Democrat Chairman of House Oversight Committee and Wife Accused of Massive Pay-to-Play Scandal

[Swordsmyth]

A charity run by Maya Rockeymoore, the wife of Rep. Elijah Cummings, received millions from special interest groups and corporations that had business before her husband’s committee.

"A charity run by the wife of Rep. Elijah Cummings received millions from special interest groups and corporations that had business before her husband’s committee" 🤔🧐https://t.co/YNRbDkrMG3
— Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) May 21, 2019 (https://twitter.com/Surabees/status/1130831987919523841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
The Washington Examiner (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/top-democrat-elijah-cummings-wife-may-have-gained-illegal-private-benefit-from-his-committee-activities) reported:













Cummings, 68, a Maryland Democrat, is chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. His wife, Maya Rockeymoore, 48, is the chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party and briefly ran in the state’s gubernatorial race last year. The couple married in 2008. Cummings was once heavily in debt — in part due to hefty child support payments to his first wife and two other women he had children with — but his financial situation has improved considerably over the past decade.
Rockeymoore runs two entities, a nonprofit group called the Center for Global Policy Solutions and a for-profit consulting firm called Global Policy Solutions, LLC, whose operations appear to have overlapped, according to the IRS complaint filed by watchdog group the National Legal and Policy Center on Monday. The complaint states that the arrangement may have been used to derive “illegal private benefit.”
Global Policy Solutions received more than $6.2 million in grants between 2013 and 2016, according to tax records. Several of the nonprofit group’s financial backers — which included Google, J.P Morgan and Prudential — have business interests before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Cummings has served as Democratic chairman of the committee since January and previously served as ranking member.





https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/developing-democrat-chairman-of-house-oversight-committee-and-wife-accused-of-massive-pay-to-play-scandal/

[ATruepatriot]

Someone here mentioned they wished for this earlier. I hope it is just the first of many to come. :)

[Schifference]

I know nothing about this. I know nothing about Trumps business's. The topic of this thread seems pretty bad. What about Trump wanting to stay at one of his own resorts? Is one illegal? Are both illegal?

[ATruepatriot]

I know nothing about this. I know nothing about Trumps business's. The topic of this thread seems pretty bad. What about Trump wanting to stay at one of his own resorts? Is one illegal? Are both illegal?

I think for me, as they play innocent and clean as they go after Trump they forget they have their own skeletons to worry about.

[oyarde]

Someone here mentioned they wished for this earlier. I hope it is just the first of many to come. :)

That was me .

[oyarde]

Someone here mentioned they wished for this earlier. I hope it is just the first of many to come. :)

That was me . I know a scumbag when I hear one .

[Anti Globalist]

Not surprising that a Democrat would do this. They are the party of beta males.

[enhanced_deficit]

'Drain the swamp' has finally started? About time.
Dems were getting bit too bouncy since last poll showing them beating MAGA in 2020 was leaked by Fauxnews.


This could get media busy for a while, especially once similar leaks about Qatari gov blockade and financial dealings, China trademarks/ZTE jobs policy and $82 Mil made by MAGA's anti-nepotism leadership team while handling gov businesss in White House started.


Kushner, Ivanka Trump made at least $82 million in outside income while serving in White House (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?527606-Kushner-Ivanka-Trump-made-at-least-82-million-in-outside-income-while-serving-in-White-House&)

[Schifference]

This is probably due to the fact that he is a privileged old white straight guy.

[ATruepatriot]

That was me .

That's right, well here you go. Right on cue. :)

[ATruepatriot]

That was me . I know a scumbag when I hear one .

Out of everyone up there I dislike him the most. He is just out right ignorant on purpose.

[oyarde]

The real question is when she cannot keep him up anymore on the corruption monies will they jail him for not paying his child support ?

[oyarde]

Oh , yeah , for anyone not aware this is the guy demanding trumps financials from before he was elected . LOL

[ATruepatriot]

Oh , yeah , for anyone not aware this is the guy demanding trumps financials from before he was elected . LOL

Yep. Like I say they forget too quick they have their own problems. I hope they continue and check off the list you made.

