{"id":60562,"date":"2025-08-18T15:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60562"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:32:10","slug":"blocking-an-important-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=60562","title":{"rendered":"Blocking An Important Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, Just the News<\/a> reported that the Internal Revenue Service, under President Trump is opposing an investigation into the Clinton Foundation. The opposition is based on procedural and administrative law.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

A U.S. Tax Court judge has tentatively scheduled a Dec. 1 trial allowing two whistleblowers to show they were wrongly denied an award for identifying alleged tax irregularities inside Bill and Hillary Clinton\u2019s foundation, but the case is meeting resistance from an unexpected source: the Trump administration.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Internal Revenue Service under Trump filed a motion last week in the case brought by retired federal agent John Moynihan and private fraud expert Larry Doyle seeking to dismiss the case. Judge Alina I. Marshall<\/a> set a deadline <\/a>of September 15 for the petitioners to respond to that motion. The IRS also filed leave for an extension of time to file the Administrative Record with the court.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The agency argued that, as a matter of administrative and procedural law, the judge should not let the case proceed to trial because after an initial review, the IRS declined to look into the whistleblower complaint and, therefore, the plaintiffs don\u2019t have standing to sue.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIn this case, the Whistleblower Office denied petitioners\u2019 claims because the petitioners\u2019 claims were never considered in an IRS action. Here, the Whistleblower Office forwarded petitioners\u2019 claims to a classifier,\u201d the IRS motion to dismiss argued last week \u201cFollowing the classifiers\u2019 preliminary review, the Classifier declined to forward petitioners\u2019 claims to exam and recommended that it be forwarded to the CI [criminal investigation] division.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe IRS did not proceed with any potential action when it investigated petitioners\u2019 claims,\u201d the IRS added.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

The effort by the IRS to thwart the whistleblower case from going to trial was filed the same week Just the News<\/em> reported that a bombshell memo<\/a> recently uncovered by FBI Director Kash Patel shows the Obama Justice Department and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe roadblocked three separate probes into possible pay-to-play corruption allegations against the Clinton Foundation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cShut it down,\u201d Obama Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates was quoted as saying in March 2016 in the memos.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can read that memo here:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/i> FBI Memos – Classified Leak Investigations – Declassified<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

…Doyle told Just the News <\/em>the latest twist is just another example of the resistance the government has displayed to investigating the Clinton Foundation over many years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNot surprising that the IRS would seek to dismiss our case in this fashion simply because that is the same tactic the IRS deployed in our initial case ongoing now almost 6 years in US Tax Court and growing more serious everyday,” he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At some point Americans are going to get totally fed up with the two-tiered justice system and the torches and pitchforks are going to come out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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