http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/06/1319590/-Pro-troop-charity-with-close-Republican-ties-accused-of-faking-charity-efforts?detail=email
A ProPublica reporter has uncovered a shocker: It turns out that a large tea party-linked charity that's gotten the endorsement of reams of Republican politicians and media figures may be—try not to act too surprised—very crooked.
[Move America Forward] described the fundraising drive as a rousing success: In less than five weeks, all 800 Marines in a 1st Marine Division battalion nicknamed Geronimo were sent care packages and notes in Afghanistan, it claimed.
But that couldn't have been true.
The Marines of Geronimo weren't even in Afghanistan during Move America Forward's fund drive. Instead, they were deployed more than 3,000 miles away, in Okinawa, Japan. [...]
Last year, Move America Forward even solicited funds by claiming a partnership with Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the largest hospital for wounded service members in the country. No such partnership existed, Defense Department officials say.
Pictures posted by the group of their pro-troop efforts turn out have been skimmed from other corners of the internet, including pictures taken from the websites of other pro-troop charities. And there's a lot more.
Move America Forward is the brainchild of Republican and Tea Party Express co-founder Sal Russo; Russo and his firm have themselves pocketed "about thirty percent" of the charity's expenditures. More problematic, the "charity" seems to have very close ties to Russo's explicitly pro-Republican efforts, sharing office space and, apparently, mailing lists, and for the supposed pro-troop charity that's a no-no:
A ProPublica reporter's father created an email address and signed up for the charity's mailing list on Nov. 21, using the address for nothing else.
At first, a few emails arrived from Move America Forward. Then, on March 20, an email arrived from one of the PACs, the Conservative Campaign Committee, with the subject line, "Sarah Palin Motivating Conservatives to Vote in 2014," asking donors to give money for a "fantastic new TV ad in key swing states." On March 21, an email came from the Tea Party Express.
I'm trying to stop laughing at the stupidity, if you are going to lie which all right wing money beggars seem to be complicit this is the kind of deception that probably drove the IRS to investigate other republican frauds, they protested too much for there not to have been truth in the resulting investigations. note they were whining about there org's and when it was known that liberal org's were investigated too, but each reference they never included them just their crooked org's. what happen to "the other side does it too"?
were these guys on the IRS to be investigated list? again there was good reason to go after those who sought the tax exempt of the 501c.
http://www.irs.gov/Charities-&-Non-Profits/Charitable-Organizations/Exemption-Requirements-Section-501(c)(3)-Organizations
