NRA lied about donations from Russians, now Mnuchin says they will not have to report “dark money”
Jul 17, 2018 17:09:34 #
ll these many Russian connections to Trump's campaign and WH just keep growing and getting curiouser and curiouser...and scary. It seems--after this latest move by the Treasury Department, the same day another Russian indicted, this one with close ties to the NRA—if there is a “deep state” it is Right operatives working with Russia. And after seeing Trump's disgraceful performance at the Helsinki presser, this seems actually likely.
Politically active non-profits, like the NRA, would no longer be required to disclose their donors to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The news comes the same day that an indictment was unsealed against Russian national Mariia Butina, a gun advocate and former American University graduate student. According to the Department of Justice, Butina used the NRA to “exploit personal connections with U.S. persons having influence in American politics, who were in positions to advance the interests of the Russian Federation.”
Butina allegedly spent years courting top NRA officials, and worked with former Russian Senator Alexander Torshin, who is wanted on money-laundering charges by the Spanish authorities.
“She appeared to have access to the NRA leadership,” former federal prosecutor Renato Mar**tti told the Daily Beast. “If I represented the NRA, this would be a very alarming development.”
The NRA’s financial ties to the Trump campaign and Russian donors are also being scrutinized by the Federal E******n Commission (FED). The organization initially claimed to have only received ONE CONTRIBUTION FROM A RUSSIAN DONOR, but it later admitted that it had actually ACCEPTED CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MORE THAN TWO DOZEN RUSSIAN DONORS. The NRA donated over $30 million to the Trump campaign, but the Mariia Butina revelations, coupled with FEC’s investigation, raise serious questions about where that money came from and how it was used.
https://thinkprogress.org/dark-money-nonprofit-political-donors-protect-identities-badf056b4f54/
Politically active non-profits, like the NRA, would no longer be required to disclose their donors to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The news comes the same day that an indictment was unsealed against Russian national Mariia Butina, a gun advocate and former American University graduate student. According to the Department of Justice, Butina used the NRA to “exploit personal connections with U.S. persons having influence in American politics, who were in positions to advance the interests of the Russian Federation.”
Butina allegedly spent years courting top NRA officials, and worked with former Russian Senator Alexander Torshin, who is wanted on money-laundering charges by the Spanish authorities.
“She appeared to have access to the NRA leadership,” former federal prosecutor Renato Mar**tti told the Daily Beast. “If I represented the NRA, this would be a very alarming development.”
The NRA’s financial ties to the Trump campaign and Russian donors are also being scrutinized by the Federal E******n Commission (FED). The organization initially claimed to have only received ONE CONTRIBUTION FROM A RUSSIAN DONOR, but it later admitted that it had actually ACCEPTED CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MORE THAN TWO DOZEN RUSSIAN DONORS. The NRA donated over $30 million to the Trump campaign, but the Mariia Butina revelations, coupled with FEC’s investigation, raise serious questions about where that money came from and how it was used.
https://thinkprogress.org/dark-money-nonprofit-political-donors-protect-identities-badf056b4f54/
Jul 17, 2018 18:59:58 #
time to take the NRA tax exempt status away.
quote=rumitoid]ll these many Russian connections to Trump's campaign and WH just keep growing and getting curiouser and curiouser...and scary. It seems--after this latest move by the Treasury Department, the same day another Russian indicted, this one with close ties to the NRA—if there is a “deep state” it is Right operatives working with Russia. And after seeing Trump's disgraceful performance at the Helsinki presser, this seems actually likely.
Politically active non-profits, like the NRA, would no longer be required to disclose their donors to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The news comes the same day that an indictment was unsealed against Russian national Mariia Butina, a gun advocate and former American University graduate student. According to the Department of Justice, Butina used the NRA to “exploit personal connections with U.S. persons having influence in American politics, who were in positions to advance the interests of the Russian Federation.”
Butina allegedly spent years courting top NRA officials, and worked with former Russian Senator Alexander Torshin, who is wanted on money-laundering charges by the Spanish authorities.
“She appeared to have access to the NRA leadership,” former federal prosecutor Renato Mar**tti told the Daily Beast. “If I represented the NRA, this would be a very alarming development.”
The NRA’s financial ties to the Trump campaign and Russian donors are also being scrutinized by the Federal E******n Commission (FED). The organization initially claimed to have only received ONE CONTRIBUTION FROM A RUSSIAN DONOR, but it later admitted that it had actually ACCEPTED CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MORE THAN TWO DOZEN RUSSIAN DONORS. The NRA donated over $30 million to the Trump campaign, but the Mariia Butina revelations, coupled with FEC’s investigation, raise serious questions about where that money came from and how it was used.
https://thinkprogress.org/dark-money-nonprofit-political-donors-protect-identities-badf056b4f54/[/quote]
quote=rumitoid]ll these many Russian connections to Trump's campaign and WH just keep growing and getting curiouser and curiouser...and scary. It seems--after this latest move by the Treasury Department, the same day another Russian indicted, this one with close ties to the NRA—if there is a “deep state” it is Right operatives working with Russia. And after seeing Trump's disgraceful performance at the Helsinki presser, this seems actually likely.
Politically active non-profits, like the NRA, would no longer be required to disclose their donors to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The news comes the same day that an indictment was unsealed against Russian national Mariia Butina, a gun advocate and former American University graduate student. According to the Department of Justice, Butina used the NRA to “exploit personal connections with U.S. persons having influence in American politics, who were in positions to advance the interests of the Russian Federation.”
Butina allegedly spent years courting top NRA officials, and worked with former Russian Senator Alexander Torshin, who is wanted on money-laundering charges by the Spanish authorities.
“She appeared to have access to the NRA leadership,” former federal prosecutor Renato Mar**tti told the Daily Beast. “If I represented the NRA, this would be a very alarming development.”
The NRA’s financial ties to the Trump campaign and Russian donors are also being scrutinized by the Federal E******n Commission (FED). The organization initially claimed to have only received ONE CONTRIBUTION FROM A RUSSIAN DONOR, but it later admitted that it had actually ACCEPTED CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MORE THAN TWO DOZEN RUSSIAN DONORS. The NRA donated over $30 million to the Trump campaign, but the Mariia Butina revelations, coupled with FEC’s investigation, raise serious questions about where that money came from and how it was used.
https://thinkprogress.org/dark-money-nonprofit-political-donors-protect-identities-badf056b4f54/[/quote]
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