20 Armed IRS & ATF Agents Raid Gun Store & Take Customer’s Gun Purchase Records.

Twenty heavily armed federal agents pulled in behind Montana’s Highwood Creek Outfitters’ owner Tom Van Hoose as he arrived at his shop Wednesday morning, KRTV reported.

“We have a reputation of dotting all the i’s and crossing all the t’s because there’s so much legal fun to be had,” said Van Hoose. “It’s just not worth doing things that are going to get you in trouble.”

The IRS CID troops took ten hours to copy the information on his computers and download his point of sale software information. But what Van Hoose says really concerns him is the fact that in addition to his accounting and sales records, the agents confiscated 13 years of 4473 forms and copied his firearm acquisition and disposition book.

Anyone who’s ever completed a 4473 form knows there’s no revenue or financial data there. That form is a record of a firearm purchase transaction used to facilitate a NICS background check and potentially trace a gun’s ownership down the road if it’s used in a crime. Gun dealers are required to keep those forms for at least 20 years.

The question then is, why would the IRS want customer transaction information? Van Hoose says the 4473 forms were not included on the list of financial records specifically listed on the warrant the IRS agents served him during the raid. Yet they took them anyway.

According to a news release from U.S. Representative Matt Rosenadale (R-MT), the IRS confiscated all the 4473 forms from the store. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms website, generally, the forms must be completed at licensed business premises when a firearm is transferred.

As an aside we learn this info.

So here we go….. OMB sticking their finger in gun control. Thank the House GOP. The Office of Management and Budget has provided emergency authorization to ATF to immediately use the revised Form 4473. ATF will be publishing the Revised Form for Notice and Comment Review in the coming months.

Notice Regarding Recent Changes to the ATF Form 4473

Due to new statutory requirements set forth in both the NICS Denial Notification Act and the Bipartisan Safer Community Act (BSCA), and to reflect the implementation of ATF Final Rule 2021R-05F, ATF Form 4473 has been revised.  Because the new statutory requirements are designed to enhance public safety, and to ensure compliance with these provisions and Final Rule 2021R-05F, the Office of Management and Budget has provided emergency authorization to ATF to immediately use the revised Form 4473. ATF will be publishing the Revised Form for Notice and Comment Review in the coming months.

ATF encourages all federal firearms licensees (FFLs) to begin using the Revised Form immediately. The Revised Form is available on ATF’s website, and can be downloaded and printed for immediate use. Please note that the entire Form, including instructions, must be printed, and stored together.  Hard copies of the Revised Form will be available through the ATF Distribution Center beginning February 1, 2023. The ATF eForm 4473 application is also being revised and notification will be sent when it is ready for use.

IRS agents confiscated background check forms from the store that contained sensitive personal information about all customers who ever purchased a gun at the shop. The forms do not include financial information, Rosendale said, calling the act an “egregious breach of privacy” that “showed no regard for federal law.”

The danger of federal agents taking this information was not lost on AG Knudsen, who told Breitbart News, “I spoke with the shop owner who told me that 20 heavily armed IRS agents from multiple states in our region served a warrant before his business opened.

They took dozens of boxes full of 4473s — more than a decade’s worth. This is extremely concerning because it seemingly exceeds the search warrant which limited the scope of the search to financial records. These aren’t financial records, they’re records of lawful firearm purchases. What the hell does the IRS need with 4473s? We know the ATF in Washington, DC is trying to scoop up as many of these purchase records as possible, and that’s what it looks like they’re trying to do here.”

“There is no circumstance in which 4473s would be necessary in an investigation spearheaded by the IRS,” Rosendale said in a letter addressed to ATF Director Steven Dettelbach and IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel.

 

Read more at Breitbart.

and what this is all about at Truth about Guns

Is this going to be the new pattern of abuse? Is the IRS going to harass all the gun purchasers made from this Montana store as they did to the Tea Party?

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Biden: ‘Surprised GOP Wants To Stop Dems 87,000 New IRS Agents’

Many believe that the new agents will be shaking down the Lower and Middle Class. Oh yes, but the agenda is far more than that and I have an idea.

Who believes that there are 87,000 accountants out there available to fill the positions that will be required with the “Inflation Reduction Act”  Considering that the IRS cannot fill their positions for IRS agents now just who will be these new candidates? Setting aside a few thousand for IT it sure is a boatload of agents.

The IRS audited Americans earning $25,000 a year at FIVE TIMES the rate of other groups last year.

They claim they need so many accountants in order to go after the very rich. The fact is that it takes CPA’s to audit the rich due to the complicated and confusing tax code. How many CPA’s after all their education want to spend their lives working for the IRS?. Not many according to my CPA when I asked him this week.

