Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Beware of "charities" and nonprofits set up by politicians…




Link to story from the dailywire:




From the story:


“The organization’s annual “Caucus Weekend” includes workshops, concerts and parties in Albany for minority members of the Assembly and the Senate. Sponsors could donate as much $50,000 so they could meet Democratic celebrities like Hillary Clinton. Jesse Jackson, Grammy-winning rapper Big Daddy Kane, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, and former US Ambassador Andrew Young. Caucus Weekend 2016 spent $128,000 on “food service,” $36,500 on music and $56,494 for “equipment rental.”


The Post claimed that the organization would not let the paper see its tax filings that covered the period October 2016 to September 2017, though federal law states the information must be dispensed. The Post noted, “The group had its charitable status temporarily revoked in 2011 by the IRS after it failed to file tax returns for three consecutive years, according to federal tax documents.””