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2015-03-18 Fifth Column

Anti-Netanyahu Nonprofit Forms New Entity After Congress Says It Violated Tax Law

[WashingtonFreeBeacon] A U.S. non-profit that has received State Department funding scrambled last month to create a new legal entity in the aftermath of a congressional letter suggesting its efforts to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may violate tax law, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

The PeaceWorks Network Foundation--a nonprofit linked to Obama campaign figures and also known as OneVoice--was identified in a January letter authored by U.S. politicians as having funneled money to campaign-related activities in the upcoming election despite being incorporated as a 501(c)(3) organization. Such organizations are forbidden from engaging in foreign or domestic political campaign activities.

PeaceWorks moved to create a new organization that could engage in such electoral activities after the letter was issued, new documents obtained by the Free Beacon show. The new organization, named PeaceWorks Action Inc., was incorporated in Delaware in February 2015.

However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
multiple sources familiar with the controversy said the establishment of that new organization would not shield the earlier activities of the original 501(c)(3) organization from U.S. law.

"This isn't difficult. If you do something illegal, like [OneVoice's Israel-based campaign] V15 did, you can't erase that illegality by suddenly deciding to comply with the law," said one D.C. based source familiar with a congressional inquiry into OneVoice's activities, which was first reported by Fox News late last week.

At issue in that inquiry is whether OneVoice received State Department funding for its political activities.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-03-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Wonder how long it took the IRS to issue their non-profit tax exemption? I'm sure the answer will be heavily redacted.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-03-18 00:12|| 2015-03-18 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Nail all of the organization's leadership to the wall. But - that will never happen.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2015-03-18 00:27|| 2015-03-18 00:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Being as there's no conservatives involved, it's just a oopsie.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-03-18 07:54|| 2015-03-18 07:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Is anything going to happen to OneVoice or is that just reserved for conservative groups?

Posted by JohnQC 2015-03-18 10:44|| 2015-03-18 10:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Is anything going to happen to OneVoice or is that just reserved for conservative groups?

Maybe they'll have to apologize to ValJar

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-03-18 10:56|| 2015-03-18 10:56|| Front Page Top

Reference #5. Firing squads or penal battalions if the General Zhukov formula is to be applied. Failure is unacceptable.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-03-18 11:07|| 2015-03-18 11:07|| Front Page Top

#7 See posted article Crocs dining on poacher shocks British tourists on Zambezi sunset cruise for additional suggestions of what they can do with this group.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-03-18 11:57|| 2015-03-18 11:57|| Front Page Top

#8 "Thank you, oh giver of grants most merciful for the opportunity to carry out your will. We have received a letter though, stating that we may be in violation of tax laws, why is this so?"

"Indeed. Succeed, and all will be forgiven."

"As we volunteered to do, we will. However, we have already accepted money from The Department of the State, why did they not advise us on our legal trespass?"

"Because you are suckers. You are now motivated, and we are now insulated."

(joking aside, any penalty for giving money to an organization knowingly operating illegally?)

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-03-18 11:59|| 2015-03-18 11:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Based on their failed efforts in Israel to defeat Bibi, the bus may be dispatched from the WH to put these clowns under it.

Posted by Mugsy Glink 2015-03-18 14:14|| 2015-03-18 14:14|| Front Page Top

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