Lost emails, destroyed hard drives, foot dragging, stonewalling, and a smirking, sneering IRS commissioner doing his best to obscure the truth -- this has largely been the response by the Internal Revenue Service to investigations by Congress and FOIA requests from conservative groups trying to disSource: Is the IRS Scandal About to Break Wide Open?...
Before taking office in January, President Trump's incoming administration quietly threatened to remove some of the 72 nonpartisan, independent government watchdogs tasked with vetting out waste, fraud and abuse in federal agencies.Source: Months into office, Trump has yet to appoint key agency watchdogs...
A former labor lobbyist who serves on California’s political watchdog agency met privately, talked on the phone and exchanged text messages with a lawyer working for Senate Democrats while advocating for the agency to flip a longstanding legal interpretation of campaign finance law in favor of SenSource: Ethics commissioner had private meetings with Democrats over recall election rules...
Ivanka Trump or her trust received at least $12.6 million since early 2016 from her various business ventures and has an arrangement to guarantee her at least $1.5 million a year even as she serves in a top White House position, according to her first ethics disclosure made public late Friday.Source: Ivanka Trump received at least $12.6 million since 2016,...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The laws that prohibit foreign nationals from spending money to influence U.S. elections do not prevent them from lawfully buying some kinds of political ads on Facebook and other online networks, campaign finance lawyers said.Source: Online ads offer legal option for U.S. election meddling...
Donald Trump Jr. has come back swinging after news broke on Sunday that he, along with President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and the president’s then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. On Monday Trump Jr.Source: Trump Jr. may have violated campaign laws, say legal experts...
GOP and Democratic campaign operatives also refute idea that such a meeting was normal practice during an election. Donald Trump Jr.Source: Donald Trump Jr. in legal danger for Russia meeting about Clinton dirt...
To read the DOJ complaint filed yesterday, click here. To read the FEC complaint filed yesterday, click here.Source: Common Cause Files FEC and DOJ Complaints Against Donald Trump Jr....
Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer in June 2016 with the express purpose of getting information the Russian government had supposedly acquired on Hillary Clinton, according to a New York Times report published on Monday night. Trump Jr.Source: Legal experts say Donald Trump Jr has just confessed to a federal crime...
The Trump campaign in 2016 was signaling to Russia that it would be happy to have the Putin regime’s help. President Trump, as a candidate, famously called for Russia’s assistance. Later, when pressed, he repeatedly refused to clearly acknowledge its interference or condemn it.Source: Open Door to Moscow? New Facts in the Potential Criminal Case of Trump Campaign Coordination with...
