Rod Rosenstein Has New Friends In Baltimore

"Watch me make history."

My Memo Man, Rod Rosenstein, is in Baltimore, in a corporate law firm, with lots of new friends and Sally Yates.

Can you say "Land Bank"?

How about 2018 election interference.

Perhaps, just perhaps, if we are all very nice, My Memo Man will say "gerrymandering".

I would throw out "drugs, weapons, and tiny humans", but that would give away the mystery as to why he took the position.

I never did like Sally Yates because she took a peculiar stance in a piece she wrote, while at DOJ, entitled, "Poverty is not a crime" and failed to acknowledge where she got that line, then turned around and bastardized it by not making one single reference to child welfare.

She was mean to my Sweetie.

It seems I did not preserve her writings, neither did the DOJ.

My Memo Man is busy, busy, busy.

Stay tuned.

Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Joins King & Spalding as a Partner in Washington, D.C.

Rosenstein is the latest high-ranking Justice Department official to join the firm’s Special Matters & Government Investigations team; he will work closely with a deep bench of former federal prosecutors and senior government officials to help clients with their most challenging litigation, enforcement and reputational issues.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 2020 — King & Spalding today announced that former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein joins the firm’s Washington, D.C., office as a partner on its Special Matters & Government Investigations team.

Rosenstein spent almost two decades in senior legal management and leadership positions at the U.S. Department of Justice during the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, including as Deputy Attorney General (2017 to 2019) and United States Attorney (2005 to 2017). Prior to his appointment as the Department’s second-highest ranking official, he was the longest-serving Senate-confirmed U.S. Attorney in recent history.

“Rod Rosenstein is an exceptional trial lawyer, strategist and leader with unquestioned integrity and toughness,” said Robert D. Hays, Jr., chairman of King & Spalding. “His arrival underscores the firm’s longstanding commitment to effective advocacy on the most complex and highest stakes government-related matters. Our clients will benefit from the unique experience of Rod and other senior government officials working together as a team. His arrival reflects the firm’s intent to continue building leading practices led by extraordinary lawyers to serve clients on their most pressing and sensitive needs.”

With his vast prosecutorial and enforcement background, Rosenstein becomes another critical member of King & Spalding’s Special Matters & Government Investigations team, which assists clients—corporate, institutional and individual—in sensitive and reputational legal challenges, including many involving government agencies, legislative bodies or state Attorneys General. In the past two years, the firm has significantly ramped up the group with an all-star roster of former senior Justice Department officials, including former Deputy U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates, former U.S. Attorneys Zachary Fardon and John Horn, former Associate Deputy Attorney General Alicia O’Brien and former FBI Chief of Staff Zack Harmon. Other former senior officials recently joining the firm include former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and former General Counsel for the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) and acting USTR Stephen Vaughn.

Rosenstein said, “I worked with many current and former firm lawyers in both Republican and Democratic administrations, and I learned that some of the best lawyers in the world work at King & Spalding. When considering where to go after leaving the Department of Justice, it became clear to me why so many former government officials choose this firm. With an unparalleled depth of experience across its practice groups and a long and distinguished record of success in courtrooms, King & Spalding is a bipartisan firm that focuses on helping clients resolve complex and sensitive matters in the United States and abroad. The inclusive and collaborative culture allows every client to benefit from the broad expertise and deep insight of more than 1,100 exceptional lawyers throughout the firm’s 21 offices. I look forward to working with my new colleagues to expand the firm’s government investigations, national security and cybersecurity practices.” 

As Deputy U.S. Attorney General, Rosenstein formulated and implemented Department policies and programs; coordinated interactions with the White House and other federal agencies, the Judiciary, and the Congress; interacted with state, local, and foreign government leaders; and provided supervision and direction to all Department components, including its litigating divisions and law enforcement agencies.

Rosenstein conducted complex investigations and handled litigation in trial and appellate courtrooms as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Department’s Tax Division (2001 to 2005), as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland (1997 to 2001), and as an Associate Independent Counsel (1995 to 1997).

Rosenstein started his legal career in 1989, as a law clerk to Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He first joined the Department of Justice as a trial attorney in the prestigious Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division (1990 to 1993), before serving as counsel to the Deputy Attorney General and the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division (1993 to 1995). In these and other roles, he received dozens of awards and honors for his performance. In addition, Rosenstein gained impressive trial experience while representing the United States at 23 jury trials and arguing 21 appeals in various appellate courts around the country, including the 2018 U.S. Supreme Court criminal case of Chavez-Meza v. United States, in which the Court ruled in favor of his argument.

“Rod deserves his well-earned reputation for being decisive and unflappable in extraordinary professional situations,” said Special Matters practice chair Wick Sollers. “His experiences conducting and supervising large criminal and civil litigation uniquely qualify him to counsel and defend clients facing complex investigations, lawsuits and enforcement matters. Clients will benefit from his big-picture perspective, as well as his insights from having updated, improved and formulated federal law enforcement policies on corporate and white-collar enforcement, national security, CFIUS and cyber-digital issues. King & Spalding’s Special Matters & Government Investigations team is stronger with his addition.”

