To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Congress:Demand Effective Auditing of Incentive-Subsidy Paid to Florida for Alimony Collection
Recover the undeserved and prejudicial portion of federal incentive payments Florida has been receiving due to its intentionally deceptive processing of alimony collections, and compensate those harmed by the process. Florida’s illegally prompted misdistribution of federal incentive payments to itself now amounts to about $100,000,000 and has been increasing about $10,000,000 every year (estimated from published IRS and Census data).
Why is this important?
To understand why this petition is needed go to my blog at:
http://borisbermesblog.wordpress.com
AND
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAS WARNED AGAINST FAMILY LAW CORRUPTION
More state revenue is raised from alimony collecting, motivating longer duration alimony than justified
An American Bar Association (ABA) web site (abajournal.com) is inviting comments on a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) letter sent to “Dear Colleague” on March 14, 2016 which addresses current state and local court practices that run afoul of federal law. The letter sets forth the requirements of several principles that need to be followed to correct the situation. Press coverage of this important development however reported only on Principles 1 thru 4 relating to harmful effect of fees and fines associated with the illegal enforcement of court ordered support payments upon the indigent and minorities.
What has been ignored is the DOJ’s less emotional concerns, Principle 7, which addresses opportunities for wrongdoing (corruption) when contractors are hired to act as proxies. An example can be the Florida Department of Revenue (DOR) employing a private contractor as its State Disbursement Unit (SDU) to implement the federal Welfare Reform Act by having it take over management of court ordered support collecting that creates data for calculating how large its reward from the federal government will be for collecting the support.
Principle 7 of the DOJ letter (https://www.justice.gov/crt/file/832461/download) warns that “Courts must safeguard against unconstitutional practices by court staff and private contractors.” That means the payment management practices they carry out is suspect, as explained by DOJ’s analogous examples (last two paragraphs, page 8 of the letter) since DOR is the Act’s designee and has a pecuniary interest (revenue generation) in the outcome of its decision on which court ordered payments its contractor collects (the more child and spousal support contractors collect, the greater the incentive rewards DOR can receive.)
One example of the illegal activity associated with misuse of the federal Welfare Reform Act is Florida having its contractor ignore the federal regulation establishing nationwide that spousal support is alimony for custodial parents so it consequently receives a larger, undeserved, percentage portion of the Act’s shared incentive fund pool by also accounting for lifetime alimony collecting that is not spousal support. Therefore nationwide implementation of the Act is unconstitutional because bureaucrats are allowing some states to not comply with the law while denying the compliant states protection by choosing not to impose available penalties and stop the resulting fraud which is harming them by reducing their percentage share of the incentive payment pool.
I documented Florida’s harmful government program fraud in my blog dated March 2, 2016
http://borisbermesblog.wordpress.com which was emailed to federal law enforcement with my request for an independent investigation of that situation, but there has not been any acknowledgement of my request. Therefore I hope anyone not in agreement with the apparent thinking that an investigation is not warranted will let the ABA know by going to their web site at http://www.abajournal.com/mobile/article/justice_department_warns_local_courts_about_illegal_enforcement_of_fees_and and post a comment.
(Published April 2, 2016 on my Facebook page under title “Corruptive Effects of Lifetime Alimony”)
http://borisbermesblog.wordpress.com
AND
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAS WARNED AGAINST FAMILY LAW CORRUPTION
More state revenue is raised from alimony collecting, motivating longer duration alimony than justified
An American Bar Association (ABA) web site (abajournal.com) is inviting comments on a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) letter sent to “Dear Colleague” on March 14, 2016 which addresses current state and local court practices that run afoul of federal law. The letter sets forth the requirements of several principles that need to be followed to correct the situation. Press coverage of this important development however reported only on Principles 1 thru 4 relating to harmful effect of fees and fines associated with the illegal enforcement of court ordered support payments upon the indigent and minorities.
What has been ignored is the DOJ’s less emotional concerns, Principle 7, which addresses opportunities for wrongdoing (corruption) when contractors are hired to act as proxies. An example can be the Florida Department of Revenue (DOR) employing a private contractor as its State Disbursement Unit (SDU) to implement the federal Welfare Reform Act by having it take over management of court ordered support collecting that creates data for calculating how large its reward from the federal government will be for collecting the support.
Principle 7 of the DOJ letter (https://www.justice.gov/crt/file/832461/download) warns that “Courts must safeguard against unconstitutional practices by court staff and private contractors.” That means the payment management practices they carry out is suspect, as explained by DOJ’s analogous examples (last two paragraphs, page 8 of the letter) since DOR is the Act’s designee and has a pecuniary interest (revenue generation) in the outcome of its decision on which court ordered payments its contractor collects (the more child and spousal support contractors collect, the greater the incentive rewards DOR can receive.)
One example of the illegal activity associated with misuse of the federal Welfare Reform Act is Florida having its contractor ignore the federal regulation establishing nationwide that spousal support is alimony for custodial parents so it consequently receives a larger, undeserved, percentage portion of the Act’s shared incentive fund pool by also accounting for lifetime alimony collecting that is not spousal support. Therefore nationwide implementation of the Act is unconstitutional because bureaucrats are allowing some states to not comply with the law while denying the compliant states protection by choosing not to impose available penalties and stop the resulting fraud which is harming them by reducing their percentage share of the incentive payment pool.
I documented Florida’s harmful government program fraud in my blog dated March 2, 2016
http://borisbermesblog.wordpress.com which was emailed to federal law enforcement with my request for an independent investigation of that situation, but there has not been any acknowledgement of my request. Therefore I hope anyone not in agreement with the apparent thinking that an investigation is not warranted will let the ABA know by going to their web site at http://www.abajournal.com/mobile/article/justice_department_warns_local_courts_about_illegal_enforcement_of_fees_and and post a comment.
(Published April 2, 2016 on my Facebook page under title “Corruptive Effects of Lifetime Alimony”)