President Barack Obama’s naming Judge Merrick Garland as his pick to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court, has been front and center in the nation’s headlines. Not so high profile was his nomination of five lawyers to serve on federal district court benches in Texas.
In the Republican debate on Thursday, Ted Cruz was able to explore the theme of corruption from two important angles: the corrupt intersection of Big Government and Big Business, and the devastation wrought by corrupt Democrat politics on the very city he was speaking in, Detroit.
“If we nominate Donald, we end up electing Hillary [Clinton] as president,” 2016 Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said, encouraging Georgia voters at Saturday’s rally in Atlanta to vote for him over Donald Trump in the pivotal Super Tuesday election.
A former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent tells Bloomberg it would be unusual for GOP frontrunner Donald Trump to be audited for 12 years.
GOP presidential candidate and Texas Ted Cruz spoke to a packed house at the Harris County Lincoln-Reagan dinner. There were more than 1,200 Republicans gathered to hear their fellow Houstonian.
Testifying before Congress on Thursday, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen the demands of enforcing ObamaCare for poor customer service and cybersecurity.
The government’s Obamacare program gave up $750 million in taxpayer subsidies to roughly 470,000 illegal immigrants and individuals without verified immigration status, says a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee report obtained by Fox News.
Sources tell Politico that House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) plans to proceed with an investigation into federal record-keeping practices, with the blessing of House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI)… provided the probe proceeds with “caution” when it hits Hillary Clinton’s email server.
Despite a court preservation order, the IRS has wiped the hard drive of their former director of transfer pricing operations, Samuel Maruca.
Even the New York Times is conceding that the huge number of Americans willing to pay a special tax to escape from ObamaCare is newsworthy, although the paper tries to sugar-coat the bad news as much as possible:
Although President Barack Obama likes to snarl about the unfairness of income inequality, under his administration, the 400 top earning American families now pay about one-third less of their income in taxes than under President Ronald Reagan.
More than $46 million worth of tax refunds were erroneously issued last year due to potentially fraudulent tax returns, an audit conducted by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has found.
IRS agent Samuel Garza is free on bail, after Tennessee Circuit Court Judge Joseph Woodruff slashed his bond in half. Garza is charged with two felony counts of sexual battery against a female business owner he was auditing in Fairview, Tennessee. His bond was initially set at $300,000 before being cut to $150,000 last week. He walked free on Friday.
IRS agent Samuel Garza.arrested in September on two felony charges of sexual battery committed against a female business owner during the course of an audit, was released from the Williamson County Jail late Friday.
Taxpayer-funded Planned Parenthood affiliates were among the 24 nonprofits devoting more than half their total spending to influence elections between 2008 and 2013, in an apparent violation of tax rules, says a new report.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has written a letter in response to questions from Senator Ron Wyden regarding the use of cell-site simulator technology, both admitting to use of the “StingRay” devices and expressing a desire to continue doing so in
The Clinton Foundation will “amend” its tax returns for the last four years, to correct “errors in the report of donations from foreign governments,” as reported by Fox News.
IRS agent Samuel Garza is facing felony charges of sexual battery. A Williamson County Tennessee grand jury has indicted Garza, who was arrested on September 3 while caught on video during an IRS audit he was conducting of a convenience store owned by a woman in Fairview, Tennessee.
Last week we reported on the investigation by Senators Chuck Grassley and Patrick Leahy into potential IRS abuse of “StingRay” cell site simulation devices. Now the House of Representatives is getting in on the action.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) appeared on Saturday’s “America’s News HQ” on Fox News Channel, talking about the IRS scandal, saying the IRS has “created a culture of discrimination.” Scott said people would “challenge the system immediately” if the scandal was
DES MOINES, Iowa — GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said with the flat tax plan that he supports, the IRS can be abolished, and America can put those 90,000 IRS employees to work down at the Southern Border.
The IRS are getting a taste of their own medicine, courtesy of investigation by Sens. Chuck Grassley and Patrick Leahy, into the IRS’s use of cell phone tracking by way of cell site simulators, or “StingRays.”
Paul Ryan has an opportunity as the new Speaker of the House, but it’s going to take courage to stand up to the failed status quo in Washington. He’s well equipped to make the pivot, if he’s willing to show some guts. He’s already seen firsthand what failed business as usual on Capitol Hill looks like.