Rosenstein graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, with a B.S. in Economics, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

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After Trump administration stint, Baltimore is still on Rod Rosenstein’s mind

As he takes a job with a high-profile law firm, Maryland’s former longtime U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein isn’t looking to talk much about his time with the Trump administration. He’s turned down book offers, and avoids questions on the subject.

If he did write a book, Rosenstein told The Baltimore Sun Wednesday, “it would probably be a lot about Baltimore.”

The city remains on the former deputy U.S. attorney general’s mind, after 12 years leading federal law enforcement efforts that he said were key to the city experiencing fewer than 200 homicides in 2011. (There were 348 homicides in the city last year.) He remains in touch with protege Robert K. Hur, who succeeded him as U.S. attorney for Maryland.

“It’s important for everybody at the federal, state and local level to agree that reducing murders is a priority,” Rosenstein said. “I’m hopeful they’ll get back to where we were before ... but it’s going to take a long time.”

The law firm of King & Spalding announced that Rosenstein will join its special government investigations team, following about eight months he spent with his family after stepping down as deputy attorney general. Rosenstein said it was Maryland’s former Republican governor Robert Ehrlich who helped connect him to the new job after they had lunch in the summer.

Rosenstein’s tumultuous two-year tenure included writing a memo supporting the firing of FBI Director James Comey and overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

[Read more] Before leaving Baltimore, Rod Rosenstein predicted he might not last long as deputy attorney general »
Of his tenure, Rosenstein said, “I’ve been out of government for eight months, and I’m on to a new career. ... I’m practicing law, not politics."

Rosenstein has continued to weigh in on Baltimore’s crime rates and on issues of law enforcement. On Jan. 1, he tweeted: “When Baltimore City prosecutors and police worked with federal and state partners to send every violent repeat offender to prison in 2011, only 197 people were murdered. Now criminals murder 350 victims and shoot hundreds more every year. WHAT CHANGED?”

When Baltimore City prosecutors and police worked with federal and state partners to send every violent repeat offender to prison in 2011, only 197 people were murdered. Now criminals murder 350 victims and shoot hundreds more every year. WHAT CHANGED? https://t.co/7dUt2yd5Bt

— Rod Rosenstein (@RodRosenstein) January 1, 2020

Rosenstein maintains other ties to the city — he was scheduled to speak to a city law club, the Serjeants’ Inn, Wednesday night.

Rosenstein noted that the number of federal prosecutors in Baltimore increased significantly when he was No. 2 at the Justice Department.

“That’s not because I was showing favoritism; we had additional resources and were able to allocate them based on population and crime rates and need,” he said.

He said Hur is “doing a superb job,” and suggested, without citing specific agencies, that other law enforcement partners are not on the same page.

“If people are not being caught and prosecuted locally, they need to find out why that is,” Rosenstein said. “We had a decade of sustained improvements in Baltimore. We had improvements in Prince George’s County [as well] — the PG County improvements have stuck; they have not fallen back. Baltimore is worse today than when I got there 15 years ago.”

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Thomas D'Alesandro III, Nancy Pelosi's Brother Has Passed

Elijah Cummings also recently died.

Nancy Pelosi's brother and former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro III has died

Thomas D'Alesandro III

(CNN)Thomas D'Alesandro III, a former Baltimore mayor who led the city during the 1968 riots and brother of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has died.

"My husband Paul and our entire family are devastated by the loss of our patriarch, my beloved brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III," Pelosi said Sunday in a statement released by her office. "Tommy was the finest public servant I have ever known."

The Baltimore Sun reported D'Alesandro, who served as Baltimore's mayor from 1967 to 1971, died Sunday at his Baltimore home after complications of a stroke. He was 90.
Born to an Italian-American family and known as "Young Tommy," D'Alesandro had a political upbringing.

His father, Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., served in the US House of Representatives from 1939 to 1947 and as the mayor of Baltimore for 12 years after that. His sister, Nancy, became the first woman to serve as speaker of the House in 2007.

His mother Anunciata, who also went by Nancy, was an inventor who patented a device to apply steam to the face -- effectively an at home facial. She helped her husband in politics, supporting him as he became Baltimore's first Catholic mayor.

Pelosi, who just last week lost colleague and friend Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings at age 68, also remembered her brother as someone dedicated to the family's hometown of Baltimore.
"His life and leadership were a tribute to the Catholic values with which we were raised: faith, family, patriotism. He profoundly believed, as did our parents, that public service was a noble calling and that we all had a responsibility to help others," she said.

Devout Catholics, Pelosi said her brother is now with the angels.

