Anonymous ID: 2e83a1 June 1, 2022, 3:35 a.m. No.16379435   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9472 >>9610

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/30/trump-russia-collusion-fbi-cody-shearer-memo

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Second Trump-Russia dossier being assessed by FBI

Exclusive: memo written by former journalist Cody Shearer independently sets out some of the allegations made by ex-spy Christopher Steele

The second memo was written by Cody Shearer, a controversial political activist and former journalist who was close to the Clinton White House in the 1990s.

Unlike Steele, Shearer does not have a background in espionage, and his memo was initially viewed with scepticism, not least because he had shared it with select media organisations before the election.

However, the Guardian has been told the FBI investigation is still assessing details in the “Shearer memo” and is pursuing intriguing leads.

Anonymous ID: 2e83a1 June 1, 2022, 3:41 a.m. No.16379447   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9472 >>9610

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>President Biden is likely to avoid an audit that could reveal whether he made money from Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings after the IRS rejected a whistleblower complaint that alleged the 46th president owes at least $127,000 in taxes, The Post reported last week.

https://nypost.com/2022/04/18/biden-accountant-hit-with-irs-whistleblower-complaints-on-tax-day/

Biden, accountant hit with IRS whistleblower claim that prez owes at least $127K

President Biden and his accountant are facing new IRS whistleblower complaints alleging that Biden owes at least $127,000 in back taxes.

The complaints were filed by Chris Jacobs, a former Republican aide on Capitol Hill, to coincide with Monday’s federal tax filing deadline.

“Federal agencies must implement laws on a non-partisan basis,” Jacobs told The Post. “The fact that the IRS did not audit Joe Biden’s 2017 through 2019 returns, despite several articles publicly raising questions about the propriety of his actions, raises questions about how the IRS administers our nation’s tax laws, and whether political considerations played a role in the IRS’ decisions.”

Biden and his wife, Jill, avoided paying Medicare taxes on book income and speaking fees in 2017 and 2018 by routing $13.3 million through “S corporations” and counting a small amount as eligible for the federal health care tax.

The strategy is commonly used by wealthy people to dodge the 3.8% Medicare levy on large amounts of income and experts say the IRS lacks the resources to aggressively pursue cases of underpayment.

Republicans are vowing to investigate Biden’s tax situation next year if they retake Congress and regularly accuse him of hypocrisy for urging the wealthy to pay their “fair share.” Biden last year proposed legislation to close the tax loophole and boost IRS enforcement.

Democrats say Biden used a common tax strategy and that there’s no directly analogous case that indicates he was wrong in his calculations.

The IRS offers whistleblowers rewards of between 15% and 30% of what it recovers, but Jacobs wrote in his complaint that he “would gladly forego [sic] any potential remuneration.”

The controversy concerns what legally counts as “reasonable compensation,” a term that determines the share of S corporation income subject to the Medicare tax. Critics argue that Biden’s own labor was responsible for almost all of his speaking fees and book revenue. Therefore, a very large share of the S corporation revenue should face the Medicare tax.

“The facts do not suggest that Mr. Biden arrived at anything approaching a level of ‘reasonable compensation’ consistent with IRS guidelines. Instead, Mr. Biden’s salary level appears to have been set arbitrarily at a level just slightly above the Social Security wage base, with other factors — Mr. Biden’s own salary history, the compensation received by comparable individuals and comparable filers, and the labor vs. capital allocation — all but ignored,” Jacobs wrote.

Anonymous ID: 2e83a1 June 1, 2022, 4:52 a.m. No.16379565   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre

Soldiers pose with three of the four Hotchkiss-designed M1875 mountain guns used at Wounded Knee. The caption on the photograph reads: "Famous Battery 'E' of the 1st Artillery. These brave men and the Hotchkiss guns that Big Foot's Indians thought were toys, Together with the fighting 7th what's left of Gen. Custer's boys, Sent 200 Indians to that Heaven which the ghost dancer enjoys. This checked the Indian noise, and Gen. Miles with staff Returned to Illinois."

Anonymous ID: 2e83a1 June 1, 2022, 4:54 a.m. No.16379571   🗄️.is 🔗kun

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4923342.stm

"I have wondered if the small volumes of nuclear waste from power production should be stored in tropical forests and other habitats in need of a reliable guardian against their destruction by greedy developers