nytimes: Breibart Protégé O'Keefe Wins Nonprofit Status From I.R.S.

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The Internal Revenue Service has granted nonprofit status to the group that brought down two senior executives at NPR and dealt a death blow to the community organizing group Acorn with videos of its employees giving tax advice to people claiming to be a pimp and prostitute.

Project Veritas, a group founded by the videographer James O’Keefe, received the status from the I.R.S. in April, according to documents gathered by The Chronicle of Philanthropy through a Freedom of Information Act request...

Mr. O’Keefe catapulted onto the national stage in 2009 when, armed with a hidden camera and accompanied by a partner dressed as a prostitute, he caught Acorn workers on tape offering advice about how to finance a brothel.

His next turn in the limelight came last year when he and three other men were charged with entering the New Orleans offices of Senator Mary L. Landrieu, a Democrat, with the purpose of committing a felony. They pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor...

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/us/27veritas.html

[Webster Green]

1. What a fucked article in the New York Times.

"Mr. O’Keefe catapulted onto the national stage in 2009 when, armed with a hidden camera and accompanied by a partner dressed as a prostitute, he caught Acorn workers on tape offering advice about how to finance a brothel."


Total bullshit!

[Enthusiast]

8. Exactly.

But the NY Times is a 'liberal' paper. :sarcasm:

[sharesunited]

2. This is not the same thing as tax deductibility for contributions made to them.

[66 dmhlt]

4. That's not what the NY Times Link says:

Employer Identification Number: 27-2894856

PROJECT VERITAS
815 BRAZOS ST., SUITE 701
AUSTIN, TX 78701

Dear Applicant: We are pleased to inform you that upon review of your application for tax exempt status we have determined that you are exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to you are deductible under section 170 of the Code-. You are also qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under section 2055, 2106 or 2522 of the Code.

Source: NY Times article cited provides a Link to documents from a FOIA request:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/96774-project-veritas.html

[sharesunited]

6. Does that mean donations to DU are tax deductible?

[66 dmhlt]

7. Yes - Donations to any 501(c)3 organization are tax deductible

[sharesunited]

9. Turns out DU must not be a 501(c)3.

"Donations Are Not Tax Deductible: Due to the highly political nature of Democratic Underground, we cannot qualify as a non-profit organization. Therefore, donations to Democratic Underground, LLC, are not tax deductible."

So something is seriously wrong when O'Keefe's Veritas organization can qualify and DU cannot.

Because we all know that O'Keefe's is going to be political as all hell.

[pacalo]

3. Get real! "It's not policy work, it's educational work." When O'Keefe's distorted & edited

contexts are directed toward one political party, it earns a "policy" distinction. And there's no educational value when that information is edited to slant & distort information.

Is the IRS in the GOP's smear machine's back pocket, as well? I just read the Rolling Stone article about Roger Ailes, in which the FCC seems to be looking out for Fixed News' interests. Here's an excerpt:

Acting nakedly in Murdoch's interests, the FCC blocked satellite-TV provider EchoStar's $27 billion acquisition of DirecTV in 2002 as being anti-competitive. That cleared the way for News Corp. – which had originally been outbid – to buy control of DirecTV for a mere $6.6 billion.

[Kurovski]

5. He's an entertainer!

See the musical tale of how he was brought down by the FBI for smoking a cigarette.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyVLDCPtVQw