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Omaha Steve

(99,632 posts)
Mon Oct 27, 2014, 07:40 PM Oct 2014

CMD Files IRS Complaint Against Wisconsin Club for Growth

Source: PR Watch

Complaint alleges group at center of Walker probe lied to IRS about political activity and violated its tax-exempt status, based on extensive new evidence.

The Center for Media and Democracy has filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service alleging that the Wisconsin Club for Growth lied to the IRS in 2011 and 2012, violated its tax-exempt status by operating as a political committee, and operated primarily for the private partisan benefit of the Republican Party, rather than for any sort of “social welfare.”

The problem of politically-active “dark money” nonprofits abusing the tax code is growing, but never before has such extensive evidence of a tax-exempt group’s internal communications about its explicit and extensive role in elections been made publicly available. Newly-public documents contradict WICFG's assertions to the IRS that it operated primarily to advance social welfare and engaged in zero political activity.

“We believe the evidence shows that the Wisconsin Club for Growth deliberately chose to cheat the tax code in order to hide the identities of the out-of-state millionaires, billionaires, and for-profit corporations pouring millions into Wisconsin elections,” said Brendan Fischer, General Counsel of the Center for Media and Democracy, who authored the complaint. “By Wisconsin Club for Growth operating in this manner, our elected officials knew who greased their campaign wheels, but the public was left in the dark.”

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/10/12640/cmd-files-irs-complaint-against-wisconsin-club-growth



Complaints in PDF at bottom of the story.
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CMD Files IRS Complaint Against Wisconsin Club for Growth (Original Post) Omaha Steve Oct 2014 OP
Is that Grover Norquist's stupid shit? shenmue Oct 2014 #1
This is good. Half-Century Man Oct 2014 #2
K & R !!! WillyT Oct 2014 #3
I knew the president of Club for Growth during my high school years... cascadiance Oct 2014 #4
The I.R.S is not likely to do anything unless we stay on them. Dustlawyer Oct 2014 #5
 

cascadiance

(19,537 posts)
4. I knew the president of Club for Growth during my high school years...
Mon Oct 27, 2014, 08:37 PM
Oct 2014

His family had a black dog named Onyx then. I think they did a deal with the devil early on!

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