Time: Wed Nov 13 10:28:01 1996
To: Chris Wilder
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: The Kick-Back Racket
Cc:
Bcc:
>Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 10:24:20
>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
>
>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.
>
>Transcription follows:
>
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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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