[Swordsmyth]

The wife of House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars from her charity into her for-profit organization, potentially deriving an "illegal private benefit" for the Washington power couple, reports the Daily Caller (https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/05/elijah-cummingss-wife-charity/)'s Andrew Kerr.
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The previously undisclosed cost-sharing arrangement between the two entities controlled by Maya Rockeymoore Cummings was detailed in audited statements obtained by Kerr (https://www.scribd.com/document/412505465/CGPS-2015-Audited-Financial-Statements#from_embed).

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 (https://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/CGPS-2014-Audited-Financial-Statements.pdf) covering those years (https://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/CGPS-2015-Audited-Financial-Statements.pdf). 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. -Daily Caller (https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/05/elijah-cummingss-wife-charity/)


"It’s self-dealing. It’s taking the charity’s resources and turning them into personal profits," according to Tom Anderson in a statement to the Caller. Anderson is an investigator with the National Legal and Policy Center (NPLC), who added "IRS law doesn’t allow a charity for this purpose. This isn’t for the public interest, this is for her personal interest. You can’t do that."

Charity watchdogs say this raises red flags.

Here's the relevant portion of the charity's financials below:https://t.co/oWGZQ47YkX pic.twitter.com/qYYxlpUvIL (https://t.co/qYYxlpUvIL)
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) June 6, 2019 (https://twitter.com/AndrewKerrNC/status/1136443422770900992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) What's more, according to a May 20 report in the Washington Examiner (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/top-democrat-elijah-cummings-wife-may-have-gained-illegal-private-benefit-from-his-committee-activities), companies which fund Cummings's charity have interests before her husband's Congressional committee.


The NPLC filed a complaint with the IRS in May, claiming that Rockeymoore Cummings's charity and LLC are potentially being used by companies to buy favorable treatment with Cummings.
"The problem is there are millions of dollars coming into these entities from corporations and special interests with business before Elijah Cummings, and any time you have that, every rule has to be followed or else it opens the door for massive corruption," said Anderson in a previous statement to the Caller.
Others have questioned why Rockeymoore Cummings's private company is charging a 5% management fee to her charity on top of an existing cost-sharing agreement.

Charity Watch President Daniel Borochoff said the funds flowing from Rockeymoore Cummings’s charity from the 5% management fee is problematic given her husband’s regulatory authority over the business interests funding her charity.
“That connection could be made,” Borochoff said. “All the more reason to get rid of that 5% arrangement.”
“My advice to them: get rid of the percentage arrangement and pay the LLC for whatever work its performing, but also to do whatever it can to separate the for-profit from the nonprofit,” he added. -Daily Caller (https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/05/elijah-cummingss-wife-charity/)
And while cost-sharing agreements between charities and other entities may be common, according to Chicago attorney Sally Wagenmaker, the management fee Cummings is charging her own charity "raises a potential red flag."
The president of conservative watchdog group Capital Research Center agrees, adding "It’s a red flag for a powerful member like Elijah Cummings to have a family member receiving money from entities with issues before his powerful committee."

I wonder why he isn’t investigating this???

Elijah Cummings’s Wife Used Her Charity To Enrich Her For-Profit Company, Documents Show | The Daily Caller https://t.co/zLbhwhrgSJ
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 6, 2019 (https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1136545809338515456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)



https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-06/cummings-wife-funneled-money-charity-profit-company-financials-reveal

[Swordsmyth]

Someone here mentioned they wished for this earlier. I hope it is just the first of many to come. :)

A watchdog group is asking the Maryland attorney general to investigate whether Rep. Elijah Cummings and his wife used a charity for improper self-enrichment, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by the Washington Examiner.
The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, which leans conservative, filed the complaint on Monday against the Center for Global Policy Solutions, a nonprofit organization founded by Cummings’ wife, Maya Rockeymoore.
The complaint asked Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh to investigate the financial relationship between the Center for Global Policy Solutions and Rockeymoore’s for-profit consulting firm, Global Policy Solutions LLC.

The similarly named entities shared an address, phone number, projects, funding sources, and had a cost-sharing arrangement that raises questions about a “potentially improper financial benefit to Ms. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings and her husband, Representative Elijah Cummings,” the complaint asserts.
“This is a unique situation that warrants necessary oversight to maintain public confidence in nonprofit donations,” said FACT’s executive director Kendra Arnold in a letter to Frosh.

More at: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/charity-run-by-wife-of-elijah-cummings-incurs-new-ethics-complaint