Those same IRS agents that will use deadly force?

WE’RE HIRING SPECIAL AGENTS NOW!

Key Requirements

• Be a U.S. citizen
• Be 21 years of age by the time that you complete the training academy and no older than 37 years of age at time of appointment.
• Qualify based on education, specialized experience, or a combination of the two.
• Possess a valid driver’s license.
• Pass a background and criminal history record check.
• Pass a pre-employment medical exam.
• Pass a pre-employment drug test.
• Pass a pre-employment tax examination.
• Be legally allowed to carry a firearm.

Major Duties

• Adhere to the highest standards of conduct, especially in maintaining honesty and integrity.
• Work a minimum of 50 hours per week, which may include irregular hours, and be on-call 24/7, including holidays and weekends.
• Maintain a level of fitness necessary to effectively respond to life-threatening situations on the job.
• Carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary.
• Be willing and able to participate in arrests, execution of search warrants, and other dangerous assignments.

More at “IRS”

The agenda included in the Inflation Reduction Act of the IRS-

“…to provide digital asset monitoring….”

In the original BBB bill, this section took up a page. Now, it’s ten pages long.  It starts on page 1926 of the current version of H.R. 5376 and on page 39 of the Senate’s draft Inflation Reduction Act; versions are slightly different but the total is the same. In the $45 billion enforcement section, we’ve got “…to provide digital asset monitoring….”

If that doesn’t make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up I don’t know what will. The IRS should be concerned only with assets it suspects are being funded through tax fraud and it doesn’t take $45 billion to do that. But to establish the ability to implement Senator Warren’s unconstitutional “wealth tax,” well, it might just be enough.

Another idea of what they could be doing:

Congress in its wisdom recognizes that there are no 87,000 accountants. How do I know?

Buried in the wording is a paragraph giving the Secretary of the Treasury the ability to hire directly into the competitive service without regard for current laws that mandate publicly announcing available competitive service openings. The Secretary can ignore all federal laws that give hiring preference to veterans, the disabled, former employees (that would include those fired for not taking the co-vax), military spouses, Peace Corps volunteers, etc. That’s one way to make sure only those who meet a political smell test get to participate in this new IRS enforcement program.

So the new so-called agents will be hand-picked. No public announcing of the position. Am I the only one that thinks it odd? How about the educational backgrounds? If the IRS is going to unleash thousands of IRS agents don’t we need to believe that they are qualified ?  Or are they merely to harass the “chosen” by the administration? Just asking.

If we accept a premise that we will have tens of thousands of individuals that really aren’t qualified to examine tax returns one has to ask just what will they be doing?

If anyone thinks that the Biden regime would like to return to the halcyon days of Obama let’s look at an idea of what else they could do.

Now an IRS agent in every Church? Agrees to monitor sermons

August 1, 2014 — bunkerville

On Friday, the IRS settled a lawsuit filed in 2012 by the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF). The Wisconsin group brought the lawsuit because it said the IRS was ignoring complaints about churches violating their tax-exempt statuses. Specifically, FFRF said many churches promote political issues, legislation, and/or candidates from the pulpit in violation of the 1954 Johnson Amendment, which requires that non-profits not endorse candidates. (One of those wink-wink set up settlements probably)

According to FFRF, the IRS has not followed a 2009 ruling requiring it to hire someone to keep an eye on church politicking. The IRS says it hasn’t ignored the ruling, but merely failed to follow it.

Today, more emails were released from Congressional investigations into the IRS scandal. You know, the one where our Dear Leader used federal agencies to target the political opposition with repression and abuse.  The Wall Street Journal reports today, in an article called “The IRS’s Foreign Policy“, that now evidence has emerged that it wasn’t just American conservative groups our president was criminally targeting for special attention.  It was targeting groups supporting the Jewish State of Israel.

An IRS email unearthed in Congressional discovery asks these questions to a Jewish group applying for tax-exempt status: (1) “Does your organization support the existence of the land of Israel?” and (2) “Describe your organization’s religious belief system toward the land of Israel.”  So tell me how that issue is worthy of IRS attention?  The obvious answer is that it is not.  It’s only relevant to a presidential administration taking its cues from an anti-semitic leader.

Then there could be this responsibility.

IRS can seize bank accounts on suspicion, no crime required

Bunk: October 26, 2014

At least they knocked which is saying something.

For almost 40 years, Carole Hinders has dished out Mexican specialties at her modest cash-only restaurant. For just as long, she deposited the earnings at a small bank branch a block away — until last year, when two tax agents knocked on her door and informed her that they had seized her checking account, almost $33,000.

