Watchdog group files complaint with IRS against Roy Moore-connected foundation (al.com)

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Posted on September 22, 2017 at 6:00 AM



By Howard Koplowitz

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A nonpartisan election law watchdog group filed a complaint Thursday with the IRS against a Roy Moore-connected foundation, calling on the agency to investigate what it called the charity's apparent violations of its tax-exempt status.

The D.C.-based Campaign Legal Center urged the IRS to determine whether to revoke the Foundation for Moral Law's tax-exempt status or levy penalties against the charity after claiming it used its social media pages and newsletters to promote Moore's candidacy. The foundation's president is Moore's wife, Kayla Moore.

Charities with tax-exempt status are barred from engaging in political activity. AL.com reported last month that the foundation shared and posted to Facebook endorsements Moore received and articles favorable to his candidacy. Some of those posts were later scrubbed from the foundation's Facebook page, but the Campaign Legal Center sent screenshots of the social media activity in its complaint to the IRS.

"The Foundation for Moral Law has demonstrated a pattern of using charitable resources to promote Roy Moore's run for Senate," said Adav Noti, senior director, trial litigation and strategy at Campaign Legal Center, in a statement. "The law is clear that charities cannot promote or oppose candidates, and it is surprising that a self-described legal organization would disregard the well-established prohibition on charitable political activity."
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Theocrat. Activist judge. Also a tax cheat ?

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