The IRS Fix Is In; Thanks for all the Votes!

[C-Mag]

The IRS Scandal, Day 1921: Federal Judge Approves $3.5 Million Payout From IRS To >100 Tea Party Groups To Settle Targeting Claims

The IRS agreed to pay $3.5 million to groups that were wronged by the intrusive inspections, and insists it’s made changes so that political targeting can’t occur in the future.
A few issues are still being fought over in the courts — including whether former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner will be allowed to forever shield her deposition explaining her behavior from public view, and whether the IRS should pay attorney fees — but this week’s decision closes out five years of litigation over the targeting itself. ...
The $3.5 million closely approximates the fines the IRS would have had to pay in damages for each intrusive scrutiny of tea party groups, had the agency been found in violation of the law. The money will be split with half going to the lawyers who argued the case and the other half to more than 100 tea party groups, which will get a cut of about $17,000 each.

Judge Michael R. Barrett called the settlement “fair, reasonable and adequate.”

The settlement doesn’t actually include an admission of wrongdoing by the IRS

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[Okeefenokee]

Works out to about $283.33 per month for the five years of the case.

Doesn't matter either. No matter how much they fined them, it wouldn't be their money being paid out anyhow.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Works out to about $283.33 per month for the five years of the case.

Doesn't matter either. No matter how much they fined them, it wouldn't be their money being paid out anyhow.

Yep. It’s our money.

[Speaker to Animals]

Just fucking print more. Fuck it.

[Fife]

You can't make this shit up.

IRS analyst charged with leaking financial documents on Michael Cohen

An Internal Revenue Service employee has been charged with leaking confidential government reports that described financial transactions made by President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen, according to court documents unsealed Thursday.

John Fry, an investigative analyst with the IRS in San Francisco, was charged with the unauthorized disclosure of suspicious activity reports, or SARs. Such reports are meant to flag potentially unlawful financial conduct to government investigators but do not necessarily indicate wrongdoing.


According to the documents, unsealed in federal court in San Francisco, Fry is accused of sharing the reports' contents with Michael Avenatti, a lawyer who rose to national prominence representing adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in litigation arising from her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump more than a decade ago. Cohen pleaded guilty last year to arranging hush-money payments to Daniels and another woman who alleged affairs with Trump.

Fry's lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Court records show he appeared briefly in court Thursday and was released on a $50,000 bond. Court records do not show a plea was entered.

Avenatti, who made the information public by posting it on social media, did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. He said on Twitter that he did nothing wrong.