"All his life, Tommy worked on the side of the angels. Now, he is with them," she said.
D'Alesandro is survived by his wife Margaret, his children Thomas, Dominic, Nicholas, Patricia and Gregory, and his grandchildren "whom he adored," Pelosi said in the statement.

Baltimore Mayor Jack Young, a Democrat, expressed his condolences to Pelosi and the D'Alesandro family in a statement Sunday, saying the former mayor will be "remembered for his commitment to and love for" the city.

"He guided the city at a tumultuous time and made important strides while in office like creating summer recreation programs for youth, removing racial barriers in employment and education and laying the groundwork for what would become the world-famous Inner Harbor," Young said.
This story has been updated.

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Elijah Cummings Has Left Congress Forever

Much love, Elijah.

US Rep. Elijah Cummings has died from complications of longtime health challenges, his office said in a statement

October 17, 2019

BALTIMORE (AP) ⁠— Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings died early Thursday at Johns Hopkins Hospital due to complications from longstanding health challenges, his congressional office said. He was 68.

A sharecropper's son, Cummings became the powerful chairman of a U.S. House committee that investigated President Donald Trump, and was a formidable orator who passionately advocated for the poor in his black-majority district, which encompasses a large portion of Baltimore as well as more well-to-do suburbs.

As chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Cummings led multiple investigations of the president's governmental dealings, including probes in 2019 relating to the president's family members serving in the White House.

Trump responded by criticizing the Democrat's district as a "rodent-infested mess" where "no human being would want to live." The comments came weeks after Trump drew bipartisan condemnation following his calls for Democratic congresswomen of color to get out of the U.S. "right now," and go back to their "broken and crime-infested countries."

Cummings replied that government officials must stop making "hateful, incendiary comments" that only serve to divide and distract the nation from its real problems, including mass shootings and white supremacy.

"Those in the highest levels of the government must stop invoking fear, using racist language and encouraging reprehensible behavior," Cummings said in a speech at the National Press Club.

Cummings' long career spanned decades in Maryland politics. He rose through the ranks of the Maryland House of Delegates before winning his congressional seat in a special election in 1996 to replace former Rep. Kweisi Mfume, who left the seat to lead the NAACP.

Cummings continued his rise in Congress. In 2016, he was the senior Democrat on the House Benghazi Committee, which he said was "nothing more than a taxpayer-funded effort to bring harm to Hillary Clinton's campaign" for president.

Cummings was an early supporter of Barack Obama's presidential bid in 2008.

I'm begging the American people to pay attention to what is going on. Because if you want to have a democracy intact for your children, and your children's children, and generations yet unborn we've got to guard this moment…this is our watch. pic.twitter.com/ShTZwbQROP

— Elijah E. Cummings (@RepCummings) July 24, 2019

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#ukrainegate - Kurt Volker, Rudy Giulian, China, Text Messages & The Impeachment 2020 Re-election Campaign

It seems Kurt and Rudy did not get the Detroit Text Message Memo.

#sayhisname

Trump’s former Ukraine envoy reveals damaging texts

Kurt Volker

Kurt Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine, gives House Democrats the first deposition in their impeachment inquiry.

Even as President Donald Trump ignited a huge controversy over China and the 2020 election on Thursday, House members were clashing over the closed-door testimony of the former special envoy to Ukraine and Trump’s alleged efforts to pressure officials in that country for dirt on Joe Biden and his son.

The former envoy, Kurt Volker, who is at the center of a scandal that may lead to Trump’s impeachment, spent more than eight hours on Thursday being deposed by lawmakers and aides from three House committees. The committees are looking into allegations that include whether Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani improperly pressured Ukrainian officials to launch an investigation into Biden while withholding U.S. military aid.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched an impeachment inquiry last week following the revelation that Trump urged his Ukrainian counterpart, President Volodymyr Zelensky, to investigate Biden during a phone call on July 25.

“This week, current and former State Department officials have begun cooperating with the impeachment inquiry by producing documents and scheduling interviews and depositions," said Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Ca.), Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the chairmen of the Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight and Reform committees in a joint statement Thursday night. "Based on the first production of materials, it has become immediately apparent why Secretary Pompeo tried to block these officials from providing information.”

Volker provided Democrats with 60 pages of text messages and other documents that showed some senior State Department officials were outraged that the Trump administration would try to make aid to Ukraine contingent on efforts to help the president’s reelection campaign.

One text between Volker and Andrey Yermak, a top Zelensky adviser, on July 25 — the day of the Trump-Zelenksy call — linked a Zelensky visit to the Washington to whether the Ukrainians moved ahead with the Biden probe. Volker said "Heard from the White House. Assuming President Z convinces [T]rump he will investigate/ 'get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down date for visit to Washington."

And in another more controversial text, a senior American diplomat expressed outrage to any linkage between U.S. aid to whether the Ukrainians took the steps Trump and Giuliani wanted.

“I think it’s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign,” said Bill Taylor, the chargé d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, in a Sept. 9 text message.

But Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, strongly denied in a response to Taylor that this was Trump’s purpose.

“Bill, I believe you are incorrect about President Trump’s intentions,” Sondland wrote. “The President has been crystal clear: no quid pro quo’s of any kind. The President is trying to evaluate whether Ukraine is truly going to adopt the transparency and reforms that President Zelensky promised during his campaign.”

Republicans insisted that Volker testified that Trump never sought a “quid pro quo” from Zelensky, despite the new documents and Democrats’ repeated questions on the topic.

“What we do know is there was definitely not quid-pro-quo,” Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a member of the House Oversight and Reform panel, told reporters after leaving the Volker deposition. “Any comments that would indicate that there was some nefarious purpose on behalf of this president was not backed up by the facts today.”

“If there was an Academy Award for leading the witness, my Democratic colleagues would have gotten three Oscars today,” Meadows added.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), without offering specifics, said Volker’s testimony “blew a massive hole” through allegations that Trump sought a quid pro quo from the Ukrainian leader leader.

But Sondland and Volker — under pressure from Giuliani — were also asked to draft a statement saying Ukrainian officials were committed to beginning investigations into Biden and other Trump rivals. Volker testified about that episode to congressional investigators on Thursday, according to several people involved in the hearing. The New York Times first reported the intent to draft the statement.

One source said Volker testified that he wanted a broader statement on the Ukrainians fighting corruption. Giuliani, though, pushed for a statement more narrowly focused on Burisma — the Ukrainian energy firm on whose board Hunter Biden sat — and a possible Ukrainian role in the 2016 U.S. election, a near obsession with Trump. No statement was ever drafted, Volker said.

Volker also told investigators that he warned Giuliani that he was being fed some incorrect information on the Bidens from Ukrainian contacts, particularly Yuriy Lutsenko, the country’s former top prosecutor.

“The ambassador’s view of Ukrainian corruption and Rudy Giuliani’s view of corruption are at odds with one another,” Meadows acknowledged. “I think the ambassador had a much more forward-looking position on what he believes the new Ukrainian government will do, and I think that’s at odds with what Rudy Giuliani believes.”

Giuliani’s role in the Ukrainian scandal was the focus of a “significant portion” of Thursday’s session, according to sources familiar with the hearing, and Democrats accused the former New York mayor and ex-federal prosecutor of being involved in a “shakedown” of the Ukrainiains on Trump’s behalf.

“We saw further evidence that there was a shadow shakedown, and I would say, the lead deputy for the president was Rudy Giuliani,” said Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee. “You had an experienced diplomat, working for free as a special envoy, who in many ways was a front for the work being done on the side, parallel to his efforts, by Rudy Giuliani.”

According to Swalwell, there is “more and more evidence that the president of the United States was improperly using his office, using our taxpayer dollars, to leverage help from an ally in our upcoming 2020 elections.”

Volker is mentioned in a whistleblower complaint that fueled the impeachment inquiry. The complaint notes that Zelensky met with Volker the day after his phone call with Trump, and says the envoy tried to help Ukrainian officials figure out how to “navigate” Trump’s demands.

Giuliani and associate give conflicting accounts on origins of Ukraine caper

The Trump administration held up nearly $400 million in foreign aid approved by Congress as Trump and Giuliani lobbied to announced a probe into the Bidens. Trump and Giuliani alleged that Joe Biden, who was vice president at the time, intervened to block an investigation into Burisma in 2016. There is no evidence that an investigation was underway at the time or that Biden intervened to protect his son’s firm.

Giuliani has also pulled Volker into the episode, insisting that he met with Zelensky’s aides at the request of State Department officials — including Volker — and that he briefed the department about his discussions afterward.

On Thursday morning, Giuliani tweeted out screenshots of texts between him and Volker in which the envoy appeared to be arranging meeting times for Giuliani and a Ukrainian official.

The former New York mayor also railed against Democratic lawmakers pursuing impeachment, though he offered a kind word for Volker.

“Crooked Dems not letting Republicans subpoena witnesses and maybe even question witness,” Giuliani claimed in a tweet. “This is a Star Chamber, illicit and part of their conspiracy to violate constitutional rights condoned by their media lamb dogs. Kurt did nothing wrong.”

Volker has said little publicly about the unfolding drama. But the State Department has defended him in the past, saying that a Ukrainian official had asked Volker to connect him with Giuliani, which he did. Volker is a former career Foreign Service officer and ambassador to NATO who is respected among Democrats and Republicans in Washington.

Many foreign policy hands welcomed Volker’s appointment as envoy in 2017 because of his hawkish views on Russia.

Volker held the envoy position on an unpaid, part-time basis. He also works as an adviser to a lobbying firm and as executive director of a Washington think tank named for the late Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

The implication is that aides to Zelensky — a former comedian who won Ukraine’s presidency in April — were trying to establish a link to Giuliani, given his close relationship with Trump.

