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riversedge

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Tue Sep 20, 2016, 06:05 PM Sep 2016

Another group files IRS complaint against Wisconsin Club for Growth

Something has to stick sooner or later.


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Another group files IRS complaint against Wisconsin Club for Growth

MATTHEW DeFOUR mdefour@madison.com 2 hrs ago 30

The conservative group at the center of Gov. Scott Walker's political operation during the 2011 and 2012 recalls may have flouted IRS rules by providing a private benefit, a former agency administrator said Wednesday.

The comments came the same day a Wisconsin group filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service alleging the Wisconsin Club for Growth violated federal law when it operated as a fundraising and campaign hub for Walker and Senate Republicans facing recall.

The complaint from the nonpartisan Wisconsin Democracy Campaign comes in the wake of a report by the Guardian US, an arm of the British newspaper, which published leaked documents last week providing the clearest picture yet of how the group operated.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court last year quashed a secretive John Doe investigation into whether the group violated Wisconsin campaign finance laws. The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled Monday to consider whether to hear the case...............................

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Another group files IRS complaint against Wisconsin Club for Growth (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2016 OP
What is Trump's criminal exposure for giving Scott Walker a check for Wisconsin Club for Growth? Coyotl Sep 2016 #1
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