Newly Released IRS Memo Details Mysterious End To Clinton Foundation Probe

The Integral Revenue Service (IRS) abruptly shuttered its probe into the Clinton Foundation during President Donald Trump’s first term in office, according to internal IRS documents and communications obtained by Just The News.

John Moynihan, a retired Drug Enforcement Agency financial crimes analyst, and Larry Doyle, a corporate tax compliance expert, had submitted extensive documentation on the case to the IRS, Just The News reported. The whistleblowers allege that the Clinton Foundation mishandled funds, took funds that were intended for charitable purposes for personal use and possibly engaged in quid pro quo arrangements.

“Can’t talk about the CF,” one memo states in detailing how IRS agents suddenly ended contact with two whistleblowers they had been working with for weeks.

Moynihan and Doyle are currently pursuing two separate whistleblower cases involving the Clinton Foundation in U.S. Tax Court, one of which is tentatively scheduled for trial on December 1. That case involves references to documents from an IRS criminal investigations division investigation.

Internal memos show that the whistleblowers submitted multiple IRS Form 211“Applications for Award for Original Information,” which could have entitled them to a financial reward if the government was able to recoup taxpayer funds if the information they shared with the agency led to a criminal conviction.

According to memos and internal communications reviewed by Just The News, the IRS held several meetings with the whistleblowers between January and April 2019. “The IRS appears to have moved from a serious initial interest in pursuing the Clinton Foundation’s potential wrongdoing to slamming on the brakes, allegedly claiming that such an inquiry couldn’t and wouldn’t be launched after all,” Just The News reported.

All investigative activity into the foundation had indeed been halted by July 2019.

Moynihan and Doyle filed applications for awards for original information with the IRS related to five of the non-profits listed in information they presented to the agency. The whistleblowers also filed an application for an award for original information with the IRS related to the Clinton Foundation itself in early March 2019

Both men took notes during their meetings with the IRS, which focused largely on the Clinton Foundation (CF) and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (“CHAI”).

Emails show that an IRS office in New Jersey initially took serious interest in the whistleblower allegations about the Clinton Foundation. Meeting notes repeatedly indicate that the IRS wanted to formalize a relationship with them as “Informants / Whistleblowers” or as “Cooperating Witnesses / Whistleblowers.”

One particularly damning note claims that an IRS investigator reviewed the documents relating to the Clinton Foundation and concluded that “the entire enterprise is a fraud.”

Agents soon did a 180, telling the whistleblowers that “we can’t talk about the CF.”

Emails reviewed by Just The News further suggested that the Clinton Foundation was likely being looked into by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas, and federal investigators operating out of field offices in Dallas and Newark in 2019.

Brian Della Rocca, a lawyer for the whistleblowers, told Just the Newsthat “unfortunately, we find ourselves in Tax Court fighting the Whistleblower Office again.”

“This time, we know for a fact that an investigation was started into the claims because it was done before the claims were filed. The Whistleblowers filed the claims at the behest of the IRS and, once received by the Whistleblower Office, the claims were shut down,” the lawyer for the whistleblowers said. “We are beyond frustrated.

The latest report comes after FBI Director Kash Patel declassified a 2017 memo that outlines significan obstruction senior FBI agents in three separate field offices faced from their superiors when investigating whether Hillary Clinton engaged in a pay-to-play corruption scheme involving her family foundation.

The Clinton Foundation has long denied any wrongdoing and claims the investigations into their work are politically motivated.