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Tax Cheat Mitt Romney Calls for a Special Prosecutor To Investigate the IRS
Tax Cheat Mitt Romney Calls for a Special Prosecutor To Investigate the IRS
There is an old proverb that says, People who live in glass houses shouldnt throw stones, and it basically means one shouldnt criticize others if you have weaknesses yourself; it means the person throwing stones is a hypocrite. There are few Americans who could legitimately disagree that Republicans are rank hypocrites, and on Friday the master of hypocrisy and mendacity, Willard Romney, sat in his proverbial glass house and hurled stones at the Internal Revenue Service for doing its job in scrutinizing conservative liars claiming they were tax exempt social welfare organizations when in reality they were partisan political campaign fundraising groups. The master of mendacity called for a special prosecutor to explore criminal issues and determine who knew why the IRS reviewed, in equal measure, progressive, liberal, teabagger, and conservative applications for social welfare designation.
Roves CrossroadsGPS and Koch brothers Americans for Prosperity faced scrutiny by the IRS for lying on their applications, and instead of primarily promoting social welfare, poured money into conservative candidates campaign coffers and concealed their dirty money donors. Of course, Romney failed to note the Bush appointee heading the IRS investigated the NAACP, Greenpeace, and a church that opposed the Iraq war while Bush was president, or that Bushs appointee lead IRS scrutiny of progressive and conservative groups that media and Republicans dreamt up were solely teabagger patriot groups. However, no-one expects Republicans, or Willard Romney, to tell the truth that the IRS was doing its due diligence to distinguish legitimate social welfare applications from those steeped in perjury, and since Romney is calling for a special prosecutor to explore criminal issues, it is time to call for a special prosecutor to explore criminal issues during Romneys tenure at Bain Capital, his SEC and FEC filings, and perjury under testimony in during his business partners divorce.
First, and this is important, Romney can never claim that he is not responsible for his Bain Capital surrogates and operatives perjury and corruption in fraudulent business practices, because he stated shortly after the Benghazi attack that President Obama was wholly responsible for anything anyone in his administration did wrong. Fine, double standards work in the Republican world, but not in evaluating truthfully the corruption and fraud inherent in Romneys tenure as head of Bain Capital; especially after running his mouth about criminal issues. A special prosecutor delving into Willard Romney would certainly find no dearth of fraud and corruption, and if the prosecutor were not bought off by dark money or pressured by powerful conservative political groups, he would have little choice but to charge the Department of Justice with launching an investigation under the 1970 federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), as well as prosecute him for Federal Elections Commission (FEC) and Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) violations.
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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/2013/06/09/tax-cheat-mitt-romney-calls-special-prosecutor-investigate-irs.html
A Good Read
Edited to add a related article below...
Jun 9, 2:41 PM EDT
IRS manager: White House not involved in reviews
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A self-described conservative Republican who is a manager in the Internal Revenue Service office that targeted tea party groups told investigators that he, not the White House, set the review in motion, the top Democrat on the House watchdog committee said Sunday.
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IRS_INVESTIGATION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-06-09-14-41-58
IRS manager: White House not involved in reviews
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A self-described conservative Republican who is a manager in the Internal Revenue Service office that targeted tea party groups told investigators that he, not the White House, set the review in motion, the top Democrat on the House watchdog committee said Sunday.
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IRS_INVESTIGATION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-06-09-14-41-58
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Tax Cheat Mitt Romney Calls for a Special Prosecutor To Investigate the IRS (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Jun 2013
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SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)1. The IRS should release his tax records for good measure
tanyev
(42,623 posts)2. As serious as Sarah Palin calling for an investigation into use of campaign funds.