IRS Exempt Organization Unit Chief Officer Violated U.S. Laws

[From article]
When Lois Lerner, the former IRS chief of the Exempt Organization unit and figure at the center of the targeting scandal, transferred 1.25 million IRS documents to the Justice Department in October of 2010, she almost certainly broke the law, according to new documents unearthed by the group Cause of Action in a FOIA suit.
The documents contained tax returns and other private tax information from non-profit groups. The transfer was done in advance of a meeting between IRS and Justice Department officials to discuss prosecuting non-profits for illegal political activity.
But federal law prohibits the transfer of tax returns to any agency without following set procedures. Lerner's transfer was thus highly illegal.
[. . .]



Documents suggest that Lerner’s massive document transfer to the DOJ didn’t meet any of those exceptions, including one that allows the agency to disclose returns for use in criminal investigations — if they’ve been requested in relation to “an actual investigation about a person to whom the investigation is related,” says O’Connor. Both Lerner and the DOJ were interested in figuring out how to prosecute non-profit groups they believed were engaging in improper political activity, and Lerner sent the documents over to the department days before an October 8 meeting with several of her IRS colleagues, an FBI agent, and attorneys from the DOJ’s public-integrity section.
[. . .]
A lawful transfer of the documents would have required a formal request from the DOJ to the IRS, but DOJ trial attorney Stephanie Sasarak told Cause of Action in a March 9, 2016, letter that the department did not make any requests to the IRS for the documents it received. Alternatively, the secretary of the Treasury could have turned the documents over to the DOJ. In either case, section 6103 requires the Treasury secretary to disclose the transfer to the bipartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, which releases publicly a list of disclosures each year. But the Joint Committee on Taxation’s 2010 disclosure report does not show a transfer to the Department of Justice that matches the one Lerner sent in October of that year.
[. . .]



Thousands of non-profit groups had their tax returns transferred illegally, while the IRS and Justice deliberately kept Congress in the dark.
The FBI closed its investigation of the Tea Party targeting scandal in October of 2015 without indicting anyone.
It doesn't get any clearer than this. Procedures set down by law on how taxpayer info can be disclosed were discarded, and a cover-up of the transfer to DoJ was initiated. What's worrisome is, if they are covering up disclosure violations like this, how many more taxpayers are in the cross hairs of the IRS and DoJ without knowing it, and is there any way to find out?

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/06/new_docs_show_irss_lois_lerner_broke_the_law.html

June 30, 2016
New docs show IRS's Lois Lerner broke the law
By Rick Moran

Democratic U.S. Rep. Convicted Of Racketeering, After Son Was Sentenced To Five Years For Bank and Tax Fraud

Longtime Democratic representative Chaka Fattah was convicted Tuesday to charges stemming from his efforts to repay an illegal $1 million campaign loan.

