The Barack H. Obama Foundation (BHOF) was established in 2008 by Abon’go Malik Obama, the half-brother of the President of the United States. According to Discover the Networks, “Abon’go, a Kenyan-born Muslim, created the foundation in memory of his and President Obama’s biological father.”
In April 2012, Indiana’s news station WTHR conducted a “Tax Loophole” investigation that attracted the attention of millions of Americans. They discovered “a massive tax loophole that provides billions of dollars in tax credits to undocumented workers.”
Although a program known as the Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) was supposed to be “primarily used by undocumented workers to follow the law and file income taxes in the United States” the ongoing IRS scandal linked “ITIN fraud to billions in lost taxpayer dollars” and the IRS was “forced to reform the ITIN program at the start of 2013.”
Didn’t quite happen.
As is the usual scenario in this administration, the IRS pulled another fast one because according to Patrick Howley, the “Internal Revenue Service [has] quietly changed regulations to allow more undocumented immigrants to keep their taxpayer status through a program that is rife with fraud and abuse.” In short, “ensuring that only qualified individuals receive an ITIN” is a dim to non-existent prospect.
In addition, in the IRS ongoing case known as True the Vote (TTV) v. IRS the court “rejected an attempt by the conservative Tea Party group to have the court appoint a forensics expert to find Lois Lerner’s missing emails and documents.” The basis for this decision was the judge’s ruling that no “irreparable harm” had occurred.
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