Then there is this keeping in mind that Biden is not at the wheel:

“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set,” Obama said.  “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

All Democrats voted for this bill, more than doubles the size of the IRS. 

IRS is to get 5000 more guns; 5 million rounds of ammo; if they hire 87k they will have 167k employees; impressive brown shirt army.  The IRS has 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition in its weapons inventory

Here is the something that is a possibility for those tens of thousands. Mark Levin 2014.

Sources are from earlier Bunk’s posts including:

It’s Not Just the 87,000 New IRS Agents, It’s who They Will Be – What They Will Do!

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CNBC Cuts Off Guest Telling Too Much Truth

For those who dabble in stocks and count on CNBC for financial information, you may want to give it a second thought. The big boys will only let you know so much and here is a prime example. The mask slipped for a moment.

“Short Selling” is the secret sauce for making money in a losing market. Hint on what went wrong.

Short selling involves borrowing a security whose price you think is going to fall from your brokerage and selling it on the open market. Your plan is to then buy the same stock back later, hopefully for a lower price than you initially sold it for, and pocket the difference after repaying the initial loan.

Since you only have to put up half the value of the stock one can make twice the money. The trick is to  ride it on the way down and buy it before the price of the stock rises to some point. “Short Covering” is closing out one’s position in the stock.

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Naked shorting is the illegal practice of short selling shares that have not been affirmatively determined to exist. Ordinarily, traders must borrow a stock or determine that it can be borrowed before they sell it short. So naked shorting refers to short pressure on a stock that may be larger than the tradable shares in the market.

Despite being made illegal after the 2008–09 financial crisis, naked shorting continues to happen because of loopholes in rules and discrepancies between paper and electronic trading systems. From

Naked Shorting – Investopedia

Kristin Bitterly speaking too much truth, promptly cut off by CNBC producers. pic.twitter.com/G2sNzVaM4o

— Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) August 30, 2022

I mean yeah, now after they know what she was about to say or had a chance to tell her what not to say, they can feel comfortable bringing her back on. But we saw the fear coming out when they didn’t know what she will talk about.

The whole recent rally was short covering and continued by big wall street money/hedge funds who have the money to move the market to suck in retail (us little people)  before they reopened their short positions and sell “Out of the Money Calls” before they short everything back down to retest recent lows.

It is fraud, “US equities positions reached their highest net short levels in over 10 years” aka cheating via naked shorting has been the worst it’s been in over a decade. What frauds, thank you for exposing yourselves.

"You started by saying I still believe it's a bear market that we're in, and that was a rally, and you started ticking off some reasons for it, and the first one I think you cited was short covering… expound please and go as long as you want!" @JoeSquawk asks Kristen Bitterly. pic.twitter.com/K8HNLQ9dol

— Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) August 30, 2022

Since I wandered into the money angle for today’s post, I thought I might add this piece of joy in case you missed it.

We handed the IRS $80 billion so they could start targeting $600 ebay transactions.

What an expense for ebay.  

Ebay: What you need to know

 

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87,000 New IRS Agents – Obama’s Civilian Security Force?

Who believes that there are 87,000 accountants out there available to fill the positions that will be available with the “Inflation Reduction Act” about to be passed? Considering that the IRS cannot fill their positions for IRS agents now just who will be these new candidates? Setting aside a few thousand for IT it sure is a boatload of agents.

As I posted yesterday-

IRS agents are accountants. Now that the San Diego school district is giving straight A’s to every child who lives in the district, whether or not they show up at school, think any of them will be able to make it through 30 semester hours of increasingly complex accounting courses?

Forty percent of all accounting graduates opt to become CPAs, which takes them out of the running for entry-level agent positions. CPAs need a full year’s worth of credits on top of their degree, a couple of years in a public accounting sweatshop, passing all the segments of the CPA exam, and annual continuing education credits. Starting wages for agents are significantly lower than for private industry accountants.

How many of these new 30 credit accounting wonders will be even qualified to audit anyone with a tax return more than a 1040 form?

Congress in its wisdom recognizes that there are no 87,000 accountants. How do I know?

Buried in the wording is a paragraph giving the Secretary of the Treasury the ability to hire directly into the competitive service without regard for current laws that mandate publicly announcing available competitive service openings. The Secretary can ignore all federal laws that give hiring preference to veterans, the disabled, former employees (that would include those fired for not taking the co-vax), military spouses, Peace Corps volunteers, etc. That’s one way to make sure only those who meet a political smell test get to participate in this new IRS enforcement program.

So the new so-called agents will be hand-picked. No public announcing of the position. Am I the only one that thinks it odd? How about the educational backgrounds? If the IRS is going to unleash thousands of IRS agents don’t we need to believe that they are qualified ?  Or are they merely to harass the “chosen” by the administration? Just asking.