[From article]
A veteran Pennsylvania congressman was convicted Tuesday in a racketeering case that largely centered on various efforts to repay an illegal $1 million campaign loan related to his unsuccessful 2007 mayoral bid.
U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah was found guilty of all counts against him, including racketeering, fraud and money laundering. His lawyers had argued that the schemes were engineered without Fattah's knowledge by two political consultants who pleaded guilty in the case.
The 59-year-old Democrat had been in Congress since 1995 and served on the powerful House Appropriations Committee. But he lost the April primary and his bid for his 12th term. His current term ends Jan. 2.
Fattah had little reaction to the verdict, but he kept a smile on his face as he conferred with his lawyers afterward.
He will remain free on bail. A judge set sentencing for Oct. 4.
Fattah told reporters as he was leaving the courtroom: "Well, it's a tough day, but I do want to thank the jurors for their service." He said he will confer with his lawyers on the next step.
Prosecutors said Fattah routed federal grant money and nonprofit funds through his consultants to pay back the illegal loan.
His wife, Philadelphia TV news anchor Renee Chenault-Fattah, took a leave after her husband's indictment and then quit in February. She was cited in the case over the sham sale of her Porsche, which prosecutors said was a bribe. But she was never charged with any wronging, and she said the sale was legitimate.
In a related case, his son, Chaka "Chip" Fattah Jr., was convicted on charges of bank and tax fraud and sentenced in February to five years in prison. A jury found he took part in a scheme as a subcontractor to defraud the Philadelphia school district.
Justice Department lawyer Jonathan Kravis said in his closing argument that Chaka Fattah Sr. used federal grants and nonprofit funds to enrich his family and friends.
Defense lawyers acknowledged Fattah might have gotten himself in financial trouble after a costly mayoral bid, but they said any help from friends amounted to gifts, not bribes.
Many of them came from co-defendant Herbert Vederman, a wealthy friend who had dreams of scoring an ambassadorship. U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat, testified that he never took the pitch from Fattah too seriously, even though Fattah once bent the president's ear about it. Democrat Ed Rendell, a former mayor and governor, was called to defend Vederman, his former deputy mayor. He said Vederman was qualified for the job and accused prosecutors of cynically misreading the help he lent Fattah.
Vederman helped support Fattah's South African nanny and paid $18,000 for a Porsche owned by Fattah's TV anchor wife.
"The nanny, the Porsche and the Poconos, they weren't part of a bribery scheme," Fattah lawyer Samuel Silver argued in closings. "Those were all overreaches by the prosecution."
The campaign loan was just one of several schemes prosecutors outlined during the trial. They say Fattah was aided in his endeavors by current and former staffers who ran his district office or the nonprofits; by Vederman, who now lives in Palm Beach, Florida; and by political consultants Greg Naylor and Thomas Lindenfeld, who pleaded guilty.
The other co-defendants are Bonnie Bowser, of Philadelphia, who ran his district office; Karen Nicholas, of Williamstown, New Jersey, who ran the education nonprofit Fattah started; and Robert Brand, of Philadelphia, a businessman married to a former Fattah staffer. The jury on Tuesday came back with a mixed verdict for them.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3652804/Verdict-reached-Pennsylvania-congressmans-bribery-case.html

Democratic congressman Chaka Fattah convicted on racketeering, fraud and money laundering charges for using federal grant money to pay back an illegal campaign loan
Fatah was elected in 1995
He was put on the powerful House Appropriations Committee
'The nanny, the Porsche and the Poconos'
Lawmaker ran into financial trouble after failed bid for mayor of Philadelphia
Defense claims Fattah accepted help from a friend, but not bribes
His son also was convicted in a related case
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 12:12 EST, 21 June 2016 | UPDATED: 13:09 EST, 21 June 2016

Anti Israeli Soros LInked Non Profit Exposed

[From article]
Jewish Voice for Peace is a fanatical anti-Israel group and a leading proponent of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign to toxify Israel. As CAMERA has documented, the group disseminates the most vicious smears against the Jewish state, including blood libels. For example, in a guest editorial in the Detroit Free Press in 2008, Jewish Voice for Peace repeated a libelous charge that Israeli troops had committed a massacre in the village of Tantara during the 1948 war for Israeli independence. The individual who had fabricated the story, a graduate student under the tutelage of anti-Zionist professor Ilan Pappe, had admitted under oath in a libel suit brought against him that there was no evidence to support the charge of a massacre. Yet the guest editorial writers continued to promote the libelous smear.



Ample evidence of Jewish Voice for Peace's mendacity, there is an ongoing effort by Israel's detractors in both the media and academia to portray the cultish group as a legitimate participant in the discussion about Israel and the Palestinians.
On May 12, 2016, CAMERA received information about a course claiming to be affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Global Studies Department that utilized Jewish Voice for Peace as its main information source to teach high school students about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In the media, Jewish Voice for Peace is cited by journalists and commentators who share the same far left orientation. The New York Times' columnist Nicholas Kristof cited Jewish Voice for Peace in a column on Aug. 3, 2011 in which he discussed Jewish groups "seeking balance" in the United States' involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Kristof depicted the group in benign terms as one that "supports divestment campaigns against companies profiting from the occupation of Palestinian territories."



