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Uncle Joe

(58,112 posts)
Mon Jul 2, 2018, 05:41 PM Jul 2018

Russia investigators likely got access to NRA's tax filings, secret donors




WASHINGTON
For months, the National Rifle Association has had a stock answer to queries about an investigation into whether Russian money was funneled to the gun rights group to aid Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

The NRA, which spent $30 million-plus backing Trump’s bid, has heard nothing from the FBI or any other law enforcement agency, spokesman Andrew Arulanandam reiterated in an email the other day.

Legal experts, though, say there’s an easy explanation for that. They say it would be routine for Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators, who are looking at the NRA’s funding as part of a broader inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections, to secretly gain access to the NRA’s tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service.

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On the returns, the group was required to identify its so-called “dark money” donors -- companies and wealthy individuals who financed $21 million of the group’s publicly disclosed pro-Trump spending, as well as its multimillion-dollar efforts to heighten voter turnout. The NRA’s nonprofit status allows it to shield those donors’ names from the public, but not the IRS.

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https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article214075459.html




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Russia investigators likely got access to NRA's tax filings, secret donors (Original Post) Uncle Joe Jul 2018 OP
It's wonderful they are looking so hard at Dana Rohrabacher, too. Judi Lynn Jul 2018 #1
Thank you for the additions Judi Lynn Uncle Joe Jul 2018 #2

Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
1. It's wonderful they are looking so hard at Dana Rohrabacher, too.
Mon Jul 2, 2018, 07:52 PM
Jul 2018

He has always been such a truculent, war-mongering, underhanded scumball:

..... Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California, considered by some analysts to be Putin’s best friend in Washington.


Can't wait until the whole story on this ugly mutant is revealed. He has been tempting fate for so very long.







Halfwit


Thank you for this article, Uncle Joe. It's great.
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