This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.
How The US Government Is Raiding A Citizen Victim Relief Fund To Pay For General Expenses
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
One of the primary “talking points” used by the Department of Justice to defend its practice of systematically deeming corporate criminals above the law via its used of deferred prosecution agreements, has been an emphasis on how much money it has earned in fines from criminal corporations. These fines were supposed to be distributed to help victimized American citizens. Not any more.
The Wall Street Journal reports that:
WASHINGTON—The government’s just-approved budget deal takes $1.5 billion from a fund for crime victims and uses it instead to help pay for federal spending, drawing on a growing reserve collected from settlements with banks and major corporations.
The unprecedented transfer, part of closed-door negotiations between the Obama administration and congressional leaders, has raised the ire of advocates. They say it violates the integrity of a decades-old program that funds safe havens for domestic violence victims, counseling for abused children and financial aid for murder victims’ families, among other programs.
The administration and Republican congressional leaders averted a partial government shutdown by striking a two-year budget deal approved by Congress last week. As part of the pact the Crime Victims Fund will lose $1.5 billion to the general treasury, Obama administration officials said.
Since the fund’s creation in 1984 by the Victims of Crime Act, it has gathered money from fines imposed on criminals and set it aside to pay for services for crime victims.
But during the Obama administration, as major banks and corporations paid large sums to settle Justice Department investigations, the fund ballooned from about $3 billion to nearly $12 billion at the end of the 2014 budget year, according to the department.
The fund’s growing size has presented policy makers with a dilemma. When the fund began, the government paid out almost every dollar it received. But in 2000, Congress began capping the amount paid each year to ensure a steady stream of money for victims’ services.
From 2000 to 2008, the fund grew from $1 billion to $3 billion. As its balance kept rising, White House accountants were able to use the cash in an accounting move to offset government spending. Now, Congress and the White House have struck a deal to go further, by agreeing to withdraw some 10% of the money to directly fund the government.
Victims’ advocates say the move could set a dangerous precedent and encourage lawmakers to keep dipping into a pot of money intended to help crime victims, not to pay government bills.
Two years ago, the fund distributed about $745 million for victims services. That jumped last year to almost $2.4 billion, most in grants to state and local groups that provide counseling, aid or other services.
The proposed White House budget for fiscal 2016, which started Oct. 1, would give $1 billion to victim-services groups. Budget officials said it was a coincidence that the proposed reduction from last year’s $2.4 billion is about the same as the amount to be transferred out of the fund to general spending.
And once again, the U.S. citizenry gets steamrolled by its own corrupt government.
»
- 8359 reads
- Printer-friendly version
- Send to friend
- advertisements -
Supporting ISIS and Al-Qaeda and other assorted terrorists is very expensive
Is there a fund or program that the government doesn't raid?
The MIC and the banker welfare fund.
DOJ: Dept Of Jokes
The govt will crash on its on weight
Should be Department Of Jewish interests.
So the crime victims fund was ripped off by a bunch of thieves? Well okay then, that makes perfect sense.
Obama will not finish his second term! Current Events Linked to Ancient Biblical Prophecy!
http://motivationdose.com/is-america-babylon/
Something like "embezzeled"?
That's all government departments though. They're all infested with those treacherous rat faced bastards.
Doc, Im confused. Isn't pretty much the entire budget the "MIS and banker welfare fund"? One or both of them get a cut out of almost everything, one way or another.
Sorry, but this is kinda funny. What the fuck does a measly 1.5 billion buy the government nowadays? Hardly seems like an amount they would even bother discussing
I though the same thing when I read 1.5 bill. I think they just do that shit to fuck with people.
"Government" is now completely owned and controlled by private interests, so what do we actually mean by 'government'?. Catherine Austin Fitts has coined it as a "financial coup d'etat" and I think she's dead on.
"Government" is now completely owned and controlled by jewish interests, so what do we actually mean by 'government'?. Catherine Austin Fitts should have coined it as a "jewish coup d'etat" because that is what it truly is.
There. Fixed it for ya.
Given that there are powerful jewish elites and interests, do you actually think that if tommorrow all the jews were gone that this problem of humanity and human nature would be solved? Do you really believe that? That nobody else conspires against good public order?
There was an iPhone App called "Send Me to Heaven" where you threw your phone as high as you could, and it recorded the height and you could share it with your friends in competition. The creator publicly stated it was his intention to destroy as many phones (indirectly) as possible. Funny stuff, and it was taken from the App Store to protect imbeciles from themselves.
Seems to me the .gov is playing "Send Me to Heaven" with this country, but the goal is a downside trip to a hell they are crafting.
http://www.wired.com/2013/09/send-me-to-heaven-app/
Good one RM!
I guess the fund listed in the main article (Crime Victims Fund) is the one they gave $$millions to the Sandy Hoax "parents" from...
New game: "Send Me To Hell." Ya see, you toss your iphone off the rim of the Grand Canyon and the one that goes the furthest...
Off topic question: If the FED is gettiing ready for liftoff in Dec. why is the market in a panic buying frenzy? Should it not be going down? Or is this all a fraud?
Yes, it a fraud, a ponzi, a heaping, steaming pile of elephant shit.
