Good day all. Former Attorney General Eric Holder, arguably one of the most corrupt AG’s we’ve had in decades, if not a century, has been in the news again. The slush fund he had cooked up to pay off Liberal groups has just been shut down.
Obviously, there’s a lot more to this. Under Holder, the Department of Justice liked to sue companies that didn’t toe the Obama line. In order to make the suits go away, the companies would settle for a large pile of cash. The Holder DoJ would then, as part of the settlement, make the companies “Donate” to some liberal group that the company probably didn’t like. Here are the details from Fox News:
The Justice Department announced Wednesday it will no longer allow prosecutors to strike settlement agreements with big companies directing them to make payouts to outside groups, ending an Obama-era practice that Republicans decried as a “slush fund” that padded the accounts of liberal interest groups.
I’m beginning to see why the Mostly Stupid Media started pushing the story that Sessions was on his way out. Their pals in the SJW circles are going to see a major cut in their cash flow soon.
In a memo sent to 94 U.S. attorneys’ offices early Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he would end the practice that allowed companies to meet settlement burdens by giving money to groups that were neither victims nor parties to the case.
But, but, but all that money was going to good causes like shoes for transgendered wombats! What will they do now?? What undeserving group is going to get the Social Justice Warriors hard extorted money?
Sessions said the money should, instead, go to the Treasury Department or victims.
“When the federal government settles a case against a corporate wrongdoer, any settlement funds should go first to the victims and then to the American people—not to bankroll third-party special interest groups or the political friends of whoever is in power,” Sessions said in a statement.
And the response to this by the Social Justice Warriors when informed that the money tap had just been turned off?
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The Congress, knowing that the Progressives will one day return to office, (Since the GOP(e) is run my incompetent numbskulls to in love with themselves to finish them off), they’re looking to make sure that this sort of thing never happens again.
Earlier this year, Republican lawmakers introduced legislation that would prohibit the Department of Justice from requiring defendants to donate money to outside groups, after concerns that the settlements bypass congressional appropriations processes.
“This bill is oversight and action. Congress must not tolerate Justice Department political appointees using settlements to funnel money to their liberal friends,” Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who introduced the bill, said in a statement. “This is also an institutional issue. Once direct victims have been compensated, deciding what to do with additional funds recovered from defendants becomes a policy question properly decided by elected representatives in Congress, not agency bureaucrats or prosecutors.”
Wait, what? You mean Congress is actually going to do their job and strip power away from some bureaucrats? They want to make sure that any settlement funds go to the actual victims and not to some group that no one’s ever heard of and wouldn’t support if they did? I’m shocked! That’s really going to hit the Clintons in the wallet.
The fact is, Holder, acting for his lord and master, King Putt the Last, so thoroughly corrupted the Department of Justice, it may take decades to clean out. This is a good start, but a lot more work needs to be done. (Like firing the entire Civil Rights division and starting over)
Thatisall
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