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118th US Congress Rules & Investigations The Serious You: How Current Events Affect You
Started 2/11/23 by WALTER784; 40890 views.
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From: WALTER784
May-22
'I Will Name Names!': Harriet Hageman Outright Alleges That 'Tyrants' Wray And Garland Are Corrupt
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From: WALTER784
May-22
‘It’s Unbelievable’: GOP Lawmaker Demands DOJ & FBI Be Held Accountable After Durham Report
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From: WALTER784
May-27
House GOP Expands Probe Into Biden Election Interference, Targets DOJ Attorney Used to ‘Jump Start’ Trump Case
By Kyle Becker
April 9, 2023 Updated: April 10, 2023
The House Judiciary Committee is ratcheting up its investigation into Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office over last week’s historic indictment of former President Donald Trump.
On Friday, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to Manhattan DA Senior Counsel Matthew Colangelo requesting a transcribed interview, The Federalist reported.
“Given your history of working for law-enforcement entities that are pursuing President Trump and the public reporting surrounding your decision to work for the New York County District Attorney’s Office, we request your cooperation with our oversight in your personal capacity,” Jordan wrote.
The committee is demanding Colangelo “hand over documents related to his hiring and sit down for a formal interview,” the report added. Colangelo was given until April 21 to provide lawmakers with a schedule of his availability. The House Judiciary Committee has effectively conceded that the investigation may run into roadblocks.
“The Committee may therefore consider legislation to enhance reporting requirements concerning the use of federal forfeiture funds and/or to prohibit the use of federal forfeiture funds to investigate a current or former President or presidential candidate,” Jordan wrote in the letter to Colangelo.
In December, former Acting Associate Attorney General Colangelo was hired by DA Bragg’s office to “jump start” investigations into the former president, who had announced his intention to run in 2024 against sitting President Joe Biden.
“He will help guide the most sensitive and high-profile white-collar investigations,” said Bragg in a statement, adding Colangelo will “promote confidence in the legal system by making clear that the same rules apply to everyone – no matter how powerful.”
The House Judiciary Committee is now probing the Manhattan D.A.’s office, the White House, and the Department of Justice for evidence of coordination and election interference.
Jordan revealed on Fox News last week that Bragg admitted his office used federal funds for the Trump investigation.
On Thursday, lawmakers issued a subpoena for Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor under D.A. Bragg who resigned last year after making little progress in criminal investigations of Donald Trump.
As the House Republicans mobilized to probe the Manhattan D.A.’s office, members of Bragg’s staff deleted online profiles. The “Meet Our Team” page was also scrubbed from Bragg’s website.
Trump pled not guilty at his arraignment in court on Tuesday in the face of a 34-count felony indictment that carries a maximum 136-year prison sentence. The weak nature of the case has led a dozen liberal law professors and Trump antagonists to call the prosecution “a dead end,” The Federalist noted.
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From: WALTER784
May-27
Exclusive: Jim Jordan Demands Info from DOJ on IRS Whistleblower Removed from Hunter Biden Case
UNITED STATES - MAY 18: Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, conducts the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to "examine abuses seen at the Bureau and how the FBI has retaliated against whistleblowers," in Rayburn Building on Thursday, May 18, 2023. FBI whistleblowers testified. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll …Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
ASHLEY OLIVER
25 May 2023
House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) demanded documents from the Justice Department on Thursday related to allegations that the department retaliated against an IRS whistleblower investigating Hunter Biden.
Jordan told Attorney General Merrick Garland in a letter obtained by Breitbart News that he is seeking information about the removal of an “IRS Criminal Supervisory Special Agent and investigative team” from a “‘high-profile, controversial’ ongoing investigation.”
“The timing of the Department’s removal of the agent and investigative team raises serious concerns given that the investigation was the subject of the agent’s protected whistleblower disclosure,” Jordan wrote.
Read a copy of the letter below:
The letter comes in response to attorneys for the supervisory special agent, who later revealed his identity in a CBS interview as 14-year IRS veteran Gary Shapley, asking Congress to investigate Shapley’s removal from the case as potential unlawful whistleblower retaliation.
Shapley told CBS that he had been assigned to a “high-profile investigation” in January 2020, which Breitbart News confirmed from a source familiar is related to a years-long federal probe into Hunter Biden’s taxes.
Shapley is being represented by Empower Oversight, a firm launched by former Republican aides that works to protect whistleblowers. Empower Oversight alerted Congress on May 15 that Shapley and the rest of his investigative team had been removed from the case at the direction of the Justice Department, according to a letter obtained by Breitbart News.
Empower Oversight contended the move was “clearly retaliatory” and that it stood in contrast to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel recently vowing before Congress not to take such measures against whistleblowers.
Shapley detailed his whistleblower allegations, which he had initially made privately to Congress, in the CBS interview, saying that when he began investigating Hunter Biden, he “immediately saw it was way outside the norm.”
Shapley said he observed “multiple steps that were slow-walked at the direction of this Department of Justice” and that “deviations from normal process” seemed to “always benefit the subject” of the investigation.
It remains unclear why Shapley and his team were taken off the Hunter Biden case, and the Justice Department declined to comment on the matter.
Jordan wrote that his committee would “not tolerate the Department’s retaliatory conduct against this or any other whistleblower.”
He asked that Garland respond to him by June 8 with the requested documents and communications.
The letter comes the day before Shapley is set to testify behind closed doors with the House Ways and Means Committee, which is conducting a concurrent probe into the IRS’s handling of the whistleblower allegations and subsequent alleged retaliation.
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From: Showtalk
May-27
They are hitting them where it might actually hurt and gain some traction. If he was hired only to pursue one person, that is a violation of all kinds of laws,
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From: WALTER784
May-27
Current administration is in violation of multiple laws... including Constitutional ones.
And current Congress is investigating multiple wrong doings simultaneously too.
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From: WALTER784
Jun-1
But we still need to dig to the bottom:
Peter Schweizer: House’s Hunter Findings Are Just the Beginning
BREITBART NEWS
16 May 2023
The House panel investigating the Biden family’s business deals recently announced that it has already found over $10 million in payments from foreign sources going to more than 20 LLCs set up while Joe Biden was vice president. And the committee’s work is just beginning.
Of course, none of this is news to Peter Schweizer, who first reported this story in 2018. Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers discuss the new findings on the newest episode of The Drill Down. What more will the committee likely confirm with witness testimony and more financial records?
The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-TN), has yet to get access to records for Joe Biden’s private phone or bank accounts linked to the biggest Biden deal of them all — the $1.5 billion dollar investment deal between Hunter Biden’s business and an arm of the Chinese government, which he secured after traveling aboard Air Force Two with his father, then vice president, to China in December 2012.
The House Committee has not yet received documentation related to that business, Peter tells Eric. “They are not yet including the money from Rosemont Realty or from Bohai Harvest Rosemont (BHR), which included that $1.5 billion dollar investment deal,” Peter says. He expects that $10 million dollar figure to rise when they do.
The House Oversight Committee said its investigation so far shows activities of the Biden family and its associates “bear clear indicia of a scheme to peddle influence,” and that, “activities in coordination with Chinese nationals and their corporate entities appear to be an attempt to engage in financial deception.”
Even at this early stage of the committee’s investigation, Schweizer said that the payments from foreign sources to the family of the current President of the United States are unacceptable.
“Even if we haven’t seen a direct link to Joe yet, is this acceptable behavior?” Schweizer asked. “Do we really think it’s okay for our political families – family members of the Treasury Secretary, the President, the Vice President, or the Senate Majority Leader – to start taking in millions of dollars of cash from China?”
Peter Schweizer: House’s Hunter Findings Are Just the Beginning (breitbart.com)
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From: Showtalk
Jun-1
Sweitzer has been talking about this for a while. He tends to be ignore by most of the public, but he’s calm, rational and his arguments are sound.
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