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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExclusive: Mueller Enlists the IRS for His Trump-Russia Investigation
BETSY WOODRUFF
08.31.17 7:05 PM ET
Special counsel Bob Mueller has teamed up with the IRS. According to sources familiar with his investigation into alleged Russian election interference, his probe has enlisted the help of agents from the IRS Criminal Investigations unit.
This unitknown as CIis one of the federal governments most tight-knit, specialized, and secretive investigative entities. Its 2,500 agents focus exclusively on financial crime, including tax evasion and money laundering. A former colleague of Muellers said he always liked working with IRS special agents, especially when he was a U.S. Attorney.
And it goes without saying that the IRS has access to Trumps tax returnsdocuments that the president has long resisted releasing to the public.
Potential financial crimes are a central part of Muellers probe. One of his top deputies, Andy Weissmann, formerly helmed the Justice Departments Enron probe and has extensive experience working with investigative agents from the IRS.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-mueller-enlists-the-irs-for-his-trump-russia-investigation?via=twitter_page
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)malaise
(269,256 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,675 posts)God forbid he'd tweet his 20 years to life away.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,029 posts)MrPurple
(985 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)That seems to be the focus....
spanone
(135,921 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Donnie,The Law is at your front door,and they want to ask you a couple of questions about your Tax Returns.
Bye Bye Donnie,make sure you mail the donation to Houston before you leave.
Marthe48
(17,089 posts)psych!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)supposedly gave the Vet's,worthless.
Marthe48
(17,089 posts)and all of the other empty pledges.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)took a Charitable write off for several millions. It is called in lieu of any Monetary Value.
Marthe48
(17,089 posts)what's yours is mine and what's mine is mine. Gee, it seems I could go on and on
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)and had to deal with them during my course of Business. So glad I do not need to bastard myself to make ends meet anymore.
ffr
(22,676 posts)This is beginning to look very serious. If I was tRump, I'd be crapping my drawers about now.
madokie
(51,076 posts)he smells like shit anyway
America We can do better than this shit stain, trust me on this
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)greeny2323
(590 posts)There are so many revelations one after another I can't keep up!
ffr
(22,676 posts)ancianita
(36,207 posts)ffr
(22,676 posts)I'm not getting much sleep tonight, I can tell already.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,649 posts)and that is why they started to follow the money.
Ligyron
(7,644 posts)iluvtennis
(19,897 posts)KelleyKramer
(9,006 posts)Ole Donny is probably pooping his pants about now
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)...Mueller replied "I'm already THERE."
This is probably Trump's worst fear. He expected a sort of immunity, and invincibility, in running for office. Instead, things are happening that never would have happened if he'd kept his bloated orange backside in the Apprentice boardroom chair.
KelleyKramer
(9,006 posts)I think he is doing that to use as a pre-emptive strike against any witnesses using a future presidential pardon as a reason not to talk
Now Mueller can tell them a pardon won't do them a bit of good, they better start talking or your ass is fried
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Hekate
(90,978 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)I read it the first time, then I went back and re-read it, and it kept getting funnier. Touche.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)Xolodno
(6,410 posts)Once they were out in public, all his finances would be subject to journalist scrutiny, legal or illegal, without lawyers defending him.
Blue Owl
(50,547 posts)Sweating like a pig, I bet...
roamer65
(36,748 posts)They will get Dump on tax evasion and money laundering, too.
mobeau69
(11,167 posts)The fact that there is not a senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division, and that the Trump people have disregarded it despite warnings as far back as December that they needed to fill the AAGs spot
shows what a self-created mess the Trump administration has found itself in, said the former prosecutor, who requested anonymity to speak candidly. They have no one to keep Mueller and his Brooklyn team honest. They should be concerned about that.
The former prosecutor said it could have benefitted Trump if he had an appointee in the division as these proceedings unfoldand that hes now missed that opportunity.
They could have picked any two people in the world, he added, and they picked nobody.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)Irony, true irony
FakeNoose
(32,854 posts)They're like Eliot Ness and the Untouchables.
Trump and his staff are ones we have to worry about, for at least a little while.
Pretty soon it won't matter any more.
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)Go get him Mueller!