Did a Group Financed by Exxon Prompt IRS to Audit Greenpeace? (WSJ)

[struggle4progress]

by Steve Stecklow, The Wall Street Journal
March 21st, 2006

Two and a half years ago, Public Interest Watch, a self-described watchdog of nonprofit groups, wrote to the Internal Revenue Service urging the agency to audit Greenpeace and accusing the environmental group of money laundering and other crimes.

Last September, the IRS began a months-long audit of the U.S. arm of Greenpeace, known for steering its boats in the way of whaling ships and oil tankers. This month, Greenpeace says, it received notice from the IRS that the group "continues to qualify for exemption from federal income tax" as a nonprofit entity.

Greenpeace says an IRS auditor told it that the PIW letter triggered the audit. The IRS won't say how it decided to audit Greenpeace.

What is clear is where PIW has gotten a lot of its funding: Exxon Mobil Corp., the giant oil company that has long been a target of Greenpeace protests. <snip>

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13407

[Untermonkey]

1. I find this shocking!

/sarcasm

[JohnWxy]

2. So, Exxon-Mobil guides Bush's Government in more than just Foreign Policy