https://themessenger.com/politics/why-h ... oe-citizenold salt wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2023 12:13 amWas Rettig even in the loop ? He was run out of office over other issues.a fan wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2023 12:11 amYou're just not listening. Old Salt: Rettig can tell you what they had on Hunter. He was there from 2018 to late 2022.
Yet neither you nor the House Republicans want to ask him questions, and to ask what he had, and what his opinion was.
Either you guys aren't all that bright (I don't believe that for a second).....or you REALLY don't want to hear what the man has to say.
If there's REALLY a cover up? Ask Rettig about what he had. Ask Barr what was in that Aug 2022 report. And ask Wray what he had.
You're doing NONE of these things. Its insane. Its like having Lee Oswald alive, and just letting him go on vacation without asking him a question or two.
During a 2021 hearing, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden sought an explanation from then-IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig about why “tens of thousands of high-flyers got away with shirking their duty” to pay taxes and why so few violators were prosecuted.
“When we asked about the legal consequences, your office replied in a May 25th letter that the IRS asked the Department of Justice to charge 200 taxpayers for failing to file a return between 2014 and 2020,” Wyden, D-Ore., told Rettig. “Everybody else appears to have just gotten away with not paying the taxes that they owed.”
Rettig replied that he shared the senator’s concerns.
“The reference that you are referring to is under 7203, which is a misdemeanor for a failure to file an income tax return,” Rettig said, naming the statute that Hunter Biden is now expected to admit to violating.
“The system is not designed to effectively address misdemeanors,” Rettig explained. “We have limited resources in our Criminal Investigation function. Decisions have to be made based on resources.”
It is the Justice Department’s decision whether to indict misdemeanor tax cases, Rettig added, and “if they bring those cases, in the majority of those cases, the individual does not receive a period of incarceration.”