{"id":25824,"date":"2011-07-12T18:41:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T22:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25824"},"modified":"2011-07-12T18:41:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T22:41:21","slug":"votevets-secretly-funds-political-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25824","title":{"rendered":"VoteVets secretly funds political activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TSO sends a link to an article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-06-16\/secret-election-financing-surges-with-evasion-of-irs-scrutiny.html\">Bloomberg<\/a> about how some tax-exempt non-profits are evading IRS and Federal Election Commission  scrutiny to fund political activities and allow donors a measure of anonymity. If you scroll all the way down to the bottom you&#8217;ll read this;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>VoteVets Action Fund, a tax-exempt that raised money from secret donors and favors Democrats, reported $3.2 million in election spending to the FEC in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The group told the IRS in its filing covering the 2008 election that it had no political activity, while it reported $205,000 in ad spending to the FEC for that year. Questioned about this, Ashwin Madia, the group\u2019s interim chairman, called it a mistake. VoteVets \u201cshould have checked yes under political activity,\u201d Madia said. \u201cWe\u2019re going back to the IRS to correct that oversight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In its latest filing, for the year ended June 30, 2010, the group told the IRS it had campaign activities and reported a $200,000 donation to Patriot Majority, a Democratic-leaning organization whose donors include the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the Teamsters union. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>2008? Wasn&#8217;t that when Jon Soltz was running the joint? And now Ashwin Madia is caught holding the bag. Really? An Army officer trying to defraud the American tax payers? That probably won&#8217;t sit well with his commander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSO sends a link to an article from Bloomberg about how some tax-exempt non-profits are evading &hellip; <a title=\"VoteVets secretly funds political activities\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25824\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VoteVets secretly funds political activities<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}