The IRS has started sharing information about Trump aides with special counsel Robert Mueller after a disagreement earlier in the summer about which documents Mueller’s team should have access to, CNN reported Tuesday night, citing unnamed people brief on the matter.
Mueller’s team has received information from the IRS on former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, according to CNN. It’s not clear whether Mueller has obtained President Donald Trump’s tax returns.
The Daily Beast reported earlier this month that Mueller has enlisted help from agents in the IRS’ criminal investigations unit for the Russia probe, signaling Mueller’s focus on Trump allies’ potential financial crimes.
Mueller has a broad mandate in the Russia probe to investigate Russia’s election meddling and any matters that arise from that investigation. Manafort has been under federal investigation for his financial dealings abroad and work for a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine. Federal investigators are also looking into Flynn’s lobbying work for Turkey.
Read CNN’s full report here.
Now maybe we can presume Trump’s tax returns are actually being audited. A Mueller audit.
Yeah. Audited by financial fraud specialists. Should be thorough. Much more thorough than Donnie wants.
And, of course, we can only hope that it gets to testimony, so the rest of the country can finally hear about that which Prez Shitgibbon promised and promised, but never delivered.
Might be getting time to lay in some more popcorn, before there is a run on it.
Popcorn, hell!
I don’t pretend to know a damn thing about tax law, but I was thinking that this could be one of those areas where state law and federal law overlap. By that I mean that if you’ve committed federal tax fraud, you’ve probably also committed state tax fraud. I could be totally wrong on that, but it seems there must be some intersection. Any lawyers with any insight here?
Oh, you tease.