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Anti-DeLay group target of IRS audit

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Posted by: JohnnyBz00LS

Posted on Mon, Feb. 27, 2006
Anti-DeLay group target of IRS audit

By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post

WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service recently audited the books of a Texas non-profit group that was critical of campaign spending by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, after receiving a request for the audit from one of DeLay’s allies in the House.

The lawmaker, House Ways and Means Committee member Sam Johnson, R-Texas, was in turn responding to a complaint about the group, Texans for Public Justice, from Barnaby Zall, a Washington lawyer close to DeLay and his fundraising apparatus, according to IRS documents.

Johnson, a member of the subcommittee responsible for oversight of the tax agency, sparked the IRS’ interest by telling IRS Commissioner Mark Everson in a letter dated Aug. 3, 2004, that he had “uncovered some disturbing information” and received complaints of possible tax violations.

Johnson said he was sure the IRS would follow up. “I ask you to report back your findings of each of these investigations directly to me,” he told Everson in the letter, according to a copy obtained by the Washington Post.
The IRS sent two auditors last year to comb the 2003 books of Texans for Public Justice and an affiliated foundation that collected donations for the organization. No tax violations were found, according to a letter the IRS sent the group.

But the circumstances behind the effort – which were uncovered by the group’s director and founder, Craig McDonald, using the Freedom of Information Act – prompted him to allege that the audit was an abuse of the IRS’ mandate. He said there was no evidence of wrongdoing in the complaints.
“This audit was political retaliation by Tom DeLay’s cronies to intimidate us for blowing the whistle on DeLay’s abuses,” McDonald said.

IRS spokesman Terry Lemons said federal law barred him from providing a detailed response. But he said, “The IRS makes its audit decisions based on the law. Political considerations do not play a role. We are an agency of career civil servants,” excluding Everson and the IRS chief counsel.

WOW, speak of trying to "pin the tail on the donkey". Seems as if there is no level too low to which the DeLay supporters will stoop. Pretty pathetic.

Posted by: MonsterMark

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Originally Posted by JohnnyBz00LS

WOW, speak of trying to "pin the tail on the donkey". Seems as if there is no level too low to which the DeLay supporters will stoop. Pretty pathetic.

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