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riversedge

(70,242 posts) Wed Nov 23, 2016, 12:53 PM Nov 2016

Fla. charity paid Bannon, other Breitbart employees: report

Source: The Hill

Fla. charity paid Bannon, other Breitbart employees: report
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Donald Trump senior adviser Steve on accepted more than $375,000 in pay over a four-year period from a tax-exempt charity he organized in Florida, according to a new report Wednesday.

An investigation by The Washington Post found that during that four-year period, Bannon's charity also paid $1.3 million to two other writers who were also employed by Breitbart News.

Bannon was executive chairman of Breitbart News when he was collecting a salary from the charity, according to the Post.
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The charity bought $200,000 in advertisements from Breitbart.com during the four-year period, according to publicly available IRS filings cited in the report..........................

Read more: http://thehill.com/media/307342-fla-charity-paid-bannon-other-breitbart-employees-report

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Fla. charity paid Bannon, other Breitbart employees: report (Original Post) riversedge Nov 2016 OP

"charity" Thatyiddishboii Nov 2016 #1

exactly Liberal_in_LA Nov 2016 #18

Why do they bury the name of the "charity" way down in the story? csziggy Nov 2016 #2

Kind of hypocritical when they need a charity for that, when they are the takers themselves. Initech Nov 2016 #4

Republicans have been forming right wing "think tanks" since the Nixon days csziggy Nov 2016 #5

yeah, that is a section of the tax code that puzzles the hell out of me. mopinko Nov 2016 #8

I have been telling people that... IthinkThereforeIAM Nov 2016 #12

And it's financed by the Mercers. trof Nov 2016 #19

They can't help being crooks, can they? Initech Nov 2016 #3

The law-breaking is part of their nature (nt) muriel_volestrangler Nov 2016 #6

He's a total sleazebag. lark Nov 2016 #7

another 501c3 ! 'Political charity' with no financial info posted on their website. Sunlei Nov 2016 #9

I guess the old say is true regarding the Con's camp KewlKat Nov 2016 #10

Cons of a feather flock together. Vinca Nov 2016 #11

Kicking for exposure n/t Tanuki Nov 2016 #13

Lock them up! Lock them up! nt Ilsa Nov 2016 #14

Fraud, plain and simple perdita9 Nov 2016 #15

Money laundering, I think William Seger Nov 2016 #16

Those who voted for Trump thinking he would help them Turbineguy Nov 2016 #17

Thatyiddishboii

(12 posts)

1. "charity"

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 12:55 PM

Nov 2016

ha ha ha

Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)

18. exactly

Reply to Thatyiddishboii (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 10:06 PM

Nov 2016

csziggy

(34,136 posts)

2. Why do they bury the name of the "charity" way down in the story?

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 01:02 PM

Nov 2016

Not until the sixth paragraph is the "charity" named:

Other documents filed with the IRS illustrate a relationship between a conservative research organization called the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) and Breitbart News, a staunch Trump supporter during the campaign and an online publication with ties to the “alt-right" movement.

Damn - they are local to me:

The Government Accountability Institute (GAI) is a conservative nonprofit investigative research organization located in Tallahassee, Florida.

<SNIP>

The stated mission of GAI is to "investigate and expose crony capitalism, misuse of taxpayer monies, and other governmental corruption or malfeasance."[7] According to Bloomberg Businessweek, GAI creates "rigorous, fact-based indictments against major politicians, then partners with mainstream media outlets to disseminate those findings to the broadest audience."[1] Members of GAI's board of directors include Stephen Bannon, Owen Smith, Ron Robinson, and Hunter Lewis.[8]

GAI's research methods include analyzing tax filings, flight logs, and foreign government documents as well as engaging in data-mining on the deep web, which includes the 97% of information on the World Wide Web that isn't indexed by traditional search engines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Accountability_Institute

Initech

(100,081 posts)

4. Kind of hypocritical when they need a charity for that, when they are the takers themselves.

Reply to csziggy (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 01:07 PM

Nov 2016

csziggy

(34,136 posts)

5. Republicans have been forming right wing "think tanks" since the Nixon days

Reply to Initech (Reply #4)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 01:11 PM

Nov 2016

They give them respectable sounding names and then release propaganda that skews the information however they want it. The news companies happily repeat the lies since they are too lazy and cheap to do their own research to compare to the right wing claims.

Declaring these "think tanks" charities allow their billionaire supporters to take deductions the money they would have given them anyway.

mopinko

(70,127 posts)

8. yeah, that is a section of the tax code that puzzles the hell out of me.

Reply to csziggy (Reply #5)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 01:28 PM

Nov 2016

not.

heritage foundation is tax exempt. think on that for a second.

IthinkThereforeIAM

(3,076 posts)

12. I have been telling people that...

Reply to csziggy (Reply #5)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 02:01 PM

Nov 2016

... for 15 years. Thank this mess to Prescott Bush, Sr, who cut the deal to force Ike to put Nixon on his second ticket. Think tanks are half propaganda machines, and their influence as quasi-official status have blinded so many.

trof

(54,256 posts)

19. And it's financed by the Mercers.

Reply to csziggy (Reply #2)

Thu Nov 24, 2016, 12:24 PM

Nov 2016

Initech

(100,081 posts)

3. They can't help being crooks, can they?

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 01:06 PM

Nov 2016

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)

6. The law-breaking is part of their nature (nt)

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 01:13 PM

Nov 2016

lark

(23,105 posts)

7. He's a total sleazebag.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 01:24 PM

Nov 2016

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)

9. another 501c3 ! 'Political charity' with no financial info posted on their website.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 01:30 PM

Nov 2016

KewlKat

(5,624 posts)

10. I guess the old say is true regarding the Con's camp

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 01:43 PM

Nov 2016

charity begins at home!

LOCK THEM ALL UP!

Vinca

(50,278 posts)

11. Cons of a feather flock together.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 01:53 PM

Nov 2016

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)

13. Kicking for exposure n/t

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 02:24 PM

Nov 2016

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)

14. Lock them up! Lock them up! nt

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 02:38 PM

Nov 2016

perdita9

(1,144 posts)

15. Fraud, plain and simple

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 03:30 PM

Nov 2016

Charities get protected tax status by agreeing to a strict set of rules. The biggest one is charitable funds cannot be used to enrich the people who run the charity.

William Seger

(10,779 posts)

16. Money laundering, I think

Reply to perdita9 (Reply #15)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 03:53 PM

Nov 2016

... to hide who is really paying for Breitbart.com. I think it would be hard to get them for fraud, since their charter says they're gonna do "investigative research."

Turbineguy

(37,343 posts)

17. Those who voted for Trump thinking he would help them

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 08:17 PM

Nov 2016

are about to get the fid.

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