Time: Wed Nov 13 10:24:17 1996
To: Libertarian Students at the University of Arizona <LIBERTARIANS@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: The Kick-Back Racket
Cc:
Bcc:
At 10:06 AM 11/13/96 -0700, you wrote:
>At 09:01 PM 11/12/96 -0700, you wrote:
>> The Kick-Back Racket:
>> Performance Management and
>> Recognition System
>>
>Fascinating, Paul! I really wish this would turn out to be true.
Dear Libertarian Students at UofA:
I submitted a FOIA request to IRS for all
PMRS records, and they responded with a
request for specific years, and with an
admission that some records do not exist,
because the awards were paid in cash.
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Department of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Service
Washington, D.C. 20224
September 12, 1996
Mr. Paul A. Mitchell Person to Contact:
2509 North Campbell - #1776 M. Zolton
Tucson, AZ 85719 Telephone Number:
(202) 622-6250
Refer Reply to:
96-1911
Dear Mr. Mitchell:
This is in reponse to your July 26, 1996, Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) request for all financial records of the
Performance Management and Recognition System (PMRS). Your
request was forwarded to us by the Office of Disclosure Services,
Department of the Treasury, so that we can respond to you
directly. We apologize for the delay in responding.
Unfortunately, your request is not specific enough to allow
us to conduct a search for the records that are of interest to
you. For example, you have not stated the years for which you
are interested in obtaining records. Please be advised that the
PMRS has not existed for the last 3 years. In addition, it is
our understanding that awards made under PMRS took the form of
cash payments or quality step in-grade promotions. Therefore,
the types of financial records associated with awards made under
PMRS did not include the kinds of records mentioned in your
request. It would be helpful if you could be more specific in
descibing the desired records.
Accordingly, you may wish to reformulate your request to
assist us in finding the responsive material. If you decide to
do so, your perfected request will receive our close attention.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Mark L. Zolton
Tax Law Specialist
FOIA Branch
# # #
c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 Tucson [zip code exempt]
ARIZONA REPUBLIC
September 19, 1996
Mark L. Zolton
Tax Law Specialist
FOIA Branch
"Internal Revenue Service"
Washington [zip code exempt]
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Subject: FOIA for PMRS Records
Your Ref. No. 96-1911
Dear Mr. Zolton:
Thank you for your letter to Me, dated September 12, 1996.
In that letter, you say that We failed to state the years for
which We are interested in obtaining records. In answer to that
point: We want records for the years 1776 Anno Domini through
and including 2020 Anno Domini. The latter year (2020) appears
on the IRS assessment records for a client of mine. Under oath,
the IRS agent who signed these records testified that this date
(2020) was not a mistake.
We are desirous of obtaining any and all financial records
associated with the PMRS, including but not limited to the names
of all persons who received any kind of "recognition" from this
system, e.g. the President as mentioned in the Internal Revenue
Manual page in question, employees of the federal government, and
all others, without exception. We presume the IRM reference is
to the President of the United States. Your records should
confirm whether or not any Presidents of the United States have
received any "recognition" from this system, how much, when, and
which ones. See Article II, Section 1, Clause 7.
Thank you very much for your consideration.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
Citizen of Arizona state, federal witness
and Counselor at Law
# # #
c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776
Tucson [zip code exempt]
ARIZONA REPUBLIC
November 5, 1996
Mr. Gerald R. Ryan
Special Assistant
Assistant Chief Counsel
Disclosure Litigation
Department of the Treasury
"Internal Revenue Service"
Washington, D.C.
Subject: FOIA for PMRS records Control Number: 249346-96
Dear Mr. Ryan:
Thank you for your letter to me, dated October 24, 1996.
As you can see from my original FOIA request, dated July 26,
1996, (copy attached), I requested certified copies of the PMRS
records. My FOIA appeal was based, in part, on your
organization's failure to provide certified copies, so as to
render them admissible in a court of law, if necessary.
Secondly, Mr. Mark L. Zolton, Tax Law Specialist in the FOIA
Branch, wrote to me on September 12, 1996, explaining that my
original FOIA request was not specific enough to allow you to
conduct a search for the records that are of interest to me. A
transcription of his letter is attached, for your information.
Evidently, Mr. Zolton needed specific years for which I was
interested in obtaining records. I timely responded to Mr.
Zolton in writing on September 19, 1996 (see attached).
Thirdly, Mr. Zolton's letter contained an amazing admission that
awards made under PMRS took the form of cash payments or quality
step in-grade promotions. If there are no records of said cash
payments, this raises the ugly specter of widespread federal
income tax evasion by recipients of these cash payments,
including possibly the President. The American People have a
right to know who received these cash payments, when, and how
much. The FOIA imposes no requirement upon me to demonstrate
relevance or materiality of these records, however.
Therefore, I am entirely unsatisfied with the response(s) of your
organization to date, and demand that you refrain from closing
your administrative appeal file in this matter.
Finally, please be advised that I do not accept U.S. mail from
the federal government, or from any of its agencies, assigns,
colorable trusts, or instrumentalities, with two-letter federal
abbreviations (e.g. "AZ") or with unqualified ZIP codes. Since
you may not have known this, I have made an exception solely for
the purpose of explaining my position and future intent to you.
This is to inform you that I will refuse any such mail from you
in the future, unless it is directed to the correct mailing
location shown above. Please see USPS Publication #221 for
details.
Thank you very much for your consideration. I will look forward
to your continued cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
Citizen of Arizona state, federal witness
and Counselor at Law
copies: The Internet
Judge Alex Kozinski, Ninth Circuit
# # #
c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776
Tucson [zip code exempt]
ARIZONA REPUBLIC
November 5, 1996
Mr. Kenneth Starr
Independent Counsel
1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Suite 490-North
Washington, D.C.
Postal Zone <20004>
Subject: IRS Kick-Backs to the President from the
Performance Management and Recognition System
("PMRS")
Dear Mr. Starr:
I have evidence in my possession which implicates President
William Jefferson Clinton in the receipt of illegal IRS kick-
backs from a defunct federal program called Performance
Management and Recognition System ("PMRS"). As of yesterday, the
Alta Vista search engine found some 20 documents on the Internet
which mention this system.
To obtain more information about PMRS, I have already submitted a
Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") request to the Department of
the Treasury for all financial records of the PMRS. Quite to my
surprise, Mr. Mark L. Zolton wrote back to explain that some
records do not exist, because the rewards were paid in cash.
For your information, I have decided to become rather politically
active in this matter. Enclosed please find my essay entitled
"The Kick-Back Racket: Performance Management and Recognition
System," which I enclose for your consideration and review.
Please accept this as my firm offer to testify before a competent
and qualified federal grand jury in this matter. I wish this
matter to be investigated fully, and that is the main reason why
I have brought it to your attention at this time.
If I can assist you, or any others in your office, in the course
of investigating PMRS, please contact me immediately.
Thank you very much for your consideration.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
Counselor at Law, federal witness
and Citizen of Arizona state
enclosures
copy: Judge Alex Kozinski, Ninth Circuit
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