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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 01:55 AM Jun 2017

There IS a god! Robert Mercer's 97 BILLION Hedge fund is target of IRS.

The Internal Revenue Service is demanding a whopping $7 billion or more in back taxes from the world’s most profitable hedge fund, whose boss’s wealth and cyber savvy helped Donald Trump pole-vault into the White House.

Suddenly, the government’s seven-year pursuit of Renaissance Technologies LLC is blanketed in political intrigue, now that the hedge fund’s reclusive, anti-establishment co-chief executive, Robert Mercer, has morphed into a political force who might be owed a big presidential favor.

With Trump in the Oval Office, Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, who has become his public voice, seem armed with political firepower every which way you look – and that’s even though presidential adviser Stephen Bannon, their former senior executive and political strategist, appears to have recently lost influence.

The Mercer Family Foundation, run by Rebekah Mercer, also has donated millions of dollars to conservative nonprofit groups that have called for the firing of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, an Obama administration holdover whose five-year term expires in November.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article147454324.html
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Thing is, Donnie 2 scoops is in no position to repay the Mercers for buying the election for him via Cambridge Analytica.

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There IS a god! Robert Mercer's 97 BILLION Hedge fund is target of IRS. (Original Post) dixiegrrrrl Jun 2017 OP
DISTRIBUTE THAT 97 BILLION to States to rebuild infrustructure. Give $$ to people for medical care trueblue2007 Jun 2017 #1
Naw - a real god, a just god, would make the IRS moonscape Jun 2017 #2
Taxes are for little people Midnight Writer Jun 2017 #3
Yes! smirkymonkey Jun 2017 #4
Lock him up. oasis Jun 2017 #5
We need FASTER justice. Seven year pursuits gives power to perpetrators and gave us a con man prez lostnfound Jun 2017 #6
That's what happens when you hang around with the wrong crowd. duncang Jun 2017 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author Kathy M Jun 2017 #11
Great article Phoenix61 Jun 2017 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author Kathy M Jun 2017 #9
Traitors and crooks dalton99a Jun 2017 #10

moonscape

(4,673 posts)
2. Naw - a real god, a just god, would make the IRS
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 03:30 AM
Jun 2017

demand 97b. Make that 98b so he had to eat at soup kitchens.

lostnfound

(16,179 posts)
6. We need FASTER justice. Seven year pursuits gives power to perpetrators and gave us a con man prez
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 08:24 AM
Jun 2017

It bugs me that trump had to get elected PRESIDENT before prosecution. We need faster justice for white collar crime. When they get away with it, it enriches them, they get more powerful, they do their damage, and our economy and society remains polluted by corruption.

Faster justice would get them out of society faster, AND would send a stronger message to others who want to do the same.

duncang

(1,907 posts)
7. That's what happens when you hang around with the wrong crowd.
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 08:34 AM
Jun 2017

If associated with dipshit donnie it's like having a albatross around your neck.

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