The Washington Examiner reported yesterday that an IRS complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center alleges that "a charity run by the wife of Rep. Elijah Cummings received millions from special interest groups and corporations that had business before her husband's committee and could have been used illegally." Cummings is the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Rockeymoore runs two entities, a nonprofit group called the Center for Global Policy Solutions and a for-profit consulting firm called Global Policy Solutions, LLC, whose operations appear to have overlapped, according to the IRS complaint filed by watchdog group the National Legal and Policy Center on Monday.
Cummings has served as Democratic chairman of the committee since January and previously served as ranking member.
"When a powerful chairman of a committee of the House of Representatives has a wife that is bringing in money from entities with interests before his Committee and she is not providing the transparency mandated by the IRS, there's a serious problem," said Tom Anderson, director of the National Legal and Policy Center's Government Integrity Project.
"The potential for corruption in this situation is simply off the charts and can't be understated." Anderson is calling on Cummings and his wife to provide the public with the legally mandated documents all charities must disclose.
Neither Cummings nor his wife chose to speak with the Washington Examiner, but Rockeymore did release a statement yesterday calling the allegations an attempt to silence her and her husband.
As chairman of the House Oversight committee, Elijah Cummings has been leading the effort to obtain Trump's tax returns and financial records, but is apparently unwilling to live up to his own alleged standard of transparency.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/irs-complaint-wife-of-elijah-cummings-may-have-received-illegal-benefits-from-his-committee-activities/
Rockeymoore runs two entities, a nonprofit group called the Center for Global Policy Solutions and a for-profit consulting firm called Global Policy Solutions, LLC, whose operations appear to have overlapped, according to the IRS complaint filed by watchdog group the National Legal and Policy Center on Monday.
Cummings has served as Democratic chairman of the committee since January and previously served as ranking member.
"When a powerful chairman of a committee of the House of Representatives has a wife that is bringing in money from entities with interests before his Committee and she is not providing the transparency mandated by the IRS, there's a serious problem," said Tom Anderson, director of the National Legal and Policy Center's Government Integrity Project.
"The potential for corruption in this situation is simply off the charts and can't be understated." Anderson is calling on Cummings and his wife to provide the public with the legally mandated documents all charities must disclose.
Neither Cummings nor his wife chose to speak with the Washington Examiner, but Rockeymore did release a statement yesterday calling the allegations an attempt to silence her and her husband.
As chairman of the House Oversight committee, Elijah Cummings has been leading the effort to obtain Trump's tax returns and financial records, but is apparently unwilling to live up to his own alleged standard of transparency.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/irs-complaint-wife-of-elijah-cummings-may-have-received-illegal-benefits-from-his-committee-activities/
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