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| IRS began criminal probe into Clinton Foundation in 2019 but then suddenly stopped, memos show | |
| 2025-08-23 | |
Years after the FBI was forced to shut down multiple corruption probes of Bill and Hillary Clinton's charity, the IRS under President Donald Trump began a criminal tax investigation into the Clinton Foundation and its dealings with other players on the global charity stage, but then abruptly stopped working with whistleblowers in spring 2019, according to IRS memos and internal emails reviewed by Just the News. "Can’t talk about the CF," a memo states in recounting how IRS agents suddenly cut off contact with two whistleblowers they had been working with for weeks. One of the whistleblowers was a decorated former federal money laundering analyst who had testified before Congress about issues like terrorism financing. The documents, released under the Freedom of Information Act, add a new body of evidence about the federal government's concerns about the former first family's famous global charity as well as a persistent narrative of federal agents being thwarted in their pursuit of investigations tied to major Democratic Party figures. John Moynihan, a retired Drug Enforcement Agency financial crimes analyst, and Larry Doyle, a corporate tax compliance expert, had spent years researching the Clinton Foundation, testifying to Congress about it and providing the IRS with evidence of alleged financial wrongdoing by the Clinton Foundation. THE WHISTLEBLOWERS' CASES Moynihan and Doyle are currently pursuing two separate whistleblower cases involving the Clinton Foundation in U.S. Tax Court, one of which is tentatively slated for trial on Dec. 1. That case includes references to documents from an IRS criminal investigations division investigation. The memos show the duo submitted multiple IRS Form 211 “Applications for Award for Original Information” — which could have given them a financial reward if taxpayer funds were recovered as a result of what they had unearthed and shared with the IRS about the Clinton Foundation. A Just the News review of related notes and internal IRS emails shows several meetings between the whistleblowers and the IRS 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. All investigative activity had petered out by July 2019. The whistleblowers filed applications for awards for original information with the IRS related to five of the non-profits listed in information they presented to IRS agents -- called a "whiteboard chart" -- in mid-February 2019. 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. The whistleblowers then filed new applications for awards for original information with the IRS related to five of the non-profits on the whiteboard chart in early June 2019. The whistleblowers took notes of their half-dozen meetings with IRS criminal investigators with meeting dates ranging from late January to mid-April 2019. The notes focused in large part on the Clinton Foundation (“CF”) as well as on the Clinton Health Access Initiative (“CHAI”). | |
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