If we accept a premise that we will have tens of thousands of individuals that really aren’t qualified to examine tax returns one has to ask just what will they be doing?

If anyone thinks that the Biden regime would like to return to the halcyon days of Obama let’s look at an idea of what they could do.

How about this?

Now an IRS agent in every Church? Agrees to monitor sermons

August 1, 2014 — bunkerville

On Friday, the IRS settled a lawsuit filed in 2012 by the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF). The Wisconsin group brought the lawsuit because it said the IRS was ignoring complaints about churches violating their tax-exempt statuses. Specifically, FFRF said many churches promote political issues, legislation, and/or candidates from the pulpit in violation of the 1954 Johnson Amendment, which requires that non-profits not endorse candidates. (One of those wink-wink set up settlements probably)

According to FFRF, the IRS has not followed a 2009 ruling requiring it to hire someone to keep an eye on church politicking. The IRS says it hasn’t ignored the ruling, but merely failed to follow it.

Today, more emails were released from Congressional investigations into the IRS scandal. You know, the one where our Dear Leader used federal agencies to target the political opposition with repression and abuse.  The Wall Street Journal reports today, in an article called “The IRS’s Foreign Policy“, that now evidence has emerged that it wasn’t just American conservative groups our president was criminally targeting for special attention.  It was targeting groups supporting the Jewish State of Israel.

An IRS email unearthed in Congressional discovery asks these questions to a Jewish group applying for tax-exempt status: (1) “Does your organization support the existence of the land of Israel?” and (2) “Describe your organization’s religious belief system toward the land of Israel.”  So tell me how that issue is worthy of IRS attention?  The obvious answer is that it is not.  It’s only relevant to a presidential administration taking its cues from an anti-semitic leader.

Then there is this:

“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set,” Obama said.  “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

All Democrats voted for this bill, more than doubles the size of the IRS. It will employ more than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, & Border Patrol combined.

IRS is to get 5000 more guns; 5 million rounds of ammo; if they hire 87k they will have 167k employees; impressive brown shirt army.  The IRS has 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition in its weapons inventory

Here is something else that is a possibility for these tens of thousands. Mark Levin 2014.

Sources from yesterday’s post:

It’s Not Just the 87,000 New IRS Agents, It’s who They Will Be – What They Will Do!

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It’s Not Just the 87,000 New IRS Agents, It’s who They Will Be – What They Will Do!

Not just the numbers and who they will be but what they will do. “…to provide digital asset monitoring….”

We should recall what Obama did and had in mind for the IRS before we jump to the easy explanation. “The real reason they target low income is because they can’t afford attorneys and accountants” often quoted.

The reason is not the low hanging fruit. 

Biden’s Build Back Better Framework, issued in October 2021, noted that wage earners had a 99% tax compliance rate and that the miscreant 1% evades about $160 billion per year in taxes. Sounds like a lot, but it’s not too bad actually: that’s just 4% of the $3.863 trillion taken in. Given that perfection will always elude us, at what point does this become statistically insignificant and unjustifiably wasteful? There are about 12,000 “agents” in the IRS, and about 145 million taxpayers. Do we really need 87,000 more agents to address issues with maybe a million and a half taxpayers? Absolutely not!

From RNC Research

Let’s put our thinking caps on. Hmmm.

Biden wants to give $80 billion to the IRS for additional audits and an army of 87,000 new IRS agents in his Bidenflation Scam bill.

The IRS audited Americans earning $25,000 a year at FIVE TIMES the rate of other groups last year. https://t.co/m5AoZxjSzU

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 6, 2022

So, again, what’s this money for? In the original BBB bill, this section took up a page. Now, it’s ten pages long.  It starts on page 1926 of the current version of H.R. 5376 and on page 39 of the Senate’s draft Inflation Reduction Act; versions are slightly different but the total is the same. In the $45 billion enforcement section, we’ve got “…to provide digital asset monitoring….”

If that doesn’t make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up I don’t know what will. The IRS should be concerned only with assets it suspects are being funded through tax fraud and it doesn’t take $45 billion to do that. But to establish the ability to implement Senator Warren’s unconstitutional “wealth tax,” well, it might just be enough.

And just where are we going to get all of these accountants? With electronic filing the need for clerical staffing has drastically been reduced. At present, the IRS cannot fill its annual hiring goals. Where are these 87,000 coming from and who will they be?

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IRS agents are accountants. Now that the San Diego school district is giving straight As to every child who lives in the district, whether or not they show up at school, think any of them will be able to make it through 30 semester hours of increasingly complex accounting courses?

