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| Nader Skirts Campaign Finance Law(s) |
| 2004-06-13 |
| I’m shocked, SHOCKED!! Since October, Ralph Nader has run his campaign for president out of the same downtown Washington offices that through April housed a public charity he created -- an overlap that campaign finance specialists said could run afoul of federal laws. Whoops! Tax law explicitly forbids public charities from aiding political campaigns. Violations can result in a charity losing its tax-exempt status. In addition, campaign law requires candidates to account for all contributions -- including shared office space and resources, down to the use of copying machines, receptionists and telephones. Records show many links between Nader’s campaign and the charity Citizen Works. For example, the charity’s listed president, Theresa Amato, is also Nader’s campaign manager. How convenient! The campaign said in an e-mail to The Washington Post that Amato resigned from the charity in 2003. But in the charity’s most recent corporate filing with the District, in January, Amato listed herself as the charity’s president and registered agent. Huge shell game, even huger article... |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #6 Forbes magazine got dragged into court some years ago while trying to uncover Nader's organisational labyrinth. Wonder if the mainstream media will try. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-06-13 10:58:26 PM |
| #5 Nah, Nader's just some totalitarian fuck who gets his kicks siphoning cash from moral midgets. In other words, he's the epitome of leftists. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-06-13 4:04:00 PM |
| #4 Do not speak of the owl! Muck! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-13 2:10:02 PM |
| #3 haha. very funy. at least em nader is not owl worshiping skull and bonez empire craving like chainey and kerry. so there! :P |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-06-13 1:45:10 PM |
| #2 Go Nader! |
| Posted by: B 2004-06-13 1:25:13 PM |
| #1 Hey, how's the Kucinich campaign going? Anybody know? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-06-13 12:15:03 PM |