It’s likely Giuliani got the new Ukrainian government’s attention in part because he spent much of this past spring talking about Ukraine and alleged wrongdoings by the Bidens.

Kurt Volkor Text Messages To U.S. House Foreign Intelligence Committee 10319 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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HUD: Did SIGTARP Have A Special Talk With Ben Carson? Baltimore Press Conference On Opportunity Zones

Ben Carson speaks upon self sufficiency.

Will this self sufficiency assistance contain opportunities for legal representation to go after public corruption in fraudulent mortgage and property tax foreclosure schemes?

What about a bit of self sufficiency support to take out these Public Private Partnership so called land banks which just so happened to be designed to intentionally interfere in elections?

Hey Ben, hook me up with some of that legal self sufficiency stuff and get me with the U.S. Treasury FinCEN so the people in Baltimore and Detroit can stay in the homes before the next round of stealin'.

Now, that TARP - Hardest Hit Funds are all done, HUD seems to be rolling out a new model, walking away from the RFP, and listening to the people.

You must always have a replacement hit the ground running operation in queue.

My only question is, "What is going to happen to all those Public Private Partnerships and their Predictive Modeling Crappy Social Impact Bond Program Fake Ass Operations?

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Cocktails & Popcorn: Trump v. Cummings - Who Will Be The First To Say TARP In Detroit?

Contrary to what the media wishes you to believe, their #coloredrevolution psyoptic has absolutely nothing to do with the epidermis of another human.

Privatization 301 - Gerrymandering & Cartology:
"If you do not live there, you cannot vote there."
(Fall enrollment for the next #coloredrevolution
 starts soon!)

This #coloredrevolution is about the color of property ownership heat ramping maps based upon meshed governmental databases through Public Private Partnerships of foreign operations for the purposes  of stealin', and in this particular instance, I am focusing on TARP, Hardest Hit Funds, because I am the world's expert on stealin'.

Forced migration is a war crime, you know.

Elijah Cummings was the first to speak out upon the stealin' of TARP, a sophisticated, complex fraud scheme developed by "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) to execute the foreign invasion of the bloodless war using Predictive Modeling Crap to implement privatizations by stealin' the children, the land and the votes.

But, Trump is the first person to bear witness to stealin' in the public cybersquare by calling out Baltimore.

President Trump: "Baltimore has been very badly mishandled for many years. And you know Congressman Cummings has been there for a long time, he's had a very iron hand on it. It's a corrupt city, there's no question about it." pic.twitter.com/XE5Ds4rXy6

— The Hill (@thehill) July 30, 2019

Now, the only question left is to figure out who will be the first to say TARP in Detroit.

#sayhisname 

State is 'gold mine' for human trafficking

Baltimore Received $1.8 Billion from Obama’s Stimulus Law

City burned despite ‘massive investment’ implemented by president

Cummings Introduces TARP Accountability Legislation

Companies receiving TARP funds would be required to publicly disclose expenditures

Washington, DC—Today, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), a senior member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and member of the Joint Economic Committee, introduced the Accountability from Corporations for Outlays Under TARP (ACCOUNT) Act, which would require institutions receiving assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to report expenditures on corporate junkets, executive compensation and bonuses, and other employee perks.

“When these companies come to us on their knees begging for money and then turn around and continue the partying on Wall Street with the corporate junkets and million-dollar bonuses, it is nothing less than a slap in the face of the American taxpayers,” Congressman Cummings said. “The American people are now shareholders in these companies, and it is only right that we know how our money is being managed and spent.”

Congressman Cummings has been a leading critic of profligate spending by companies that have received TARP funding—particularly expenditures on executive compensation and bonuses, corporate junkets, and sports sponsorships—and is concerned about the lack of transparency with regard to how these institutions are spending taxpayer dollars.

Under the ACCOUNT Act, any company receiving TARP funds would be required to prominently disclose on its website its expenditures on corporate events and junkets, bonuses and compensation, corporate jet use and executive travel, club memberships, and lobbying. The information would be updated monthly.

“While my neighbors in Baltimore continue to lose their jobs and their homes, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to understand why AIG is taking their hard-earned money and then giving away more than a billion dollars in bonuses or why Citigroup is taking this money and then spending $400 million to put its name on a baseball stadium in New York,” Congressman Cummings said. “This bill is an important first step in bringing transparency and accountability to the distribution of TARP funds.”

111th CONGRESS

1st Session

H.R. 846

To require institutions receiving assistance under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to report certain corporate data, and for other purposes.

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February 4, 2009

Mr. Cummings introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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A BILL

To require institutions receiving assistance under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to report certain corporate data, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Accountability from Corporations for Outlays Under TARP Act” or the “Account Act”.

REPORTING BY ASSISTED INSTITUTIONS ON CERTAIN EXPENDITURES.