Forty percent of all accounting graduates opt to become CPAs, which takes them out of the running for entry-level agent positions. CPAs need a full year’s worth of credits on top of their degree, a couple of years in a public accounting sweatshop, passing all the segments of the CPA exam, and annual continuing education credits. Starting wages for agents are significantly lower than for private industry accountants.

Now we come to the great reveal.

Buried in the wording is a paragraph giving the Secretary of the Treasury the ability to hire directly into the competitive service without regard for current laws that mandate publicly announcing available competitive service openings. The Secretary can ignore all federal laws that give hiring preference to veterans, the disabled, former employees (that would include those fired for not taking the co-vax), military spouses, Peace Corps volunteers, etc. That’s one way to make sure only those who meet a political smell test get to participate in this new IRS enforcement program.

I suggest hiring those suitable for their prize – …to provide digital asset monitoring….” when did this become a function of the IRS?

The goal of Pelosi, Schumer, Warren, Sanders, and the rest of the ultra-pro-regressive bunch.

For more read from The American Thinker

This is exactly filling out what Obama had in mind. Let’s go through some of the good old times of Obama. I pulled out a portion of a couple of old posts:

 

Recall this old war horse Lois Lerner?

Lois Lerner fights release of her deposition, says “exceedingly low public interest”

December 12, 2017 — bunkerville

Former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner told a federal court last week that there’s “no legitimate” reason why the public should see her testimony about her role in tea party targeting, pleading with a judge to keep her deposition permanently sealed.

They said there’s “exceedingly low” public interest in having their depositions released, and they said tea party groups are pushing for disclosure out of “spite.”

The IRS has reached settlements with hundreds of tea party groups and the government admitted it bungled its handling of their nonprofit status applications during the Obama administration. The government, in one of the settlements, even singled out Ms. Lerner for specific criticism, saying she failed to stop the targeting and even hid it from her supervisors.

But Ms. Lerner’s own defense of her actions, as well as Ms. Paz’s testimony, remain secret, with the transcripts of their depositions sealed and all references to the information from those depositions redacted from other documents.

Obama threatens veto on bill to delay IRS from muzzling his political opponents

February 26, 2014 — bunkerville

Treasury’s proposed rules would significantly alter 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organization activities and restrict First Amendment rights. Other tax-exempt organizations, including labor unions, would not be subject to the same rules. A letter recently signed by more than 50 conservative and free market groups expressed similar concerns and called on Congress to block the proposed regulations. Camp, who has led the House Ways and Means Committee investigation into the IRS’s abuse of conservative groups, released the following statement:

“Despite the administration’s insistence that ‘there’s nothing to see here,’ the committee has found evidence demonstrating that right-leaning groups were targeted to an extent far beyond what was reported by the Inspector General. Our investigation is still ongoing and the committee has not received all the requested documents. It is premature to publish new rules before getting all of the facts. The Administration’s proposed rules openly target groups that are exercising their First Amendment rights. We cannot allow these draft regulations to go into effect. Congress must make sure every American’s right to participate and engage in civic debate is protected, and this legislation will provide some much-needed assurance that IRS targeting and surveillance will not continue.

“Additionally, I am disappointed by reports that the Department of Justice had decided – without conducting a serious investigation – that it will not to pursue criminal charges in the IRS’s intentional targeting of conservative groups. I have long said that we will follow the facts of this case wherever the facts lead us – and this case 

IRS to beef up whistleblower program-turn your family, boss in!

January 18, 2011 — bunkerville 

Unhappy with a family member? Had a bad day at the office? Now you can make them spin in the wind. Now the lawyers go into a feeding frenzy. Here you go:

The Internal Revenue Service, reversing an earlier position, proposed rules making it more likely informants will collect a reward when they blow the whistle on tax-dodging employers, neighbors or family members.

The agency proposed regulations today that make it easier for whistleblowers whose information results in denial of refunds or a reduction in deductible losses to get rewards of as much as 30% of the amount involved. Earlier guidance tied reward payments to a portion of additional taxes paid as a result an informant’s tip.

IRS is buying shotguns

February 3, 2010 — bunkerville | Edit

Acquiring Shotguns

 

 

Ain’t she a real Beauty?

This ought to tell us more than we want to know! Good taste in Shotguns–a Remington parkerized shotgun ought to do the trick.

 

Utilizing Speedfeed® stock variations and Speedfeed® fore-ends, the shotguns are virtually indestructible and are the best choice when weather extremes are a factor. The addition of the R3 recoil pad to all Model 870 Police shotguns reduces the felt recoil of heavy loads by 30%.

