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Earth_First

(14,910 posts)
Wed Mar 19, 2014, 10:07 PM Mar 2014

The Tangled Web of Anonymity Behind the Koch Brothers' Funding of Non-Profits

Documents released in recent months show the Kochs have added wrinkles to their network that even experts well versed in tax law and campaign finance say they’ve never seen before — wrinkles that could make it harder to discern who controls each nonprofit in the web and how it disperses its money.

A review of 2012 tax returns filed by Koch network groups shows that most have been set up as nonprofit trusts rather than not-for-profit corporations, an unusual step that reduces their public reporting requirements.

It sounds complicated and arcane because it is. Some of the nation’s top nonprofit experts said they could only speculate on the reasons for the network’s increasingly elaborate setup.

“My guess is that we’re looking at various forms of disguise — to disguise control, to disguise the flow of funds from one entity to another,” said Gregory Colvin, a tax lawyer and campaign-finance specialist in San Francisco who reviewed all the documents for ProPublica.

http://www.propublica.org/article/who-controls-koch-political-network-asmi-slah-tohe

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The Tangled Web of Anonymity Behind the Koch Brothers' Funding of Non-Profits (Original Post) Earth_First Mar 2014 OP
It's interesting that the Koch Brothers are libertarian, confirming once again for me that Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2014 #1
K&R woo me with science Mar 2014 #2

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
1. It's interesting that the Koch Brothers are libertarian, confirming once again for me that
Wed Mar 19, 2014, 10:12 PM
Mar 2014

Libertarians are nothing more than corporofascists.

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