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Russia investigators likely got access to NRA's tax filings, secret donors
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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 Trumps presidential campaign.
The NRA, which spent $30 million-plus backing Trumps 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 theres an easy explanation for that. They say it would be routine for Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigators, who are looking at the NRAs funding as part of a broader inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections, to secretly gain access to the NRAs 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 groups publicly disclosed pro-Trump spending, as well as its multimillion-dollar efforts to heighten voter turnout. The NRAs 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
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Judi Lynn
(160,217 posts)1. It's wonderful they are looking so hard at Dana Rohrabacher, too.
He has always been such a truculent, war-mongering, underhanded scumball:
..... Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California, considered by some analysts to be Putins 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.
Uncle Joe
(58,112 posts)2. Thank you for the additions Judi Lynn