Just a few weeks after Special Counsel John Durham revealed significant failures to investigate allegations against Hillary Clinton's family charity, a U.S. Tax Court judge has once again breathed new life into a years-long whistleblower case alleging IRS improprieties involving the controversial Clinton Foundation.
U.S. Tax Court Judge David Gustafson has already once before denied an IRS request to dismiss the whistleblower case, first brought in 2017.
Gustafson postponed ruling on those motions, instead asking for new arguments in light of three recent precedent-setting court rulings, once again frustrating IRS efforts to make the case go away.
Monday's ruling adds new intrigue in a case that first surfaced nearly five years ago when Doyle and Moynihan, two respected forensic financial investigators, revealed the existence of their 2017 IRS whistleblower complaint against the foundation during a congressional hearing.
The foundation should've registered under FARA. Ultimately, the foundation and its auditors conceded in formal submissions that it did operate as a agent, therefore the foundation is not entitled to its 501c3 tax-exempt privileges as outlined in IRS 1702.".
In October 2020, Gustafson first allowed the whistleblower case to proceed, rejecting an IRS motion for summary judgement.
Months later, the judge suggested the IRS whistleblower office may have evidence it had not disclosed to the court in the case.
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