Obama administration: Forcing Corporations to Fund Leftist Groups

[American_Jihad]

Oh the dumbocrats got that shakedown tactic from Jesse Jackson...

Judicial Watch Sues Justice Department for Records about Forcing Corporations to Fund Leftist Groups
JUNE 12, 2017

Billions of Dollars to Left-wing Groups Through Justice Department ‘Slush Fund’ Scheme

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records relating to an Obama administration policy of settling agency lawsuits against corporate defendants by requiring that the corporations make “donations” to left-wing interest groups La Raza, the Urban League and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:17-cv-01064)).

Judicial Watch filed the suit after the Justice Department failed to respond to its April 7, 2017, FOIA request seeking:

• All records discussing the policy or practice of settling [Department of Justice] lawsuits against corporate defendants by requiring donations to La Raza, the Urban League or the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

The time frame of the request was identified as January 1, 2013 through January 20, 2017.

Judicial Watch submitted its FOIA request in the aftermath of an extensive investigation by the House Judiciary and Financial Services Committee that found the Obama Department of Justice had “engaged in a pattern or practice of systematically subverting Congress’ budget authority by using settlements from financial institutions to funnel money to left-wing activist groups.”

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In a March 1 report, Fox News outlined how what it termed the “slush fund” worked:

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Judicial Watch Sues Justice Department for Records about Forcing Corporations to Fund Leftist Groups - Judicial Watch

 

[S.J.]

8 years of that crap from the Marxist Manchurian president.

 

[mamooth]

I got as far as "Judicial Watch", and broke down in laughter. Golly, Judicial Watch made up a story and filed some papers! That proves what they say is true!

Well, to the retard-brigade, it proves it. They're easily manipulated by fake news.

 

[RealDave]

Oh the dumbocrats got that shakedown tactic from Jesse Jackson...

Judicial Watch Sues Justice Department for Records about Forcing Corporations to Fund Leftist Groups
JUNE 12, 2017

Billions of Dollars to Left-wing Groups Through Justice Department ‘Slush Fund’ Scheme

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records relating to an Obama administration policy of settling agency lawsuits against corporate defendants by requiring that the corporations make “donations” to left-wing interest groups La Raza, the Urban League and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:17-cv-01064)).

Judicial Watch filed the suit after the Justice Department failed to respond to its April 7, 2017, FOIA request seeking:

• All records discussing the policy or practice of settling [Department of Justice] lawsuits against corporate defendants by requiring donations to La Raza, the Urban League or the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

The time frame of the request was identified as January 1, 2013 through January 20, 2017.

Judicial Watch submitted its FOIA request in the aftermath of an extensive investigation by the House Judiciary and Financial Services Committee that found the Obama Department of Justice had “engaged in a pattern or practice of systematically subverting Congress’ budget authority by using settlements from financial institutions to funnel money to left-wing activist groups.”

...

In a March 1 report, Fox News outlined how what it termed the “slush fund” worked:

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Judicial Watch Sues Justice Department for Records about Forcing Corporations to Fund Leftist Groups - Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch is yet another bunch of whiny right wingers. OMG OMG we can't fund groups that actually help people. OMG OMG OMG

Judicial Watch - now that's some funny chit.

 

[American_Jihad]

Don't worry we know how you lefties feel when JW gets all those documents through FOIA...

 

[American_Jihad]

We need to keep an eye on obongos deep state bank account, follow the money...
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2...onuses-office-lost-billions-fraud-corruption/
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2...onuses-office-lost-billions-fraud-corruption/
Education Official Got Secret Cash Bonuses as Office Lost Billions to Fraud, Corruption
MAY 31, 2017

The senior Obama Education Department official who resigned this month to avoid testifying before Congress got hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonuses despite his well-documented failures, sources inside the agency tell Judicial Watch. The extra cash was kept off the books, away from the public, and doesn’t appear on his official government salary record but Judicial Watch has obtained the figures with yearly breakdowns. The official, James Runcie, ran the scandal-plagued Federal Student Aid (FSA) office, the government’s $1.4 trillion financial aid program. It includes, among other things, administering more than $150 billion in loans, grants and work-study funds to help students pay for college.

Under Runcie’s leadership there was pervasive fraud and corruption at the FSA, government sources tell Judicial Watch, including skirting federal rules to hire friends and family and hefty off-the-books cash bonuses despite the FSA’s documented transgressions. Just last week the Education Department Inspector General told Congress that the FSA made an astounding $6 billion in improper payments in 2016 alone as part of federal student aid programs. The figure includes $2.21 billion in improper Pell Grant payments and $3.86 billion as part of the Direct Loan program. These are disbursements that either shouldn’t have been made, went to the wrong recipient, were for an incorrect amount or were not properly documented. Each year the problem gets worse, according to Kathleen Tighe, Inspector General for the Education Department. Improper payments for the Federal Direct Loan program swelled from $1.28 billion in 2015 to $3.86 billion in 2016 and from $562 million to $2.21 billion for the federal Pell Grant program, all under Runcie’s leadership.

As chief operations officer for the troubled financial aid program Runcie, a political appointee of the Obama administration, was scheduled to testify at the same hearing before the House Subcommittee on Government Operations. Instead, he resigned abruptly to avoid congressional scrutiny. The disgraced education official tried to portray himself as the victim of a new administration that wants to dismantle the FSA. In a resignation memo obtained by an online news outlet, Runcie wrote this: “I cannot in good conscience continue to be accountable as Chief Operating Officer given the risk associated with the current environment at the [Education] Department.” He went on to write that he has been “consistently on record and clear about not testifying at the upcoming hearing on improper payments” and that he had “not heard a single compelling reason” the Education Department would need him to testify.

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Education Official Got Secret Cash Bonuses as Office Lost Billions to Fraud, Corruption - Judicial Watch

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I got as far as "Judicial Watch", and broke down in laughter. Golly, Judicial Watch made up a story and filed some papers! That proves what they say is true!

Well, to the retard-brigade, it proves it. They're easily manipulated by fake news.

Better?
Justice’s Liberal Slush Fund