Sessions Ends DOJ Funding of Left-Wing Causes

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Good Riddance to the Obama DOJ’s Scandalous Settlement ‘Slush Fund’ Policy

The Justice Department announced Wednesday it will no longer allow prosecutors to strike settlement agreements with big companies directing them to make payouts to outside groups, ending an Obama-era practice that Republicans decried as a “slush fund” that padded the accounts of liberal interest groups.

In a memo sent to 94 U.S. attorneys’ offices early Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he would end the practice that allowed companies to meet settlement burdens by giving money to groups that were neither victims nor parties to the case.

That such a policy was ever in place is extraordinary. To recap: Under Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, the Justice Department regularly designed legal settlements in which well-heeled defendants were encouraged (read: forced) to donate money to third parties with no legal connection to the case being adjudicated.

So, for example, the DOJ used mortgage-lending settlements with JP Morgan, Citi, and Bank of America to funnel millions of dollars to community redevelopment organizations, housing groups, and non-profit legal-aid organizations. Naturally, the beneficiaries were selected by the DOJ.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/448376/trump-justice-department-settlement-slush-fund

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Obama's whole corrupt regime being exposed.

Where's the headlines?

 

[SteelChip]

I’m not surprised at all. Not at all. The Justice Department, under Attorney General Eric Holder, that Barack Obama appointed, had set up a slush fund that funded numerous far left political groups. When banks were fined, probably under the odious Dodd-Frank banking regulations law, they were allowed to pay the money to non-victim groups instead of to banking customers who were allegedly the victims, or to the taxpayers. So far left wing groups like the National Council of La Raza, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and the National Urban League received this money.

The Justice Dept. used government authority to compel these banks to pay this money, and then allowed them to send it to the likes of La Raza, instead of either compensating the victims they were fined for having transgressed against, or sending the money to taxpayers as a penalty for their wrongdoings. This is among the most corrupt abuses of government authority when money taken by fines is diverted to political organizations that have a clear agenda representing an extreme point of view.

Imagine if Hillary Clinton becoming president would have really been a third term of the corrupt Obama Administration. We have to be thankful that Donald Trump was elected to “drain the swamp” in Washington D.C. and reform corrupt government. One place to start will be shutting down the DOJ slush fund and then repealing Dodd-Frank as well.
http://conservativefiringline.com/not-surprised-obama-doj-slush-fund-scandal/

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Where he gonna get his money for clothes for school?