Elijah Cummings Democrat Icon Of Corruption.
Elijah Cummings’s Wife Used Her Charity To Pay Her For-Profit Company, Documents Show
House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings’s wife has funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars from her charity to her private for-profit organization, according to a previously undisclosed cost-sharing arrangement that multiple experts said raises red flags.
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings’s charity, the Center for Global Policy Solutions (CGPS), paid her for-profit venture, Global Policy Solutions LLC, over $250,000 in “management fees” between 2013 and 2015, according to the charity’s audited financial statements covering those years. The management fees were paid in addition to a cost-sharing agreement where the charity pays for its share of equipment, personnel and other expenditures.
Rockeymoore Cummings’s charity is funded by companies with interests before her husband’s congressional committee.
“It’s self-dealing. It’s taking the charity’s resources and turning them into personal profits,” National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) investigator Tom Anderson told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “IRS law doesn’t allow a charity for this purpose.
Corruption: New IRS emails released by a congressional panel show staff working for the Democratic ranking member communicated with the IRS multiple times in 2012 and 2013 about a voter-fraud prevention group.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said on CNN's "State of the Union" last year, "Based upon everything I've seen, the case is solved. And if it were me, I would wrap this case up and move on, to be frank with you."
Of course he wanted to move on, for he had been working hand in glove with the IRS to target conservative groups and wanted the fact to remain a secret.
On Feb. 6, in a subcommittee hearing that heard the testimony of Catherine Engelbrecht — founder of True the Vote, who was targeted by the IRS, FBI and other federal agencies — Cummings vehemently denied having any contact or coordination in targeting True the Vote.
Responding, attorney Cleta Mitchell, who is representing True the Vote, indicated that staff on the committee had been involved in communication with the IRS. In short, Cummings was not telling the truth.
After the hearing, Engelbrecht filed a formal ethics complaint accusing the Maryland Democrat of trying to intimidate her by causing the targeting.
Cummings on three separate occasions had sent letters with his title on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee stating that he had concerns and that True the Vote should be investigated.
Emails released by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, a California Republican, show that Cummings' Democratic staff had requested information from the IRS' tax-exempt division, the one headed by Lois Lerner, on True the Vote, a conservative group that monitors polling places for voter fraud and supports the use of voter IDs, something Cummings opposes. "The IRS and the Oversight Minority made numerous requests for virtually identical information from True the Vote, raising concerns that the IRS improperly shared protected taxpayer information with Rep. Cummings' staff," the Oversight panel said in a statement.
According to Issa, Cummings and his staff sought "copies of all training materials used for volunteers, affiliates or other entities" from True the Vote.
Five days later, the group received an almost identical request from the IRS for (1) "a copy of (True the Vote's) volunteer registration form," (2) "the process you use to assign volunteers," (3) "how you keep your volunteers in teams" and (4) "how your volunteers are deployed ... following the training they receive by you."
As Townhall.com reports, the first contact between the IRS and Cummings' staffers about True the Vote happened in August 2012.
On Jan. 25, 2013, Cummings' staff asked for more information from the IRS about the group.
Three days after that, Lerner wrote an email to her deputy, Holly Paz, asking, "Did we find anything?"
Paz responded by saying not yet, to which Lerner replied, "Thanks, check tomorrow please."
On Jan. 31, Paz sent True the Vote's 990 forms to Cummings' staff.
"Although you have previously denied that your staff made inquiries to the IRS about conservative organization True the Vote that may have led to additional agency scrutiny, communication records between your staff and IRS officials — which you did not disclose to majority members or staff — indicates otherwise," states a letter to Cummings from Issa and five other subcommittee chairmen.
After Engelbrecht formed her group and sought tax-exempt status, she and her family, which previously had no contact with any government agency of any kind, were buried by an alphabet soup of government harassers, including the ATF, OSHA and the IRS that Cummings was coordinating with.
"This is what the beginning of tyranny looks like," Engelbrecht told Breitbart.com.
Indeed it is. Elijah Cummings has a lot of explaining to do.
House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) released a report
implicating Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) in colluding with the IRS and Lois Lerner against the nonpartisan voters rights group “True the Vote.”
Catherine Engelbrecht, the founder of “True the Vote,” testified before Congress in February.
She was targeted by FBI, IRS, ATF, and OSHA after she filed for tax exempt status for her voters rights group.
- The IRS and the Oversight Minority made numerous requests for virtually identical information from True the Vote, raising concerns that the IRS improperly shared protected taxpayer information with Rep. Cummings’ staff.
- Five days after Cummings contacted True the Vote seeking “copies of all training materials used for volunteers, affiliates, or other entities,” the IRS sent True the Vote a letter requesting True the Vote provide “a copy of [True the Vote’s] volunteer registration form,” “…the process you use to assign volunteers,” “how you keep your volunteers in teams,” and “how your volunteers are deployed … following the training they receive by you.”
- On or before January 25, 2013, Cummings’ staff requested more information from the IRS about True the Vote. The head of the IRS Legislative Affairs office e-mailed several IRS officials, including former Exempt Organizations Director Lois Lerner, that “House Oversight Committee Minority staff” sought information about True the Vote. On Monday, January 28, Lerner wrote to her deputy Holly Paz: “Did we find anything?” When Paz informed her minutes later that she had not heard back about True the Vote’s information, Lerner replied: “thanks – check tomorrow please.”