J Street, a group funded by radical billionaire currrency speculator George Soros and an obscure Asian businesswoman named Consolacion Esdicul, also has engaged with the group. While officially not endorsing Jewish Voice for Peace, J Street has welcomed its representatives to its conferences and co-sponsored various letters promoting the Iran deal and other activities with negative repercussions for Israel.
A recent report by the Israel-based NGO Monitor illuminates those who fund the anti-Israel agitation of Jewish Voice for Peace. They include familiar anti-Israel money sources as well as some surprising additions.



In the 2014-5 period, the largest visible donations were provided by:
Rockefeller Brothers Fund- ($140,000 in 2015)
Tides Foundation- ($49,477 in 2014)
Firedoll Foundation- ($25,000 in 2014)
Schwab Charitable Foundation- ($158,800 in 2014)
Jewish Communal Fund- ($25,100 in 2015)

http://blog.camera.org/archives/2016/05/the_money_trail_to_jewish_voic.html

May 13, 2016
The Money Trail Behind Jewish Voice for Peace

Free Spirited Clinton Foundation

[From article]
The Clinton Global Initiative articles of incorporation state that its purposes are "exclusively charitable," yet Bill used the CGI to steer a $2 million donation to a private company with ties to his close friend and neighbor, Julie Tauber McMahon.
[. . .]
The articles of incorporation for the CGI provide in Article VII as follows:
The purposes for which the corporation is established are exclusively charitable, as specified in Ark. Code Ann, § 4-33-201, and shall include engaging governmental, corporate, and non-profit leaders, as wel1 as college students and on-line participants, in the development of concrete and measurable commitments to action to address some of the world's most pressing challenges.
The management of CGI included some Wall Street alumni: the CEO was Robert S. Harrison, a former partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs (which paid Hillary $675,000 in speaking fees)
[. . .]
The purpose of the CGI was to bring like-minded people together to solve global problems and they did so at lavish, splashy meetings. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, at a 2010 meeting in New York, Bill Clinton arranged for a "commitment" by Kim Samuel, a philanthropist and owner of the Samuel Companies, to invest $2 million in Energy Pioneer Solutions, a private company. While the CGI did not make the investment itself, it did pay substantial sums for the venue to close the deal. This alone should raise eyebrows since a tax-exempt charity is facilitating an investment in a for-profit company, which in this case was clearly in violation of the CGI articles of incorporation. The kicker is that one of the major investors in this company was Ms. McMahon who is Bill's neighbor, a frequent visitor and by some accounts, his mistress.
[. . .]
It is not clear if the FBI probe has looked into this episode of the long running Clinton soap opera, but there appears to be plenty to investigate about Bill and Hillary.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/05/clinton_sleaze_bills_foundation_violated_its_own_articles_of_incorporation.html

May 14, 2016
Clinton Sleaze: Bill's foundation violated its own articles of incorporation
By Richard Henry Lee

