A group of former officials with the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice is asking a federal judge to scrutinize a controversial deal that granted President Donald Trump and his family sweeping immunity from past tax audits.
They alleged that the deal to resolve Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax documents in exchange for immunity from past audits was “unprecedented and breathtakingly improper.”
The slush fund did. Not sure if the immunity part did.
Dammit, you’re right. Federal judge ruled that the two parties in the suit were not separate entities, but did not nullify any portion of the settlement.
Yes it did. It all goes away, and the lawyers may lose their licenses. There is no settlement, because there was no case, and lawyers are likely to be sanctioned over it, and possibly lose their licenses (they won’t, but they’ll sweat it out for a while).
The slush fund and the immunity deal are officially dead. Now we should investigate how this all happened, who made the decision to actually attempt this ridiculous operation, and put them in prison.
The ruling explicitly says that the settlement never had any legal standing. There is nothing to nullify.
Grrr reporting on this is all over the place.