A confidential Internal Revenue Service legal memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless the president takes the rare step of asserting executive privilege, according to a copy of the memo obtained by The Washington Post. Confidential draft IRS memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless president invokes executive privilege: … Read more
Richard Nixon was going to be impeached for the very same misconduct Donald Trump is engaged in now, before he resigned. Article 3 of Nixon’s Articles of Impeachment was for “obstruction of Congress,” i.e, his failure to comply with the lawful subpoenas from Congress. The latest on the Trump administration’s “total obstruction” of Congress: House Judiciary … Read more
Yesterday I explained the legal jeopardy that Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Bond villain Steve Mnuchin, and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig are in for defying federal law, Code sec. 6103(f), by failing to respond to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal’s lawful request for Trump’s taxes. Treasury Defies Law to Deny House Request for Trump’s Tax Returns. But … Read more
I was wrong. I guess Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Bond villain Steve Mnuchin, decided that going to prison for Donald Trump is worth it … Trump’s taxes are the hill that he is willing to die on. The New York Times reports, Treasury Dept. Declines House Request for Trump’s Tax Returns: The Treasury Department said … Read more
I covered this earlier this year, ‘Follow the Money’ – Congress needs to see Trump tax returns, but now House Ways & Means Committee Chair Richard Neal (D-MA) has finalized his demand letter under Code sec. 6103(f)): Upon written request by either the Chairman of either the House Ways and Means Committee or the Senate … Read more