New York Governor and Close Associates Under Scrutiny By U.S. Attorney

Joseph Percoco, VP Madison Square Garden

Photo: AP

[From article]
A former top Cuomo aide who is under criminal investigation for “consulting’’ with companies doing business with the state told potential clients he had the administration’s OK for the work — despite never receiving it, The Post has been told.
Madison Square Garden Executive Vice President Joseph Percoco, who until last January was Gov. Cuomo’s executive deputy secretary and one of his closest friends, “told various clients or potential clients that he had approval from the governor’s counsel’s office to work for them,’’ said a source close to the situation.
“It turned out the counsel’s office did no such thing. It didn’t give any approval,” the source said. “And Joe never gave the clients anything to prove what he said, so the clients didn’t get anything in writing.’’
Public records show that Percoco, who left the state payroll for several months in early 2014 to run Cuomo’s re-election campaign, said he received as much as $125,000 in still-unexplained “consulting’’ fees during that year from two companies, COR Development of Syracuse and Albany-based CHA Consulting, which have longstanding dealings and tens of millions of dollars in contracts with the state.
Percoco’s income from the companies didn’t become public until late last month, when US Attorney Preet Bharara served a subpoena on Cuomo’s office seeking records relating to Percoco’s work, as well as the work performed for those and other companies by influential lobbyist Todd Howe, a Percoco friend and longtime associate of both Andrew and former Gov. Mario Cuomo.
Howe, who sources said helped arrange the consulting work for Percoco, was fired last week by a longtime employer — Albany-based law/lobbying firm Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna — after being barred days earlier by Cuomo from having any contact with the state government.
[. . .]
The subpoena, excerpts of which were obtained by The Post, sought “phone logs, visitor logs, calendar entries between January 2012 and present that show meetings with any’’ entities on a list of 26 individuals and companies.
The subpoena also demanded information on “any actions taken by” Percoco, Secretary to the Governor William Mulrow, state Operations Director James Malatras, Buffalo-area Democratic operative Peter Cutler and other Cuomo aides related to the companies for which Percoco and Howe worked, as well as for several other companies connected to the governor’s high-profile “Buffalo Billion’’ economic-development efforts.
It also seeks “any documents concerning’’ two not-for-profit economic-development companies set up in conjunction with SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering and its president, Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, a key “Buffalo Billion’’ adviser.
Sources in the Cuomo administration said the governor appears “increasingly nervous and anxious’’ about Bharara’s probe, and some noted that Cuomo has almost completely disappeared from public view during the past weeks as the scandal began to unfold

http://nypost.com/2016/05/08/cuomo-crony-lied-to-potential-clients-said-he-had-governors-ok-to-work/

Cuomo crony lied to potential clients — said he had governor’s OK to work
By Fredric U. Dicker
New York Post
May 8, 2016 | 11:57pm

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http://nypost.com/2016/05/09/fbi-raids-homes-of-two-cuomo-cronies-amid-corruption-probe/

FBI raids homes of two Cuomo cronies amid corruption probe
By Kaja Whitehouse, Kirstan Conley and Bruce Golding
New York Post
May 9, 2016 | 3:33am

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http://nypost.com/2016/05/02/investigation-of-confidant-could-be-a-career-killer-for-cuomo/

Investigation of confidant could be a career-killer for Cuomo
By Fredric U. Dicker
New York Post
May 2, 2016 | 12:08am

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http://nypost.com/2016/05/05/shady-cuomo-pal-received-nearly-100-financing-on-815k-home/

‘Shady’ Cuomo pal received nearly 100% financing on $815K home
By Kirstan Conley, Reuven Fenton and Bruce Golding
New York Post
May 5, 2016 | 12:55am

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http://nypost.com/2016/05/06/cuomo-linked-lobbyist-fired-by-law-firm-amid-federal-probe/

Cuomo-linked lobbyist fired by law firm amid federal probe
By Kirstan Conley and Aaron Short
New York Post
May 6, 2016 | 4:11pm

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Picking Up The Pieces Of Boston Families

[From article]
The organization is emphasizing 5 basic strategies to help parents better engage with their kids:
• Maximize love and manage stress — Toddlers need to feel secure in order to have the confidence to explore the world; parents need to provide patience and cuddle them.
•  Talk, sing and point — Be sure to have conversations with your kids as you walk through a neighborhood. Talk about your surroundings.
•  Count, group and compare — Math begins way before school starts. Toddlers can learn distances, sizes, numbers and patterns with simple activities at home.
• Explore through movement and play — Kids learn by touching, banging, crawling and so on. Help them explore their surroundings.
•   Read and discuss stories — The more you read to your children, the better prepared they will be to read at school. Ask them questions while you are reading to help get them engaged.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/jaclyn_cashman/2016/01/cashman_city_nonprofit_step_up_to_help_community_learn_basics

Cashman: City, nonprofit step up to help community learn ‘Basics’
Jaclyn Cashman

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Harvard University, Public Charity Laments Its $37 billion Endowment as Insufficient

Do all non profit charities have discussions like this one? Faust and Summers sound like Orwell's 1984, "profit is non profit."



http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/10/7/faust-concern-hmc-performance/

Endowment’s Performance Is Concerning, Faust Says
Harvard Management Company’s returns again trail peers
By MARIEL A. KLEIN , THEODORE R. DELWICHE, and WILLIAM C. SKINNER,

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS

October 7, 2015

Favor Bank Activity in Illinois

[From article]
This story has all the elements of Democrat establishment corruption: an entrepreneur seeking affirmative action preferences, a congressman who is also a preacher, and a nonprofit organization receiving the money.
[. . .]
Rush is a former member of the Black Panthers and served six months in jail for a weapons violation. He became a born-again Christian and a politician, combining what the Democrats like to call “public service” roles as a minister and a congressman.
One hand washes the other in Chicago.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/09/why_isnt_this_a_bribe.html

September 29, 2015
Why isn't this a bribe?
By Thomas Lifson

AARP, AAA. Non Profits Use Fronts For, For Profit Corporations

[From article]
Triple A charges its members about $50 a year for the towing and map services which identify a clientele population that are excellent prospects for its real businesses which are selling insurance and selling travel agency services (mainly cruises).



AARP charges its members twelve dollars a year to separate age fifty plus affluent people from the rest of the population and who become perfect prospects for the services it promotes and for which it receives commissions and royalties.



And Planned Parenthood? Uncle Sam gives them a half billion dollars a year to underwrite the activities that identify (mostly) young, sexually active, single female clients, the prime market for their real business which is performing abortions that bring in tens of millions of dollars in revenue.
But you say, these are all “non-profits.” So what’s in it for anyone? Simple: “Non Profit” does not mean no profits are made. It means that profits cannot be distributed to owners in the form of dividends.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/09/falsefront_nonprofits.html

September 22, 2015
False-front Non-profits
By Dale Herrington

Harvard Law School Professor of Ethics, and Campaign Finance Corruption Fighter, Ignores IRS Laws

"Campaign finance reform," blah, blah, blah. "democracy has been 'bought' by big campaign donors" You mean like Harvard University ($36 billion endowment), who allows Prof. "on leave" Lessig to use the University's not for profit incorporation status for his campaign in violation of IRS, Treasury Department, city and state tax laws?



[From article]
his commitment to campaign finance reform and equalizing voting rights.
[. . .]
Lessig repeated that America’s democracy has been “bought” by big campaign donors and that “this is not a democracy anymore.”
[. . .]
[sounds like more of the fairy dust used at the White House]
his one-policy plan: to pass a referendum aimed at reforming campaign finance and then immediately give up his presidential powers to his vice president.



http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/9/10/lessig-campaign-new-hampshire/

Lessig Kicks Off Presidential Campaign in New Hampshire
By MEG P. BERNHARD,

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
September 10, 2015

CA Attorney General Tries To Silence Criticism of Government, Intimidating Non Profits

