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Texas Nonprofit Is Cleared After GOP-Prompted Audit
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Feb 27, 2006 05:04pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Monday, February 27, 2006 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Group Says Probe Was 'Political Retaliation' by DeLay Allies
By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 27, 2006; Page A03
The Internal Revenue Service recently audited the books of a Texas nonprofit group that was critical of campaign spending by former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) after receiving a request for the audit from one of DeLay's political allies in the House.
The lawmaker, House Ways and Means Committee member Sam Johnson (R-Tex.), was in turn responding to a complaint about the group, Texans for Public Justice, from Barnaby W. 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's interest by telling IRS Commissioner Mark W. 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. |
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