Tremaine Aldon Neverson, better known by his stage name as Trey “Trigga” Songz, is the latest Obama-supporting hip-hop artist to be targeted by the IRS for neglecting to pay his federal tax bill.
Sources tell Breitbart News that the three candidates vying to replace Speaker Boehner—Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL) , and House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)—are likely to face questions about whether they support Jim Jordan’s call to impeach the IRS’s Koskinen. They’ll meet behind closed doors to answer questions from their GOP colleagues in Washington this evening.
Trump’s unveiling of the tax plan was a tremendous performance. Part of the secret to his success is that he sounds like what many people imagine they would sound like, given a megaphone to shout their discontent into the faces of the U.S. political establishment. That’s why Trump’s popularity doesn’t seem to take much of a hit when he gets rough with likable competitors, such as Senator Marco Rubio, who he dismissed as something akin to a hapless child during his press conference on Monday.
Paul G. Hurley, 42, an IRS agent based in Seattle, is facing charges of soliciting and accepting a $20,000 bribe from a marijuana shop owner Hurley was auditing.
Dan Mandis, host of WWTN 99.7 FM radio’s early afternoon (noon to 3 pm) talk show in Nashville, TN, interviewed Breitbart’s Michael Patrick.Leahy on his reporting about Samuel Garza, an IRS agent charged with two counts of sexual battery and
IRS agent Samuel Garza committed multiple acts of sexual battery against her while conducting an audit of her business, a woman in her fifties who owns a convenience store in Fairview, Tennessee, testified at a dramatic two hour preliminary hearing held on Tuesday in Williamson County General Sessions Court.
Another IRS agent, Jeremiah Beaty, is facing charges in Tennessee. This time the accusation is child porn. Breitbart News has confirmed that Beaty was arrested on child porn charges in August. Remarkably, the IRS is apparently still allowing Beaty to work while the charges are pending and granting him access the IRS Internet Network.
The head of Concerned Women for America is calling for an official IRS investigation into the conduct of an IRS agent charged with sexual battery, but the agency appears to be doing little, if anything, to look into the matter.
Samuel Garza, the IRS agent charged with two counts of sexual battery by an authority figure, has replaced his Williamson County Public Defender’s Office attorney with a private attorney in a “notice of substitution” announced by the District Attorney’s Office.
IRS agent Garza is scheduled to appear on Wednesday in Williamson County Court. He’s being held on two counts of sexual battery by an authority figure that allegedly occurred while he was on official IRS business, conducting an audit of a Fairview, Tennessee business.
FRANKLIN, Tennessee–Samuel Garza, the IRS agent who was charged on Thursday by the Williamson County (Tennessee) Sheriff’s Office with two counts of sexual battery by an authority figure, has refused a request to be interviewed by Breitbart News.
A 36-year old Internal Revenue Service agent is facing charges of sexual battery by an authority figure. The Tennessean reports that Samuel Garza, an IRS agent, was arrested by the Williamson County Sheriff’s (Tennessee) Office on Thursday “after authorities say he sexually assaulted a woman while he was performing an audit on a Fairview, Tennessee business.”
The government’s boasts of transparency and accountability stand revealed as toxic illusions. There is nothing “transparent” about answering pertinent questions years later. No one is held accountable at all, even though a strong case can be made that the politicized IRS tipped the 2012 election. Rest assured, that case would be made very loudly if this was the tale of a Republican president’s re-election campaign intimidating minority and environmentalist groups by slow-walking their tax-exempt applications.
Atalanta-based Grammy Award winner Rapper T.I., aka Clifford Harris, owes a grand total of $4,570,759.86 in unpaid taxes, the Daily Mail reports, despite supporting President Obama, who has increased several taxes on wealthy Americans.
Every government hacking story seems to include subsequent revelations that the problem is at least twice as bad as the authorities originally admitted.
Sarah Palin offered a scathing response on Facebook to a new Senate report revealing that Lois Lerner, the director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations unit, targeted Palin’s daughter Bristol.
After the hearings were over, Judge Sullivan wrote an order calling the Administration’s resistance to his orders “nonsensical” and clearly stating that IRS Commissioner John Koskinen and others “shall be directed to show cause as to why they should not be held in contempt of Court” if they continue dragging their feet.