[From article]
Nonprofit organizations are some of the most effective critics of government, other powerful institutions -- and ambitious politicians -- making them especially vulnerable to the desire to bully and censor them. The Lois Lerner/IRS scandal is a good example.
[CA Attorney General] Harris decided to push the limits by telling charities that they may not solicit contributions unless they first file a list of their top donors, which is an extortionate prior restraint on speech. Those donors are found on a confidential “Schedule B” to the tax returns filed by nonprofits with the IRS.
Federal law protects confidential tax return information, and even provides civil and criminal penalties against federal and state officials who violate the confidentiality law. The IRS was ordered to pay the National Organization for Marriage for disclosing that organization’s Schedule B donor information to hostile blogs.
As or even more importantly, what Harris is doing flies in the face of the 1958 landmark Supreme Court decision in NAACP v. Alabama. That case held that membership lists are protected by the First Amendment from demands of states and their attorneys general.
[. . .]
The formerly accessible and collaborative Ms. Lerner has since been held in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify about her activities at the center of an IRS scandal involving its treatment of conservative nonprofit organizations and their donors (“House votes to hold Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress,” The Washington Post, May 7, 2014).[4] Ms. Lerner remains in the news regularly, if not weekly, as information continues to come forth about IRS targeting groups and individuals for apparent ideological reasons
[. . .]
Which is to say that the presumption of benevolence the court of appeals accorded the government is misplaced. Information continues to trickle out under congressional investigations,[7] inspector general investigations,[8] private lawsuits,[9] and threats of contempt[10] involving government malevolence towards conservative nonprofits.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/08/kamala_harris_dem_rising_star_goes_for_the_jugular_on_conservative_nonprofits.html

August 17, 2015
Kamala Harris, Dem Rising Star, Goes for the Jugular on Conservative Nonprofits
By Mark J. Fitzgibbons

NYC Minister Charged With Fraud, Theft From Non Profit

Andre Soleil
Photo: Tamara Beckwith

[From article]

Four government agencies, including the IRS and the New York Attorney General’s Office, have demanded the group’s books and records, which have allegedly been held hostage by the Rev. Andre Soleil and his cronies, according to the Manhattan Supreme Court suit.
Soleil, a former aide to Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Gov. George Pataki, joined the West Harlem Community Organization board in 2011.
The Brooklyn attorney and Republican operative quickly gained control of the nonprofit’s seven apartment buildings, which were deeded to the group by the city in the 1990s for affordable housing, according to the lawsuit, which was filed by the organization.
[. . .]
Then, Soleil, 47, sold one of the buildings, 218 W. 116th St., without required permission from the state attorney general, to a Miami-based company for $1.4 million in December 2013, the suit says.
“Where the majority of the proceeds from this unlawful sale have gone is a mystery but, upon information and belief, defendants Copeland, Soleil and Worley have been personally enriched by this scheme,” the nonprofit’s lawyer, William Fried, says in the court papers.
Soleil has refused to account for all the proceeds, though the suit alleges he put $489,000 in his law firm’s escrow account “with the intent to convert those funds for his own use.” Court papers allege another $70,000 went to pay Copeland’s salary, even though the nonprofit’s board refused to authorize the payment.
The members say they also haven’t seen a dime of rental income from the other buildings.

http://nypost.com/2015/04/21/politically-connected-reverend-accused-of-fleecing-nonprofit/

Politically connected reverend accused of fleecing nonprofit
By Julia Marsh
New York Post
April 21, 2015 | 1:31am

IRS Unlawfully Delayed For Five Years, Non Profit Application For Tea Party Group

[From article]
Before there were the lost Lerner emails, the congressional hearings and the retaliatory budget cuts, there was the Albuquerque Tea Party, a group of politically minded folks in New Mexico who wanted to get together and share ideas for taking back their country. The IRS had other ideas about them.
Five years after the Albuquerque Tea Party applied for tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(4) of the tax code, they remain in limbo — their application apparently no closer to being approved or denied than it was the day they mailed it to the IRS on Dec. 29, 2009.
[. . .]
It’s unclear what triggered the IRS to approve the group after years of waiting. Ms. McCarty said the most recent reply to the IRS included nearly 600 pages of documents submitted a year and a half ago.
“All the back and forth questions were just stall tactics,” she said in an email. “I mean, come on — they’ve been targeting us for four years.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/12/irs-keeps-albuquerque-tea-party-in-limbo-5-years-a/

IRS keeps Albuquerque Tea Party in limbo 5 years after tax-exempt status application
By Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Monday, January 12, 2015

Two Ex-Teamsters Bosses Convicted of Extorting Hospitals And Non Profits

Secretary/Treasurer of Teamsters Local Union No. 82 John Perry.

