Scott Walter Talks About Arabella with Ed Martin
Not many seem to be aware of the entity known as Arabella Advisors, despite it spending billions of dollars during each election cycle. Whereas names such as Mark Zuckerberg and…
Lois Lerner
Nonprofit Political Activities: Three Rivers of Money
On May 4, 2022, a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance held a hearing on “Laws and Enforcement Governing the Political Activities of Tax Exempt Entities.” Scott Walter,…
Nonprofit Political Activities: “Dark Money”
One of the largest challenges posed by the phrase “dark money” is that there is no clear definition of it. Politicians use the term with no legal precision but only…
Nonprofit Political Activities: Dangers of Donor Disclosure
The story of the harms of donor disclosure in the modern era must highlight harassment of the NAACP. In the 1950s, Alabama attempted to force the NAACP to provide state…
Nonprofit Political Activities: Lois Lerner
Final investigations by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration and the Senate Finance Committee both concluded that the initial assessments of political targeting by the IRS were, in fact,…
Why Won’t the Justice Department Pursue Lois Lerner?
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that it will not pursue a criminal investigation into Lois Lerner, the former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS),…
The IRS Attacks the Tea Party
(PDF here) Summary: Left-wing activists like the Soros-backed ProPublica group helped Lois Lerner’s IRS persecute and harass conservative nonprofits that were seeking tax-exempt status. The great Daniel Webster…