- On January 31, 2013, Paz attached True the Vote’s form 990s, which she authorized the IRS to share with the Minority staff. Neither Cummings nor the IRS shared these requested documents with the Oversight Majority. None of the Minority’s communications about True the Vote with the IRS were shared with the Committee Majority even though Ranking Member Cummings frequently complains about the Committee Majority contacting individuals on official matters without the involvement of Minority staff.
Cummings denied that his staff, “might have been involved in putting True the Vote on the radar screen of some of these Federal agencies” at a February 6, 2014,
Subcommittee hearing:
Elijah Cummings is a corrupt liar.
Elijah Cummings Wife Hiding Millions Given In Potential Bribes
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings is not willing to reveal the financial documents for her non profit group the Center for Global Policy Solutions.
And the most concerning part about that is that many of the groups and people that have given donations have business before the committee her husband chairs.
At least three different groups have requested the forms, and to each, Rockeymoore Cummings has refused, even when told that the law requires it.
“Wow. That’s illegal,” Sally Wagenmaker, a Chicago attorney who specializes in nonprofit tax law, told TheDCNF. “It’s interesting and sad. You have the right to get them. The organization absolutely is required to provide the information, so to not do so would appear to be flaunting the law.”
“As a family member of an elected official, we’d expect high-road, integrity and compliance. If anyone should be responding promptly, it should be her. He should be above approach.”
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Not one Tea Party group was granted tax exempt status
for a period of 27 months before the election while numerous progressive groups were granted the privilege by the IRS.
For Twenty-Seven months the Obama IRS refused to approve any Tea Party applications for tax-exempt status.
At the same time the Obama IRS approved dozens of progressive applications.
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President Donald Trump on in July 2019 exposed Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) Saturday morning, calling his district “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” and accusing him of corruption.
Once again attacking a Democratic lawmaker of color, Trump tweeted, “Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA.”
"Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!”
Rep. Elijah Cummings is a Despicable Human Being
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) looked the
Brian Terry family in the eye and assured them justice;
he lied to a grieving family. Upon his expression of sincerity, he ran interference for the Obama administration. He’s done the same thing to the
families of the Benghazi attack victims.
All in the Family: Elijah Cummings and Big Pharma
The National and Legal Policy Center (NLPC)
filed
the complaint on May 20, noting that a charity and a for-profit
consulting group run by Maya Rockeymoore Cummings have each received
millions of dollars over the years from the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation. This foundation, created by the founder of Johnson &
Johnson, is not officially affiliated with the pharmaceutical giant, but
the two hold close ties. The foundation is a major shareholder in
Johnson & Johnson, for example.
It does not take a Sherlock Holmes to spot the reasons to fear political
corruption may be at play here. Elijah Cummings chairs a committee that
is
investigating the high prices of pharmaceutical drugs.
Johnson & Johnson has been hit by a rash of
lawsuits over allegations that it was a major player in exacerbating the opioid epidemic that has ravaged America. The company
reported
in April that its first-quarter earnings for 2019 had fallen by 14% in
large part due to the high legal costs involved in battling these suits.
It can use all the friends in high places it can find.
“When a powerful chairman of a committee of the House of
Representatives has a wife that is bringing in money from entities with
interests before his Committee and she is not providing the transparency
mandated by the IRS, there’s a serious problem,” Tom Anderson, director
of the NLPC,
told the
Washington Examiner. “The potential for corruption in this situation is simply off the charts and can’t be understated.”
A look into examples of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s
financial largesse to Mrs. Cummings’ organizations does nothing to dim
suspicion. Her charity and for-profit business have received $5.2
million and $5.5 million respectively, from the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation.
In Sept. 2016, the foundation announced it was awarding a
$1.5 million grant to the nonprofit run by Rockeymoore Cummings, The
Center For Global Policy Solutions, and its Allies for Reaching
Community Health Equity program.
The
Examiner reported that Rockeymoore Cummings’ consulting
firm received a $1 million federal General Services Administration
grant in 2017 for a “Leadership for Healthy Communities” project to
fight childhood obesity. As this grant was awarded, her nonprofit group
claims to have “served as the national program office for Leadership for Healthy Communities.”
The IRS complaint filing states that this highlights how both the
consulting business and nonprofit organization “appear to operate almost
as a single entity, allowing for an illegal private benefit for Maya
Rockeymoore Cummings and her husband.”
“The circumstances of this anti-obesity campaign prompt the question
of whether its organizers are getting fat off the grants,” the NLRC
acidly wrote in its filing.
Rockeymoore Cummings declares on her nonprofit’s website that the center
“equips leaders and organizations with the tools to effect change,
driving society toward inclusion.” This hazy undertaking apparently
takes multiple millions of Big Pharma-tied funding to achieve.
Meanwhile, her husband just so happens to chair a powerful congressional
committee that has government oversight of the pharmaceutical industry.
Some would find this alarming. For denizens of the Swamp, however, it’s
just another day at the office.
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Editor Note:
Elijah Cummings was a swamp predator. He and his wife operated a
quid pro quo operation that made millions by preying on the public via Elijah Cummings corruption in congress.
Elijah Cummings legacy will be his corruption while in congress.