Photo by: John Wilcox (File)

[From article]
Two ex-Teamsters union bigs were convicted of extorting Hub hospitals and local nonprofits by threatening protests if they did not give into their demands.
But a third co-defendant finished the 33-day racketeering trial in U.S. District Court in Boston with a mistrial and a fourth was acquitted.
Convicted in the RICO case were ex-Teamsters Local 82 secretary John Perry, 62, of Woburn, and his enforcer, Joseph “Jo Jo” Burhoe, 46, of Braintree.
Targets of “Perry’s Crew,” as federal prosecutors called the Teamsters gang, included Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and the United States Green Building Council, U.S. Attorney’s office said in a statement. Local 82 was shut down by the national Teamsters union in 2011 and folded into Local 25 in Charlestown.
Perry and Burhoe were convicted of threatening to picket businesses and disrupt events just hours before they were scheduled to start. “Since 2007 the defendants engaged in illegal activities in order to generate money for themselves, their friends and family members,” federal prosecutors said.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/11/two_teamsters_found_guilty_of_extorting_local_hospitals

Two Teamsters found guilty of extorting local hospitals
Two found guilty of extorting local hospitals
Thursday, November 20, 2014
By: O’Ryan Johnson
Boston Herald

NFL Abuses Continue To Be Exposed

[From article]
Amid all the finger-pointing this week surrounding the sickening video of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice sacking his now-wife unconscious in a casino elevator, the unspoken truth is that the NFL allows this reprehensible behavior because it’s one of the greatest money-making machines ever invented.
[. . .]
The profitable juggernaut that is the NFL office also continues to enjoy a grandfathered-in not-for-profit status, despite the fact that it pays a handful of top executives a total of $50 million dollars a year in salaries and bonuses.
Then there are the NFL stadiums financed with taxpayer dollars — $200 million in municipal debt, for example, from the city of Atlanta for a new home for its beloved Falcons.
Yes, NFL Inc. is flourishing, even as its fans struggle with high unemployment and stagnant wages.

http://nypost.com/2014/09/13/the-business-behind-the-nfls-blind-side/

The $45 billion reason the NFL ignores despicable behavior
By Terry Keenan
New York Post
September 13, 2014 | 10:51pm

CEO of NY Charity Convicted of Theft From Anti Poverty Non Profit

This despicable man not only hurt his own charity but brings suspicion on all charities.

[From article]
The politically connected former CEO of a prominent New York City charity was sentenced to prison Wednesday for helping to steal more than $9 million from the anti-poverty organization.
William Rapfogel, who once headed the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, will serve a term of 40 months to 10 years in a case that rattled New York's political circles. Authorities linked the decades-long theft to campaign contributions, and both the charity and Rapfogel himself have deep political ties. His wife, who's not accused of any involvement in his scheme, is Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's chief of staff.

http://bostonherald.com/business/business_markets/2014/07/ex_ceo_gets_prison_for_stealing_from_nyc_charity

Ex-CEO gets prison for stealing from NYC charity
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
By: Associated Press
Boston Herald

Lawsuit By Israeli Supporters May Expose Lawlessness at IRS

[From article]
In August of 2010, almost three years before Lois Lerner announced at a law conference that the IRS had indeed targeted certain groups, Z Street filed a lawsuit contending they were being targeted by the IRS because they disagreed with the President’s policy on Israel. In fact Z Street filed their suit against the IRS after an agent allegedly told them his direction was to “give special scrutiny to organizations connected to Israel,” and that the files of some of those “organizations were sent to a special unit in Washington, D.C. to determine whether the activities of the organization contradicted the public policies of the administration.”



