The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has moved to dismiss a case centering on the Clinton Foundation, marking the latest twist in a years-long legal saga.
As reported by Just the News, the IRS says the two plaintiffs, who are fighting to receive a monetary award for whistleblowers, lack standing.
The IRS argues that the case should not move forward to a trial tentatively scheduled on December 1.
Retired federal agent John Moynihan and private fraud expert Larry Doyle have alleged for years that the Clinton Foundation engaged in pay-to-play politics with foreign donors.
“Not surprising that the IRS would seek to dismiss our case in this fashion simply because that is the same tactic the IRS deployed in our initial case, ongoing now almost 6 years in US Tax Court and growing more serious every day,” Doyle told Just The News.
In 2018, Doyle and Moynihan appeared before Congress to share their findings.
However, they refused to hand over their 6,000-page evidence dump to the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee.
The refusal provoked a clash with then-Chairman Mark Meadows.
An initial IRS review found that their allegations of wrongdoing were not credible.
However, a U.S. Tax Court judge found in 2020 that the IRS had “abused its discretion” when it rejected their whistleblower complaint, and the judge allowed it to proceed.
In a motion last week, the IRS argued the case should be dismissed on procedural grounds.
“In this case, the Whistleblower Office denied petitioners’ claims because the petitioners’ claims were never considered in an IRS action,” the IRS motion said.
“Here, the Whistleblower Office forwarded petitioners’ claims to a classifier.
“Following the classifiers’ preliminary review, the Classifier declined to forward petitioners’ claims to exam and recommended that it be forwarded to the CI [criminal investigation] division.”
“The IRS did not proceed with any potential action when it investigated petitioners’ claims,” the IRS added.
The IRS’s opposition may come as a surprise to many, especially as Trump’s FBI continues to shed light on an effort by Obama officials to block investigations into the Clinton Foundation.
Newly declassified records shared by FBI director Kash Patel provide more detail on the cover-up, which involved high-level figures known to be anti-Trump, like former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
In February 2016, McCabe ordered that “no overt investigative steps” be taken concerning the Clinton Foundation without his approval, according to an internal FBI work document.
Then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates later instructed a prosecutor’s office in Arkansas to “shut it down.”
The obstruction was previously noted by Former Special Counsel John Durham in his lengthy 2023 report.
The report delved into the FBI’s disparate treatment of Trump and Hillary Clinton as they battled for the White House in 2016.
Even as the FBI and DOJ rushed to investigate Trump over illusory Russia ties, top officials “placed restrictions” on scrutinizing the Clinton Foundation, “such that essentially no investigative activities occurred for months,” Durham found.
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