(a) In General.—Title I of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (12 U.S.C. 5211 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

REPORTING BY ASSISTED INSTITUTIONS ON CERTAIN EXPENDITURES.

“(a) In General.—The Secretary shall require any financial institution that receives any assistance in any form under this title on or after October 3, 2008 (hereafter in this section referred to as the ‘assisted institution’), to publicize on the corporate website of such institution, in a prominent location on the homepage or on a dedicated tab or window accessible through a link prominently displayed on the homepage, the following information, which shall be updated on a monthly basis:

“(1) Total expenditures made by the institution on travel during the month for which the report is being made, including reports on expenditures on each of the following: plane fares, rental cars, hotel expenses, food purchases, and any other expenses incurred by corporate employees during travel.

“(2) Total expenditures made by the institution on lobbying (as defined in the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995) at both the Federal and State levels, including a list of the individual States where lobbying activity was conducted.

“(3) A list of the corporate events, including retreats, conferences, planning sessions, and office parties held at the assisted institution’s place of business or organized at any other location by the assisted institution, citing the city, State, and venue of the event; date of the event; number of attendees at the event; and the entire sum of expenses associated with the event paid by the assisted institution.

“(4) A list of the corporate jets owned and a list of the trips taken by corporate and non-corporate officials on these jets which shall cite the total cost to the assisted institution of operating the jets for each listed trip.

“(5) A list of the corporate sponsorships supported by the company citing the name of each entity sponsored and the amount provided to each sponsored entity.

“(6) A list of the automobiles provided by the assisted institution to employees of the institution and their values together with the cost to the assisted institution of the operation of each automobile.

“(7) The total amount of compensation provided to the employees of the assisted institution, including expenditures on each of bonuses of any kind, retention payments of any kind, and any other form of compensation, citing the form thereof.

“(8) A list of all club or corporate memberships maintained by the assisted institution citing the cost of each membership.

“(9) Total corporate expenditures on furniture, office equipment, and office renovations made during the period by the assisted institution.

“(10) Such other information as the Secretary may require to be disclosed or the assisted institution wishes to disclose.

“(b) Regulations And Compliance.—The Secretary shall—

“(1) prescribe appropriate regulations to implement and carry out this section; and

“(2) establish appropriate mechanisms to ensure appropriate compliance with the requirements of this section”
.

(b) Clerical Amendment.—The table of sections for title I of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 136 the following new item:

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OVERSIGHT: Gosar Makes History By Asking About Child Protective Services, DHS & The Trafficking Tiny Humans Databases - SACWIS, NCMEC

Start @23:26 where Representative Paul Gosar asks McAleenan about ICE detaining children.

He asks about Child Protective Services.

He sets up the caveat of a children being taken across state lines where someone cannot provide water and safety, like ICE.

I want to see someone calling in California, Texas, Arizona Child Protective Services come in and execute their process of legally kidnapping children.

How come children in ICE do not get CPS intervention, considering CPS will snatch a kid if the wind blows in a different direction.

Elijah Cummings is not happy because ICE refuses to release information about the children.

Elijah does not know that "in the best interests of the child" DHS does not have to release anything.

Those kids are being fast tracked on concurrent planning, which means adoption.

Chatter on the streets, as Michigan got those contracts, is new identities are being assigned.

DHS cannot even mesh with SACWIS, well, at least not in Michigan because Nancy Edmunds allowed the state to dole out more money, to try and fix a human trafficking data base, that was never designed to do anything but to generate false claims in modern day residuals of the peculiar institution.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has a database, too.

Thank you, Paul, for making history.

For McAleenan to say he does not know what to do, is ground for his removal from office because all he had to do was to use google because I have databases, unless I am suppressed by Google in searches, which would mean he is being improperly advised in search results, but I digress.

The U.S. has other borders, but no one is talking about the trafficking of tiny humans from our ports or Norther boarder, or our other Southern border, in Michigan, or children from other countries, like Russia, Ukraine, Kosovo, Poland, Haiti, Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya....and the list goes on.

What is going on is the policy of Lebensborn.

I broke this down to its most simplistic factors for understanding about the industry of the residuals of the peculiar institution called Foster Care & Adoption.

Just close your eyes and allow the imagines of The Good Ship Jesus, whose cargo was tiny humans, trafficked across borders.

Once a border baby is placed in the privatized contract of a state, Michigan, the financial ratlines commence for a life of hell for these children... under Michigan laws, where MIED Judge Nancy Edmunds will not do a damn thing about for the last 15 years or so about Michigan, Child Welfare System, because it all started in Michigan.

How come no one asked the State Department to come in and discuss USAID and its foreign, child welfare corporate NGO contractors like the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops?

DWS got real on McAleenan not knowing about interior children being picked up and placed in Un Accompanied Children policy care.

This is more CPS activity of privately contracted Child Placing Agencies.

This is about parental rights.