Z Street was created as a non-profit organization with the purpose of “educating the public about Zionism; about the facts relating to the Middle East and to the existence of Israel as a Jewish State; and about Israel’s right to refuse to negotiate with, make concessions to, or appease terrorists.”
In its lawsuit against the IRS, Z Street alleges that the IRS violated the First Amendment when it implemented a policy that subjected Israel-related organizations applying for tax-exempt status to more rigorous review procedures than other organizations applying for that same status. They call this viewpoint discrimination.
[. . .]



However after four year of IRS delay tactics, two months ago a U.S District Judge rejected the Obama administration efforts to stop Z Street’s legal challenge, giving the organization a green light to go after the IRS.
[. . .]
the TAG manager who said Z Street was being examined because of terrorism in Israel may have been committing perjury.
[. . .]
with the exception of the Wall Street Journal and Fox News most of the media, even the conservative media haven’t covered the Z Street case.

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/07/19/z-street-the-case-which-could-blow-open-the-irs-scandal/

Z Street: The Case Which Could Blow Open The IRS Scandal
POSTED AT 4:01 PM ON JULY 19, 2014
BY JEFF DUNETZ

Obama's Faith Based NGOs, Have Little Faith Outside Of Money

[From article]
President Obama - Hello, everybody. I just had a good meeting with Governor Perry, local officials, and faith leaders to talk about the steps that we have taken and that we need to take to address the humanitarian situation on the border. And I want to thank everybody who’s been involved for taking the time to talk to me.
[. . .]
But there’s a problem, none of them are religion based organizations. None of them have churches. None of them have congregations or parishioners’.
They are the heads of government funded non-profits. Remember ACORN? Same/Same.
[. . .]
We recently stumbled upon Mr. Kevin Dinnin when we were looking around for the primary recipients’ of HHS Grants and we came upon the 2012 tax filings of BCFS, or more accurately BCFS EMD where Kevin Dinnin is the principal officer and CEO. Paid at an annual salary of $477,799+
This one group alone makes ACORN seem small ball in comparison.
Two days before this meeting with President Obama, on 7/7/14 Mr. Dinnin was given a grant from Health and Human Services in the amount of $190,707,505.

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/07/18/the-obama-dallas-immigration-visit-the-curious-case-of-obamas-faith-leaders-and-obamas-faith-based-groups/

The Last Refuge
The Obama Dallas Immigration Visit – The Curious Case of Obama’s “Faith Leaders” and Obama’s “Faith-Based Groups”…
Posted on July 18, 2014

by sundance

NY Immigration Groups Close After Fraud Charges

[From article]
Schneiderman's predecessor, now-Governor Andrew Cuomo, filed a lawsuit in 2010 against the groups and Edward Juarez, their president. He claimed they charged exorbitant fees for their services, including securing work permits and residency, and that their workers falsely claimed to be lawyers.
Juarez allegedly used the money to fund a lavish lifestyle and give jobs to his former wife and children.

http://news.yahoo.com/n-y-immigration-groups-close-over-alleged-fraud-162008969.html;_ylt=AwrBJR_XRM1Tm1oAkIHQtDMD

N.Y. immigration groups to close over alleged fraud

By Daniel Wiessner
July 21, 2014

New York City Councilman Arrested Charged With Misappropriation of Taxpayer Funds

[From article]
“Not too many people have stood before the cameras and said they’re innocent,” Wills said after being released without bail from Queens Supreme Court.
When a reporter countered that a number of busted pols actually had said exactly that, Wills, a Democrat, said: “That’s disrespectful.”
“I am not resigning on charges. This is America, people. We are presumed innocent before we are proven guilty,” he said.
“But because I know what I am, where I come from and the color I am, it doesn’t really work like that with you guys. But I am presumed innocent and that’s what we are going with.”

http://nypost.com/2014/05/07/nyc-councilman-ruben-wills-arrested/

NYC Councilman Ruben Wills arrested
By Carl Campanile and Christina Carrega-Woodby
May 7, 2014 | 7:43am

New York Post