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applegrove

(118,497 posts)
Thu Jul 31, 2014, 06:12 PM Jul 2014

"Koch-backed seniors group low-balling election spending?"

Koch-backed seniors group low-balling election spending?

By Michael Beckel at the Center For Public Integrity

http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/07/30/15163/koch-backed-seniors-group-low-balling-election-spending

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The 60 Plus Association — a nonprofit senior citizen advocacy group funded largely by billionaire businessmen Charles and David Koch’s conservative political network — appears to have vastly understated its level of election spending on federal tax filings, a Center for Public Integrity review of documents indicates.

The Virginia-based organization told the Federal Election Commission that it spent about $4.6 million on political ads and “voter contact” phone calls endorsing or denouncing federal candidates during the three months prior to the 2012 election.

But it reported spending a mere $35,000 on “direct and indirect political campaign activities” during its entire 2012 fiscal year to the Internal Revenue Service. It didn’t count toward that amount $4 million in spending it reported separately as “educating seniors by influencing the election of political candidates.”

It’s a felony to “willfully” file IRS tax returns containing fraudulent information.




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"Koch-backed seniors group low-balling election spending?" (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2014 OP
Another Krotch Brothers fake front. Wellstone ruled Jul 2014 #1
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. Another Krotch Brothers fake front.
Thu Jul 31, 2014, 06:30 PM
Jul 2014

Wake up Seniors,these assholes are about stealing your savings and telling you,you got a helluva deal.

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