So the question is, do the markte makers now know that in fact they will not raise and are calling the FED's bluff? Or is the FED buying everythign while everyone else sits out?
Yes
there will be no rate hikes. The Fed can't raise rates or they blow themselves up along with the rest of the world-wide derivatives market.
All they can do is jaw-bone and lie and continue to extend and pretend.
They will continue with their "stealth" QE for as long as possible and then they will roll out the next big financial crisis sometime close to the elections to scare everybody and then they will roll out the mother of all QEternity plans that will most likely dwarf all the printing and spending from the previous 8 years combined.
just my humble opinion. I dare them to raise rates in December...I dare them to try it for even 1 fucking month at .25%.
You watch what happens if they do try it. Kaboom! And an immediate roll-back to ZIRP or even NIRP and massive CTRL-P
The tax paying slaves are going to get a nasty shock when they realize the cupboard is bare!
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/10/time-travel-is-no-l...
This is absurd. I'm into all sorts of theries but beforeitsnews is realyl getting desperate now.
Before It's News is almost completely junk. I read it every day though! haha
I like to data-mine sites like that because they usually have about 10% really good alt-stuff that's worth paying attention to.
But other than that it's mostly for info-tainment value like bigfoot stories and shit like that. lol
Corporations are people too. The supreme court said so, and they know everything.
Big deal -$1.5 billion is only 35 gas stations.
2 parties - 1 shit-sandwhich. Take a bite out of crime!!
They must have drained the petty cash fund for hookers, blow and midget tranny porn...
Nothing to see here
Freddie Mac Posts $475M Loss in 3Q; No Dividend Payment -
CONgress is going to be dipping into a lot of pots in the near future.....like YOUR bank account!!
Cock-suckers!
Did the Charleston checks go out yet?
No all those funds were spent glad-handling Obama when he went down to interject himself at the funeral.
Since he likes to take selfies this was the perfect opportunity to take a national selfie.
Can't raid BitCoin. Be your own bank. Be your own retirement savings plan. Anywhere in the world. BitCoin.
"Bu bu but I don't know anything about BitCoin, so I hate it".
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/01/16/the-feds-are-ready-to...
"Corporations must win"
~ Jack Welch
r
'Unions must win'
~ Government
The beast they built is dying, willing to do anything to survive and all for naught.
So crime victims who lose property are "'compensated"' with counseling instead of having their losses recouped? And the money for this counseling comes out of their own pockets via funds recovered from criminals?
But too much money is being recovered from criminals so the government is capping the amount of counseling allowed and awarding the rest of the pot to itself?
Sadly, I think that's preferable to handing out additional well-compensated "jobs" to more sociology majors. Of course I prefer a system where we send all the nazis packing back to Europe where they can counsel and watch and tax each other to their hearts content.
Expect nothing less from the largest banana republic on the planet.
Zero Confidence.
Big Brother is bilking you.
It's a consequence of having a common purse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVfJEYkMWPI
Civil Asset Forfeiture 2.0
Obama's lackies will be raiding much more.
In Chicago, where Obama ewas groomed, they sold off the Chicago skyway and parking meters.
A bankrupt way of thinking.
You wanted Chicago government in DC, you have it.
Thieves will be Thieves!
These parasites can't even be shamed any more. You can cal them low lifes, thieves, parasites, etc and they just smile and steal some more.
No amount of voting or sub committees or demonstrations will ever cure this plague. Only their asses in jail will work. And I seriously doubt they'll go without a little persuasion.
I prefer the Chinese system of justice, a bullet to the back of their heads after a quick trial.
1.5 billion-
They'll piss that away on a new hair salon for Senators or some shit.
Constantly stealing, grabbing, begging, always whining for moar Quatloos.
Over 3 Trillion in tax receipts, still never enough.
This is perhaps The California Con, though I'm sure we neither invented it and are not nearly the only ones doing it. You have a property tax to pay for schools and roads.
Then you steal all the money to use for bullet trains, welfare, and gigantic pensions. "But the kids are suffering, we need a special assessment!" It goes on the ballot, everyone pays more. "But there are too many potholes, we need a special assessment!" It goes on the ballot, everyone pays more. "We have too many special assessments, we need to raise the tax rates!" Everyone pays more. But it never helps. Rinse. Repeat.
Anyone remember the Calif. "offroad vehicle tax" that was supposed to "save the desert"?
As soon as the fund got big enough, it was robbed and never repaid.
How long before they start raiding your IRA's and 401K's? You can't handle your own finances; let us save you from yourselves by replacing those risky investments with perfectly safe government bonds.
Sometimes this all seems like a bad dream. Or a bad movie with no end in sight.
Why are there no "good people" in government?
"These fines were supposed to be distributed to help victimized American citizens."
That's a good one!
As if any of us need any more proof that if a government power CAN be abused, it WILL be abused.
Ever checked where your federal gas tax money goes? Not just to boondoggle "public transportation" projects that have nothing to do with highway travel, but to stuff that doesn't even involve transportation.
The Democrats in New Orleans took all the money dedicated to shoring up their levees and used it to build luxury marinas instead. Then came Katrina. Whoopsie! How many of them were punished? You can count them on the fingers of one ear.