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OVERSIGHT: Hearing on Hatch Act Violations Without Kellyanne Conway Without - But She Showed Up For Hannity - A Question Of Ethics

Kellyanne Conway did not show up for her subpoenaed request to attend the U.S. House Oversight Hearing on Hatch Act violations.

But she did show up for her interview on FOX News with Sean Hannity.

What Kellyanne fails to understand is that this hearing was not just about her, but the history of using political campaign resources and the resources of an elected office for personal inurement.

Kellyanne fails to understand that by ignoring congress, she has now opened herself up to being challenged of being stripped of, not just her attorney client privilege immunities, but her license to practice law, itself.

Kellyanne fails to understand that she is held to a higher scrutiny because she is a public figure, beholden to a very special set of laws in ethics.

Speaking of ethics, I believe Trump is still obstructing justice by keeping that DOJ OIG Report, referred by the Ethics Committee, in his backpocket.

Kellyanne has much to be concerned about ethical content of her character because.

Trump, a non-attorney, did not advise her not to attend a congressional hearing, that was Don McGahn, another licensed attorney to falsely advise Trump, who has his own ethical dilemma when it comes to Detroit.

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OVERSIGHT: The Trump Administration’s Child Separation Policy: Substantiated Allegations of Mistreatment - It Is Called Legally Kidnapped

FUN FACT! FOSTER CARE & ADOPTION IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING

We know it as being Legally Kidnapped.

If you think separating a child from the parents at the border is bad, just wait until these "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) are forced to speak upon foster care and adoption.

HHS just got $3 billion in funding for immigrant children, so you know what that means for foster care and adoption...

Watergate covered up CAPTA.

Whitewater covered up ASFA.

Russiagate is covering up the Families First Act.

I still have yet to figure out if the Witness, Nagda is lying in the congressional record to cover up crimes against humanity, compromised, or just dumb as dirt.

Q: Why did CPS snatch the kid?
A: Because she was having a bad hair day.

Q: What is the best interests of the child?
A: When you meet your federal mandated child placing quotas to keep your job.

Q: Why does congress refuse to speak upon the horrors of trafficking tiny humans in congress?
A: Because, if they do, they will lose their re-election campaign funding.

Q: Why does congress refuse to change the laws in trafficking tiny humans?
A: Because the international markets would crash and "The Elected Ones" would have to focus all their time on campaigning for a legal defense of war crimes.

Q: Why is there Faith Based Funding and Medicaid Expansion private contracts in cue for appropriations for children at the border?
A: Because using foster kids as lab rats is in the best interests of the child, when investing in these foreign corporations on Wall Street.

ICE Homan got real.

It is not DHS nor ICE; it is the law.

Raskin is absolutely clueless as he has no idea of what Termination of Parental Rights is.

Raskin is daft when it comes to what is considered as abuse and neglect.

Failure to provide for the necessary needs of the child is called abuse and neglect, otherwise known as poverty.

Raskin has no idea that it is still legal to procure and purvey tiny humans, and to think, he sits on House Judiciary, or perhaps he does and is just playing dumb.

I have to give him credit for something, you know.

Connolly got dramatic about how we treat children, but refused to talk about domestic and international foster care and adoption.

If he thought these stories at the border were gut wrenching, I would strongly encourage him not to look at ills of child welfare in the United States, particularly the Public Private Partnerships like the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

If he did, we might have to ask Betsy DeVos & co. about their privatized trafficking tiny human contracts.

Maybe, just maybe, one day, someone up there in the Ivory Tower on the Hill will figure out what the word, "except" means in the Thirteenth Amendment.

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. 

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

No one cares because if they did, they would #sayhisname.

Between April 2018 and June 2018, the Trump Administration separated at least 2,800 children from their parents at the southern border under the “zero tolerance” policy that Attorney General Jeff Sessions instituted in April 2018 and a related policy that DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen instituted a few weeks later to refer all parents who made unauthorized border crossings for prosecution. In January 2019, the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services issued a report finding that the Trump Administration may have separated “thousands” of additional children before the zero tolerance policy went into effect.  In addition, the Trump Administration recently admitted to separating an additional 700 children from their parents at the border after June 2018. Recent reports have identified deteriorating conditions in border facilities where children are being detained. For example, reports from the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security have highlighted overcrowded, unhealthy, and unsafe conditions in these facilities, and they have warned that these issues need to be addressed immediately to mitigate health and safety risks. Other recent reports have raised concerns about racist, sexist, and xenophobic views expressed by some Border Patrol officers regarding detained immigrants through a secret Facebook group. 

CHAIRMAN CUMMINGS'OPENING STATEMENT

There are no Truth in Testimony statements.

WITNESSES

Panel 1

Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX)

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA)

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) <=== Detroit is #1 in the nation for trafficking tiny humans.

Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) Minority Witness

Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) Minority Witness

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) Minority Witness

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) Minority Witness

Panel 2

Jennifer L. Costello

Acting Inspector General Department of Homeland Security

Ann Maxwell

Asst.Inspector General for Evaluation and Inspections, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Elora Mukherjee

Jerome L. Greene Clinical Professor of Law Columbia Law School

Jennifer Nagda

Policy Director ,Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights

 Thomas D. Homan 
Former Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Documents

• NOTICE
• Memo

116th Congress

The best way to stop the separation of children from their parents at the borders is to just tell the truth of what will happen to their children upon entry into the U.S.

Very simple.

Anti Immigration Poster by on Scribd

A video by Suncana about kids who have died in U.S. Foster Care featuring Ricky Holland of Michigan.

There was not one mention of the other laws of children coming across the other U.S. borders like the Mann Act or Immigration and Naturalization Act.

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OVERSIGHT: House Oversight Committee to vote on holding Barr, Ross in contempt - SCOTUS v. Congress - Who Will Speak First Upon Trafficking Tiny Humans

This is about the 2020 Census question of citizenship.

So, riddle me this:

If a child is a citizen of Country A, and enters the County B "illegally", where the child from Country A, is placed in the legal custody of a state, privately contracted, foreign corporation, state licensed Child Placing Agency, through an ex-parte legal proceeding, under exigent circumstances, where parental rights are terminated and transferred to the new, foreign corporate parent, being Country C, what is the citizenship of that child?

No one wants to speak upon the industry of trafficking tiny humans.

Now, riddle me this:

If a U.S. child is legally kidnapped by Child Protective Services, functioning as foreign Public Private Partnerships, like Bethany Christian, through the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, placed under aegis of the Guardian Ad Litem of the corporation, is the citizenship of the child Israeli?

Ok, now let us just bifurcate the body and the spirit, or the legal personae, the identity, and the deposit of the chattel of the child, or rather the identity, into a trust, where there are insurance policies, what is the citizenship of the soul?

This is about residuals of the peculiar institution and those databases and intellectual property, which are all part of the children's trusts that these people, who refuse to speak upon this, are in this Committee.

The Census counts body and souls because there is so much fraud, it would completely unravel society as we know it.

This is the destruction of voting rights.

This is gerrymandering.

These are crimes of war.

Welcome to Detroit.

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House Panel Votes For Contempt For Barr, Ross As Justice Dept. Holds Back Documents

Oversight committee Chairman Elijah Cummings can now, with the assent of the House leadership, file suit and ask a judge to order William Barr and Wilbur Ross to provide the census materials he wants.

The separation-of-powers standoff between Congress and the executive branch deepened on Wednesday over a dispute about access to materials involving the controversial citizenship question planned for the 2020 census.

The Justice Department notified the House oversight committee that it's withholding documents sought by the panel's chairman because it says they're shielded by executive privilege — the doctrine that permits an administration to conceal some of its internal workings.

House Votes To Let Its Leaders Pursue Contempt Lawsuits In Trump Inquiries

The letter from Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd arrived electronically at the Capitol at the same time Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., had convened a hearing at which the committee debated whether to find Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress.

After a day's worth of discussion and amendments, it did, voting 24 to 15 by the late afternoon on contempt for the Cabinet officials.

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., who has lately stepped up his criticism of Trump, broke with Republicans to support the measure.

The dispute over documents

Boyd's letter blamed Cummings for the administration's invocation of privilege.

The Justice Department has already provided tens of thousands of documents and access to witnesses but nothing is ever enough, officials say — and Democrats' threats of contempt meant these talks can't continue.

Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said after the Oversight Committee contempt vote made no sense.

"The committee's attempt to define the Department of Justice's good-faith cooperation as 'contempt' defies logic," she said. "Today's action by Chairman Cummings and his committee undermines Congress's credibility with the American people."

The Justice Department has provided Congress with tens of thousands of documents and access to witnesses on the census matter, Kupec said, over months of prior negotiations.

Cummings and the Democrats blame Barr, Ross and the administration for what they've called an effort to "stonewall" their investigation.

Critics argue that Trump's administration wants to use a question about citizenship on the 2020 census to suppress some responses, including those of Latinos, and Democrats say they want unredacted communications to see how the question was discussed inside the government.

"The census is critical to our democracy and our constituents," Cummings said. "We must protect the integrity of the Census, and we must stand up for Congress' authority under the Constitution to conduct meaningful oversight.

The action in the committee on Wednesday followed a vote by the full House on Tuesday authorizing chairmen such as Cummings to file civil contempt lawsuits in order to try to obtain testimony or evidence.

That's what may happen now following the oversight committee session on Wednesday: Cummings, with the assent of the House leadership, could file suit and ask a judge to order Barr and Ross to provide the census materials he wants.

Republicans have criticized Democrats' litigation strategy as a waste of taxpayer dollars given the court costs involved and also as a dangerous road for the House. If members of Congress file suit but lose, Republicans warn, they could harm the oversight powers of the House over the long term.

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