How Trump’s Justice Dept. Derailed an Investigation of a Major Company
How Trump’s Justice Dept. Derailed an Investigation of a Major Company
The industrial giant Caterpillar hired William Barr and other lawyers to defuse a federal criminal investigation of alleged tax dodges.
Wouldn't it have been easier for NYTimes to use in the title: "Caterpillar" instead of: "a Major Company" ?
I don't understand that was left out of the title. It's almost a form of obfuscation that shields said company.
I think because this is more about exposing corruption in the DoJ than an expose about Caterpillar. Not mentioning the company in the headline can inform you that the heart of the article is the DoJ so that you’re coming into it with the right context.
Can’t get clicks without bait. Next they’ll be adding “You’ll never believe who it is!”
I found the most moral use of AI using Artifact as my news app. There is a feature where you can "Mark as clickbait" an article's title and it reads the article to generate a new title that actually is relevant to the content of the article. I think the devs have stopped development of the app though.
It's as if the entire administration was corrupt.
bUt jOe BiDeN s GeNoSiDe!!!11
Just a major company?
Color me surprised it's just a major company
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In December 2018, a team of federal law enforcement agents flew to Amsterdam to interview a witness in a yearslong criminal investigation into Caterpillar, which had avoided billions of dollars of income taxes by shifting profits to a Swiss subsidiary.
The Internal Revenue Service told the giant industrial company to pay less than a quarter of the back taxes the government once claimed that Caterpillar owed and did not impose any penalties.
“It appears that Caterpillar was given special political treatment that the average U.S. citizen cannot obtain,” Jason LeBeau, one of the agents who worked on the investigation, wrote to the Justice Department’s inspector general late last year.
whistle-blower claim asserting that Caterpillar had fraudulently dodged billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes by improperly parking profits in a small Swiss subsidiary.
And it took particular aim at Mr. LeBeau, saying he had a “basic misunderstanding of the relevant tax rules” and was pursuing a “conspiracy theory.” The attacks were an unusual effort to undermine the credibility of an individual investigator.
Two hours after Mr. Miller sent the email, he got a response: Senior Justice Department officials had decided “that no further action,” including the planned interview, should be taken “until further notice.” (That direction was reported by Reuters in 2020.)
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