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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: mountaineer on August 16, 2018, 01:35:55 pm

Title: Whistleblower makes shocking IRS, insider trading allegations
Post by: mountaineer on August 16, 2018, 01:35:55 pm: Whistleblower makes shocking IRS, insider trading allegations
By John Crudele
August 15, 2018

A whistleblower made this shocking allegation to me last week: the IRS was tipping off members of Congress to corporate takeovers so the elected officials could profit from insider trading.

My snitch also charged that higher-level employees of the IRS also used that information to enrich themselves.

This may sound crazy but remember: Up until a few years ago members of Congress were allowed to trade stock based on information they got while performing their public duties. ...

Thereâ€™s something you need to understand. The IRS places its workers permanently inside many companies where they continually receive privileged information while doing audits. So thereâ€™s plenty of money-making tips to go around.

The whistleblower said a lot of people got rich from the scheme he was describing.

â€œIn addition my supervisor had planned on informing his manager who then could contact members of Congress so they could invest and profit from this information,â€ he said. â€œIt was a way of securing a comfortable job on one of the boards like the Smithsonian once they retired.â€ ... Full story at New York Post (https://nypost.com/2018/08/15/whistleblower-makes-shocking-irs-insider-trading-allegations)
Title: Re: Whistleblower makes shocking IRS, insider trading allegations
Post by: Sanguine on August 16, 2018, 02:09:43 pm: That would explain a lot.
Title: Re: Whistleblower makes shocking IRS, insider trading allegations
Post by: mountaineer on August 16, 2018, 02:14:02 pm: It sure would (in case anyone was still wondering how "public servants" become millionaires after a few years of collecting a Congressman's salary).
Title: Re: Whistleblower makes shocking IRS, insider trading allegations
Post by: Wingnut on August 16, 2018, 02:17:04 pm: I don't doubt this story at all. But with the foxes guarding the hen house nothing will happen.
Title: Re: Whistleblower makes shocking IRS, insider trading allegations
Post by: catfish1957 on August 16, 2018, 02:19:25 pm: Quote from: mountaineer on August 16, 2018, 01:35:55 pm
Whistleblower makes shocking IRS, insider trading allegations

5 of the last 6 letters I have gotten from IRS were due to their mistakes. Now this? Any wonder why these guys are loved so much? /s
Title: Re: Whistleblower makes shocking IRS, insider trading allegations
Post by: INVAR on August 16, 2018, 02:21:39 pm: So who is surprised at this?
Title: Re: Whistleblower makes shocking IRS, insider trading allegations
Post by: Bigun on August 16, 2018, 08:13:10 pm: Reason #34673 why the Marxist income tax and it's attendant IRS needs to be thrown onto the ash heap of history!

Pass the fairtax! http:// fairtax.org