are coming from within his very own team.
While President Trump may be correct that disgruntled Obama officials may be trying to destroy this White House, a new report suggests that some of the anti-Trump leaks are coming from within his very own team.
Two separate National Security Council sources have confirmed that National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster and Deputy National Security Advisor Dina Powell have been leaking negative material about President Donald J. Trump to their allies in the anti-Trump media, GotNews can exclusively report.
“It’s very hard when your boss, the President, and your boss, the NSC advisor, see the world so differently,” says one staffer, who opposes regime change in Syria.
Staffers on the National Security Council describe a culture of intimidation, especially for those who didn’t come in under McMaster and support the Trump campaign’s commitment to put America First.
“It’s like the Bush years never ended,” notes one staffer who didn’t come in under McMaster. “I didn’t sign up for this shit and the American people didn’t vote for it.”
“It’s very hard when your boss, the President, and your boss, the NSC advisor, see the world so differently,” says one staffer, who opposes regime change in Syria.
Staffers on the National Security Council describe a culture of intimidation, especially for those who didn’t come in under McMaster and support the Trump campaign’s commitment to put America First.
“It’s like the Bush years never ended,” notes one staffer who didn’t come in under McMaster. “I didn’t sign up for this shit and the American people didn’t vote for it.”
For those of you that forgot, McMaster was brought into the White House following the firing of Michael Flynn. McMaster and Dina Powell are not Trump loyalists, and had no affiliation to the president prior to his election.
Given this important fact, it is not inconceivable to think that career government employees, even though they work for the president, would be behind the anti-Trump leaks that continue to flow out of this White House.
President Trump is not a typical politician, and McMaster and Powell are part of the D.C. establishment that Trump has attacked for years. If the president feels that these two are responsible for leaking to the press, he should fire them immediately. The liberal media forced him to fire Michael Flynn, and if this report is true, it’s no surprise that the left praised the choice of McMaster to serve as National Security Adviser.
Would you be surprised if McMaster and Powell were the source of the leaks
Given this important fact, it is not inconceivable to think that career government employees, even though they work for the president, would be behind the anti-Trump leaks that continue to flow out of this White House.
President Trump is not a typical politician, and McMaster and Powell are part of the D.C. establishment that Trump has attacked for years. If the president feels that these two are responsible for leaking to the press, he should fire them immediately. The liberal media forced him to fire Michael Flynn, and if this report is true, it’s no surprise that the left praised the choice of McMaster to serve as National Security Adviser.
Would you be surprised if McMaster and Powell were the source of the leaks
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