 

Solicitation Number: TIRWR-10-Q-00023 

Agency: Department of the Treasury
Office: Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Location: Field Operations Branch Western (OS:A:P:B:W)

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division. The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight and XS4 Contour Bead front sight, Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock, and Speedfeed ribbed black forend, are designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory, certified armorer and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts. Swell!

Submit quotes including 11% Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax (FAET) and shipping to Washington DC.

 

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Biden Corruption : Tony Bobulinski, Hunter’s Business partner spilled it all

 

Now that the New York Times has given its blessing as to the truth of the “Laptop from Hell” of Hunter Biden, it’s time to open up this can of worms full bore. Especially now that Ukraine is in our living room every single day and night. The Biden truth was all out there before the election. Actually before the laptop discovery. For those who are playing “catch up” here is last night’s Tucker Carlson. Then we will get to his business partner Tony Bobulinski. 

Columnist Miranda Devine says it’s ‘delicious’ to watch the media ‘squirm’ over reality on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’

 

 

The cast of characters in this bad movie now takes on a new illumination when we see the individuals up close and personal. Porshenko for one. He is giving interviews, beating the drum for support from the world. Yet just a few years ago he was given a “big ask” to fire the prosecutor who was chasing down Biden and company and the corruption. What better way to celebrate the Biden corruption news then to return to the man who was a business partner with Hunter Biden.

Tony Bobulinski. October 2020, just before the election. Bobulinski was giving up the goods just as the New York Post was doing. He was lucky not to give up more than that and he lived to tell about it. So let’s get started.

The New York Post initially published emails in October, which were later obtained by Fox News, related to Hunter Biden’s business dealings with CEFE and a Ukrainian energy firm that were purportedly discovered on a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden.

Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter Biden, claimed in an interview Tuesday that the Biden family shrugged off concerns that Joe Biden’s alleged ties to his son’s business deals could put a future presidential campaign at risk.

Bobulinski, in an interview with Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” said he raised concerns in 2017 to the former vice president’s brother Jim Biden, about Joe Biden’s alleged ties to a possible joint venture with a Chinese energy firm.

Bobulinski, a retired lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, was the former CEO of SinoHawk Holdings, which he said was the partnership between the CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming and the two Biden family members.

“I remember saying, ‘How are you guys getting away with this?’ ‘Aren’t you concerned?’” he told Carlson.

He claims that Jim Biden chuckled.

“‘Plausible Deniability,’ he said it directly to me in a cabana at the Peninsula Hotel,” he said.

The Senators were on the case as well.

Senator Johnson’s report lays it out with the Biden corruption. Not long and with lots of good exhibits. A one pager with links to the full report. Go for it. The media remained silent.

Johnson, Grassley Release Report on Conflicts-of-Interest Investigation

Note the date: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 – before the election.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals, including the wife of the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

These were just some of the findings from their investigation into potential conflicts of interest arising from Hunter Biden accepting a position on the board of, and taking millions of dollars from, Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company with a long-standing reputation for corruption, while his father, Joe Biden, was vice president and the public face of the Obama administration’s handling of Ukraine policy. 

A copy of the full report is available here.

Copies of the investigation’s interview transcripts and exhibits are available here.

Bombshell Leaked Phone conversations – Biden, Kerry.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a confession.

 

Porshenko admitted that he could find nothing to charge the prosecutor with but told him to resign anyway because Biden told him to.

 

 

The first minute or so is the well known Biden quip where he states that he told Ukraine to fire the Prosecutor if they wanted to get the money. Then it gets to the good stuff. The leaked phone calls

 

Note about half way through is an ad to subscribe. Wait a few seconds and the report continues.

 

 

Tony Bobulinski joins Tucker Carlson to discuss his alleged dealings with Hunter and Joe Biden. Posted October 2020.

 

 

Fox news and Youtube have taken down the second portion of the interview.

One can only wonder how this corruption effects the decisions the administration regarding Ukraine. The bizarre activity of Russia negotiating on the United States behalf regarding Iran’s nuclear deal. The strange agreement details that are hard to even imagine being considered. Then there is China. It really is hard to believe that Biden is not being blackmailed.

Then one wonders why this story comes out in the New York Times yesterday. Why now did they have the epiphany to disclose their new found opinion. Has the coup begun to replace Biden? That this will lead to an impeachment? That “they” will force him to resign? The IRS is still on Hunter’s tale. Questions are being raised as to who gave him the million bucks to pay off his IRS debt. Was that the set up? I bet so… follow the money…. All good questions.

“Plausible deniability”

Joe Biden falsely says his son Hunter’s laptop is a smear from Russia

“My son’s an honorable man… Hunter Biden broke no laws.” The FBI seized Hunter’s laptop in 2019 and is continuing to investigate Hunter and his associates for money laundering, per news reports.

