Leaks: US Supreme Court Staffer Leaks Roe v Wade... WitchHunt Protests Police Ensue

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 01:35:13 PST 2022


Leftists, aka AOC the Gala Investigated's "Tax The Rich" type squad,
also behind Illegal Leaks of Business Magnates Tax Returns

Theft Extortion Robbery are Crimes, thus "Tax" is a Crime.


Ken Griffin Sues IRS Over Leaked Returns, Says Employees 'Deliberately
Stole' Confidential Data

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/billionaire-ken-griffin-sues-irs-over-tax-disclosure.html
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

Billionaire hedge fund owner Ken Griffin has sued the IRS and the
Treasury Department after his tax information was 'unlawfully
disclosed' as part of a 2021 leak published in ProPublica.

In a Tuesday complaint filed in the Southern District of Florida, the
Citadel founder and CEO accused the IRS of violating its "legal
obligations to safeguard and protect his information from unauthorized
disclosure," and for willfully and intentionally failing to "establish
appropriate administrative, technical or physical safeguards" to
prevent such a leak, CNBC reports.

In its report, ProPublica - the recipient of the leaked data, revealed
how top billionaires such as Elon Musk and Carl Ichan have been able
to avoid paying federal taxes in certain years. The outlet said it the
information was obtained via an anonymous source.

Griffin reported an average income of $1.7 billion between 2013 and
2018, according to the report.

    One ProPublica article focused on Griffin’s opposition to an
Illinois ballot measure – which he spent $54 million to oppose – which
would have increased his state tax bill by over $50 million a year.

    Griffin was not listed as one of the billionaires who paid zero or
low tax rates in any one year, and, in fact, the ProPublica tax
information showed Griffin pays a higher effective tax rate than many
top earners. It also showed he was the second-largest American
taxpayer between 2013 and 2018. -CNBC

According to the lawsuit, Griffin is "proud of his success and has
always sought to pay his fair share of taxes," but that after 2019,
"IRS personnel exploited the IRS’s willful failure to establish
adequate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards for the
IRS’s data and records systems to misappropriate confidential tax
return information for the highest earning U.S. taxpayers, including
Mr. Griffin, and then unlawfully disclosed those materials to
ProPublica for publication."

The IRS inspector general and the DOJ have been investigating the
leaks, but have yet to file charges. Republicans, meanwhile, say
they're frustrated by a lack of progress. In October, GOP members of
the House Ways and Means Committee sent a letter to Treasury Secretary
Janet Yellen which insisted that "the American people remain in the
dark about who was responsible and how the Treasury Department allowed
this to happen."

Conservatives have also highlighted the leak in their opposition to
the Biden administration's $80 billion in additional funding, which
was passed this summer.

Griffin notably spent $60 million during the midterm elections,
becoming the second-largest donor to Republicans.

"IRS employees deliberately stole the confidential tax returns of
several hundred successful American business leaders," Griffin said in
a statement. "It is unacceptable that government officials have failed
to thoroughly investigate this unlawful theft of confidential and
personal information. Americans expect our government to uphold the
laws of our nation when it comes to our private and personal
information – whether it be tax returns or health care records."


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