Austan Goolsbee was one of Obama’s henchmen who was on the Council of Economic Advisers. Goolsbee was also the 26th Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. He later left the sinking Obama regime and became professor at The University of Chicago. Turns out Austan Goolsbee ‘allegedly’ gained unauthorized access to the Koch brother’s tax returns and disclosed information about them to the liberal press. If you never heard about this story before, neither did I until tonight. The corrupt liberal media did a good job of covering this up until now. According to the Free Beacon, the Obama regime must acknowledge the existence of an independent investigation into Austan Goolsbee’s alleged unauthorized access to the Koch brother’s tax returns. Add yet another scandal to the corrupt Obama regime that the press wouldn’t touch.
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A federal judge ruled the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) must disclose to watchdog group Cause of Action whether records of an investigation exist.
Cause of Action filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit after TIGTA refused to confirm or deny the existence of the investigation in what is commonly known as a “Glomar response.”
“The court has ruled that the federal government cannot hide behind confidentiality laws to prevent Americans from knowing if our President has gained unauthorized access to their tax information,” Cause of Action executive director Dan Epstein said in a statement Tuesday. “This is a decisive win for all Americans and for government transparency and accountability.”
Former White House Council of Economic Advisers chairman Austan Goolsbee sparked a mini-scandal in 2010 when he told reporters during a background press briefing that Koch Industries—the company of libertarian philanthropists Charles and David Koch—paid no income taxes.
Conservative lawmakers and activists said Goolsbee’s statements not only unfairly singled out the president’s political opponents but also used confidential IRS documents to do so.
TIGTA announced in response to a letter from six Republican senators that it was launching an investigation into Goolsbee’s comments and whether he violated the law. However, the report was never released to the senators or the public.