This is damning. pic.twitter.com/Dp3qiuyK60

— wolfpack (@AgramSeth) March 17, 2022

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BIden exploits loophole in IRS code to dodge $500K in taxes

 

The Biden’s have been strangely silent on Trump’s tax returns. Let us hope Trump will use this as a response to what will surely arise tonight in the debate. After all is there any doubt this was a setup for this item to hit the news a couple of days prior to the debate?

I really have come to hate politics and the absurdity of it. No focus or reporting on that which effects our lives and will in the future depending who wins the next election.Maybe lunch bucket Joe could have Hunter shed some light on his tax filings. Bet no one will be interested in leaking that one. So let’s have a go at this one:

 

Yes you do Joe

Since the left is now in histrionics over President Trump’s perfectly legal use of the US tax code to avoid paying taxes for 10 out of the last 15 years, perhaps they’ll give as much attention to Joe Biden – who used another perfectly legal tax ‘loophole’ to avoid approximately $500,000 in payroll taxes on $15 million in income.

“The Bidens have used their home state’s financial privacy laws to shield his income from public view, by setting up two tax- and transparency-avoidance vehicles known as S corporations,” wrote Grimm. “He and his wife Jill Biden called them CelticCapri Corp. and Giacoppa Corp., respectively, and, according to the Wall Street Journal, have reported more than $13 million in profits the previous two years that weren’t subject to specific disclosure or self-employment taxes.

As CNBC has described, money Biden made from book deals and speeches flowed into the S corporations and was then remitted to Biden and his wife as ‘distributions’ rather than salary. When money is funneled through an S corporation, the recipient doesn’t owe Social Security or Medicare taxes on it, nor can the source of revenue be traced. (In addition to the distributions, the Bidens drew relatively small salaries from the S Corporations: under half a million dollars, for which they owed self-employment taxes.)”

More at Zero Hedge

Just for the record:

So. I finally read the NYT Trump tax story because I wanted to see what line was being reported for taxes owed and I came across this about the $750 in 2016 and 2017. Per the NYT own story, Trump actually paid to the US Treasury $1 million in 2016 and $4.2 million in 2017. pic.twitter.com/ltnlMG0mKW

— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) September 28, 2020

Other than that, all is well in the swamp.

Debtors prisons, Family dog seized and sold on Ebay for unpaid taxes

 

Welcome to Charles Dickens world.

For a Saturday Flashback how about we take a look at the return of the debtor’s prison. First though the story wouldn’t be complete without looking at Germany. At least we are not losing our pooches to the tax man. Maybe our Rolls, but not our pets.

A family in Germany has been left brokenhearted after their pedigree pug, Edda, was seized by their town over unpaid debts and sold to a new owner in a controversial eBay transaction.

A wife and mother of three owed her town of Ahlen money, including some in unpaid pet taxes, and the city decided to seize her most valuable asset: Edda the dog.

 

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The town then sold Edda to a new owner from a private account on eBay for just €750 ($853.53). Edda’s new owner, a police officer named Michaela Jordan, said she expected to pay twice that amount for the pedigree pup, BBC reports.

The situation became even more confusing when it was revealed that Jordan purchased the dog in December after speaking to a member of the Ahlen administration, because she was suspicious of the low price. After being assured that Edda was in good health, she went through with the purchase.

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In another confusing element of the story, local media outlets originally reported that the town of Ahlen first considered seizing the wheelchair belonging to the disabled husband of Edda’s original owner, as it was first thought to be the most valuable asset the family owned.

More at Fox News

Now an update on how we are doing with non-payment of taxes for a flashback Saturday.

Debtor Prisons returns to the United States

December 19, 2011 Bunkerville

More than a third of all states now allow borrowers who don’t pay their bills to be jailed, even when debtor’s prisons have been explicitly banned by state constitutions. A report by the American Civil Liberties Union found that people were imprisoned even when the cost of doing so exceeded the amount of debt they owed.

Judges have signed off on more than 5,000 such warrants since the start of 2010 in nine counties with a total population of 13.6 million people, according to a tally by The Wall Street Journal of filings in those counties. Nationwide figures aren’t known because many courts don’t keep track of warrants by alleged offense. In interviews, 20 judges across the nation said the number of borrowers threatened with arrest in their courtrooms has surged since the financial crisis began.

Federal imprisonment for unpaid debt has been illegal in the U.S. since 1833. It’s a practice people associate more with the age of Dickens than modern-day America. But as more Americans struggle to pay their bills in the wake of the recession, collection agencies are using harsher methods to get their money, ushering in the return of debtor’s prisons.

