Government ethics watchdog files IRS complaint against wife of Elijah Cummings

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  1. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Poor Cummings. No sooner does his wife have a complaint filed against her, than he attacks Trump and then their home is burglarized.

    Or was it?

    Suppose due to the ethics complaint and the way the Feds bust into homes, such as with Cohen, it turns out the so called burglary is indeed connected to charges filed against her? Can you promise pinky me she is not involved in her own crimes?

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    BALTIMORE — A government ethics watchdog has filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service against a charity run by the wife of Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings.

    The complaint was filed on Monday by the National Legal and Policy Center against the Center for Global Policy Solutions, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headed by Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the Congressman's wife.

    Its main purpose, they say, is for the IRS to investigate whether "its organizers are getting fat off the grants."
     
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    I just knew the IRS was racist. I knew it.
     
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    It’s got to be racism if they investigate her. It’s how they roll:)
     
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    Oh, it’s racist alright, you can bet the farm on it. Right now there’s a secret white supremacist group within the NLCP who are enjoying the Picasso paintings they stole from Cummings’s house.
     
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    Obstruction? Tampering with evidence? Oh the irony if true.
     
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    punishing one's enemies or a legitimate complaint
     
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    Like the three year long Russia hoax about the peepee tapes and Russian hookers? No Russian hookers or video of Trump being peed on have materialized. This one is a legitimate complaint but we expect the left to throw her some major shade, spin, red herrings and denial the whole way.
     
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    What gets me is the pettiness of what the right are dragging out about anyone DARING to say anything about Trump whilst ignoring Trumps very very large and ongoing illegal activity

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    The evidence so far is far from convincing. Time will tell. If she has done bad, get her. If not, investigate the investigators.
     
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    What charges?
     
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    Gee, I wonder how they got proper standing to file such a complaint??
     
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    If it's a "Trumped up" investigation then hell yeah, investigate the investigators.

    Andrew McCabe still under investigation by federal prosecutors
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...ll-under-investigation-by-federal-prosecutors

    James Comey's next reckoning is imminent — this time for leaking
    Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz’s team referred Comey for possible prosecution under the classified information protection laws, but Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors working for Attorney General William Barr reportedly have decided to decline prosecution — a decision that’s likely to upset Comey's conservative critics.

    https://thehill.com/opinion/judicia...t-reckoning-is-imminent-this-time-for-leaking
     
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    The National Legal and Policy Center is a right wing front group that is used to launch vague political attacks like this for fundraising purposes and to promote right wing memes.

    It was founded by Richard Mellon Scaife, who was the principal financier of the “Arkansas Project” and who also financed Judicial Watch, and several other right wing groups whose speciality seems to be inventing and inserting these tropes in right wing media and social media.

    Like most of these vaguely named mysterious attack groups, they count on the audience taking what they say at face value (because it mirror’s the audience’s prejudices).

    As we can see from this thread, it works like a charm.
     
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    Right... because we all know that every penny of those grants, just like every penny of billions of dollars allocated to Baltimore has served the intended purpose of improving infrastructure, schools, combatting poverty and crime... After all these marked improvements in Baltimore's infrastructure, education, poverty and crime speak for themselves, do they not, Tom?

    PS your description of typical liberal MO and its projection on others was fun to read.
     
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    Yep. Had to be retaliation. It's not like Baltimore isn't a crime infested hell-hole or anything.
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    Baltimore's crime rate is higher than in 99.5% US cities. Cummings certainly could not have been a victim of burglary though.
    http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Baltimore-Maryland.html
     
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    Its "oversight".. No one is above the law...

    Sound familiar?
     
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    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I understand you supporting one of your own parties in Australia. I consider your postings the way I consider the Russian interference.

    Trump has no proven illegal operations. And you did nothing more than drop a turd into the punchbowl.
     
  20. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I know all about the deceased Scaife. Still attacking the dead I see.

    We believe the attacks on Trump are precisely what you allege is used vs Democrats such as the corrupt Cummings. Your side is supplied an army of liars by men like the billionaire Tom Steyer and others similar to him.
     
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    Well, we will see what else is in the Horowitz report. Generally these guys that miss used Federal Power against Trump seem lawless and unaccountable.

    What We Need To Know From The Horowitz Report.

    There are really on two questions to be answered: how much did the Obama Justice Department spy on the Trump campaign and was it justified?

    The FBI obtained successive warrants to spy on Carter Page and used informant Stefan Halper to gather information on other Trump campaign figures. The FBI sent an undercover agent, alias “Azra Turk” to London to tease information out of a Papadopoulos.

    Were there more?

    Dirty Bob Mueller had access to the results of the FBI’s spying, and Dirty Bob could not establish that there was any conspiracy or coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign. Even with a full two year investigation and full prosecutor powers, Dirty Bob could not find that ANY American took part in any such conspiracy.

    Hopefully Horowitz will fill in more of the story of how the Obama Administration came to illegally spy on an American Presidential campaign, and then it's holdovers continued to spy on the new Administration, coordinating with the Fake News Media to try to drive him from office.
     
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    Yet he donates his salary as POTUS.
     
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    Wow not looking good for the Cummings family...another dem involved in a tax cheat scam...is anyone surprised?
     

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