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Archae

(46,322 posts)
Sat Mar 29, 2014, 12:53 PM Mar 2014

Just as I thought, "Friends Of Abe" is a scam.

And seeing Gary Sinise's involvement in the scam saddens me.

Conservative Stars Gamed IRS, Palled Around With Holocaust Denier

Friends of Abe claimed they're just a social club suffering at the hands of the IRS, but they're really something entirely different.

Remember Friends of Abe? They were the group who complained last month that the IRS was being mean to them by doing its job, probing to make sure they were really organized for a legitimate tax exempt purpose.

After their big public whinefest, the IRS granted them tax-exempt status. Status, by the way, that enables their star-studded member list to deduct any and all contributions made to their organization.

It turns out that they were collecting donations for the past three years by presenting themselves as something they weren't.

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/03/conservative-stars-gamed-irs-donors-three

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Just as I thought, "Friends Of Abe" is a scam. (Original Post) Archae Mar 2014 OP
cons never tell the truth randys1 Mar 2014 #1
Too late. Jackpine Radical Mar 2014 #2

randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. cons never tell the truth
Sat Mar 29, 2014, 12:57 PM
Mar 2014

Conservatives basically never tell the truth, unless it fits a certain agenda and their agenda is always self serving.

Teaparty has taken that attitude to a new height that is beyond frightening and dangerous, it simply will destroy this country if allowed to infect the system.

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