NPR reports that it’s becoming increasingly common for people to serve jail time as a result of their debt. Because of “sloppy, incomplete or even false documentation,” many borrowers facing jail time don’t even know they’re being sued by creditors.

MORE HERE

 

IRS, DOJ Subpoenas go after Jared Kushner – price of not draining the swamp

 

“They” will get the Trump family one way or another. They will turn the Trump lives into a living hell. That is the price Trump will pay for stepping into the swamp. The price of not draining the IRS and DOJ Swamp first thing,

 

The financial noose around Jared Kushner is once again tightening.

One month after the NYT reported that the records of Trump’s son-in-law at Deutsche Bank were subpoenaed, today Bloomberg reports that now the IRS is getting involved, and now US tax authorities have requested documents from lenders and investors in real estate projects managed by Kushner’s family.

The latest instance of following Kushner’s money involves gathering information from people who lent money and assembled investors for some Kushner Cos. real estate projects in New York and New Jersey, Bloomberg’s source said, with some deals dating as far back as 2010.

 The Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department issued the subpoenas within the past year, according to the person.

This particular tax inquiry appears unrelated to other investigations that have since burst into public view, and reportedly began before Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed in May to investigate Russian election meddling. In a separate action around that time, U.S. prosecutors in Brooklyn sought information from Kushner Cos. about its use of a foreign visa program.

In the tax investigation, it’s unclear whether authorities are looking at Kushner business associates or the company itself.

More at  Zero Hedge

Lois Lerner fights release of her deposition, says “exceedingly low public interest”

 

Who could forget?

Who knew that this old horse was still kicking around? So we learn that Lois Lerner of IRS fame, has her deposition up for grabs in federal court. Yes, I for one want to see her deposition. I might also add as well, why hasn’t Sessions taken another look-see and tried to figure out if they could nail her? Let’s get her depo out in the fresh air and sunshine. I would love to know who is fronting her legal bill:

Former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner told a federal court last week that there’s “no legitimate” reason why the public should see her testimony about her role in tea party targeting, pleading with a judge to keep her deposition permanently sealed. Ms. Lerner and her former chief lieutenant, Holly Paz, have said they faced death threats in the past, and say they fear any more attention to their behavior would spur a new round of harassment. They said there’s “exceedingly low” public interest in having their depositions released, and they said tea party groups are pushing for disclosure out of “spite.”

“The public disclosure of this personal and sensitive information and details of the harassment would further no legitimate end while undermining substantial privacy and physical safety interests,” the women said in briefs filed by their lawyers.

The IRS has reached settlements with hundreds of tea party groups and the government admitted it bungled its handling of their nonprofit status applications during the Obama administration. The government, in one of the settlements, even singled out Ms. Lerner for specific criticism, saying she failed to stop the targeting and even hid it from her supervisors.

But Ms. Lerner’s own defense of her actions, as well as Ms. Paz’s testimony, remain secret, with the transcripts of their depositions sealed and all references to the information from those depositions redacted from other documents.

Ms. Lerner and Ms. Paz also have not revealed much about the threats they said they faced, other than to cite “graphic, profane and disturbing language.”

The one specific instance of a threat they have cited in public documents was a June 2013 speech by Mark Meckler, a tea party leader who had helped drive the class action lawsuit against the IRS.

In that speech — just weeks after Ms. Lerner revealed the IRS’s illegal behavior — Mr. Meckler said tea party advocates could “have a lot of fun abusing these government employees.”

Ms. Lerner’s lawyer didn’t respond to requests from The Washington Times for more details on the threats.

Mr. Meckler told The Times that if Ms. Lerner manages to keep her deposition sealed it would “set an outrageous legal precedent, allowing the testimony of egregious acts by public servants to be permanently hidden.”

“The irony of this argument is astounding. The government has admitted that these people unconstitutionally targeted people based on their political beliefs. Now the individuals most responsible for the targeting wish to finish off their secret scheme to illegally target their fellow citizens, in secrecy,” he said.

He said when Ms. Lerner accuses him of fomenting threats, it’s a continuation of the targeting she oversaw while at the IRS, and said the Obama administration repeatedly tried to force Mr. Meckler to give up the legal challenge.

“It is time to blow this scandal wide open, and the unsealing of the Lois Lerner and Holly Paz depositions would be a good first step,” he said.

Some of the two women’s information is public, including emails sent and received during the targeting.

But what that information shows has been heatedly debated.

The Justice Department under President Barack Obama cleared Ms. Lerner of any wrongdoing and even praised her for stopping the targeting when she learned of it. Under President Trump, the same department agreed to settlements admitting illegal behavior by the IRS, and blaming Ms. Lerner in particular. More at the Washington Times