Posted on 08/15/2006 12:58:22 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
A Texas firm that manages hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps says it has not been authorized to divulge a detailed accounting of the funds, despite assurances by the MCDC's top official that it would do so.
Maureen E. Otis -- president of American Caging Inc. in Stafford, Texas, an agency hired to collect, deposit and disburse donations to the civilian border-patrol group -- told The Washington Times that neither MCDC President Chris Simcox nor the group's board of directors had given her permission to "disclose any numbers."
Mr. Simcox, who has been criticized by current and former MCDC members for a lack of leadership and financial accountability, had referred The Times to Mrs. Otis, saying she could "tell you everything" to clear up the concerns.
Instead, Mrs. Otis issued a statement saying only that all Minuteman donations have been "securely collected, counted and deposited" in MCDC bank accounts.
Telephone calls to Mr. Simcox in Phoenix, where he reportedly is on paternity leave, were routed to Minuteman spokeswoman Connie Hair in Virginia, who said the organization was not going to release "any unaudited numbers." She said that an audit will be completed in November and that any release of figures prior to that "is just not going to happen......."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
What discrepencies? The reports are provided for 2005 and are clean. 2006 isn't even over yet, and you are demanding they provide reports? BWAHAHAHA!
"American Caging" ROTFLMAO. Who better to deal with illegals?
Is there a reason you're unwilling/unable to disclose that actual names of "your" candidates?
If you're going to use electoral success as a justification for your positions, it strikes me as somewhat less than honest to keep the actual facts of these races a mystery.
Go Graf Go
Go Gilchrist Go
Go Tancredo Go
Go Pat Go
The little bumbleheads are so puffed up with their own sorry, little selves that no recognizable apology will ever be seen. They'll either just not report it or simultaneously justify their own idiocy for jumping on the bandwagon. They just have to keep up appearances for anyone that might bring them mucho deniro...
"B", it would appear to me. Add to that, (as I understand the reports), the funds collected for building fence have been placed in separate accounts, totally apart from MCDC funds, to be used only for that purpose. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Thanks for exhibiting your ignorance, and for bumping the thread. Every FReeper should see how badly Simcox has been misrepresented by the Times and his other critics.
I have no reason to reveal to you, an obvious opponent of myself and of the conservative candidates I support, anything I don't want to reveal. The only reason I even brought it up on this thread was to reveal the ignorance and false statements of another one of those critics.
Thank you for your common sense posts on this thread.
You nailed it.
Sounds familiar.
Since the lead article on this thread is now so obviously bogus, I think it only right that we keep its refutation front and center. So, forgive me for continuing to post the report of the independent auditor. I think Jim can probably spare the bandwidth for something so important:
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Form 990, Informational Return for Not for Profit Organizations, for calendar year 2005 has been completed and submitted to the IRS.
Link to 990: http://www.minutemanhq.com/~video/2005_990.pdf
Given the egregiously false or erroneous reporting—as well as some outright malicious lies about the status of MCDC finances that this organization has endured—the Board has decided that this year and this year only MCDC will emulate publicly-traded company standards and release MCDC’s first year audited financial statements, in addition to the normal 990 documentation.
Link to independent audit:
http://www.minutemanhq.com/~video/MCDC_2005_FS.pdf
We note that we are releasing our organizational IRS Form 990 and the additional audited financial statements on deadline, as promised, when promised. The independent auditors’ report from Salmon Beach and Associates is a clean finding, and attached to the audited financial statements.
Our total income was $418,493.00.
$112,500.00 of income was in unrestricted grants from Declaration Alliance.
Our Total Expenditures were $449,667.00
Our Program Services were $280,920.00 which was 62.47% of our total expenditures.
Our Management and General Expenses were $23,348.00 which was 5.19% of our total expenditures.
Our Fundraising Expenses were $145,399.00 which was 32.34% of our total expenditures.
All these expenses paid were for both goods and services—including product hard costs, consulting fees, and expenditures for professional materials and services rendered.
Summary
The overall financial activity for the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps for calendar year 2005 was judged by independent auditors to be absolutely clean with no derogatory findings.
62.47% to programs
5.19% to management/administration
32.34% to fundraising
The percentage allocations of expenditures to delivery of programs and services on monies donated are much better than most first-year startup national organizations. The expenditures breakdown on the 2005 calendar year IRS Form 990 on page 13 are itemized into categories, which are summed up as follows:
BANK CHARGES: Self explanatory
CAGING FEES: Amount charged for processing contributions
CREDIT CARD FEES: Fees charged for processing credit card contributions
DONATION EXPENSES: Expenditure to another non-profit for services assisting with background checks
EDUCATION EXPENSES: Production of educational materials/pamphlets
FIELD SUPPLIES: Supplies required for field operations other than equipment.
FUEL EXPENSE: Reimbursement for fuel costs such as generator fuel for border operations
FUNDRAISING EXPENSES: Hard costs for fundraising event expenditures.
GARBAGE REMOVAL: Expense incurred in trash removal from the border.
HALL RENTAL: Rental for field headquarters during border operations.
LIST RENTAL EXPENSES: Payment for list rental to other organizations for education, mobilization and fundraising purposes
LODGING: Lodging reimbursement for field operations
MEALS: Meals reimbursement for field operations
OFFICE EXPENSES: Overhead for Arizona headquarters
OPERATIONAL EXPENSES: Border field operational expenses
PROGRAM & MANAGEMENT EXPENSES: Education, training, mobilization and fundraising programs, services and management for border operations which includes expenseable field equipment
PROGRAM SERVICES: Miscellaneous field expenses not falling under other categories
TELEMARKETING: Fundraising
UTILITIES: Power expenses at field office for border operations
VOLUNTEER BACKGROUND CHECK: Monies spent on background checks for those volunteers who did not have a valid concealed carry permit which would necessitate a background check for issues such as violent felony convictions.
FORM 990, PART IV, LINE 57
LAND BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT:
Machinery and capital equipment for border operations
Bogus and slanderous.
But, having watched your posts in the past, I'm not surprised.
I'm sorry, EV, but you do, in fact, have several reasons to disclose "your" candidates if you continue to use their electoral success as evidence demonstrating the merits of your own positions.
I would also argue that if you do have a relationship with certain politicians, to the point of referencing them as "your" candidates, it is fundamentally dishonest to not disclose the actual names and your actual positions in their campaigns.
If you do not with to mingle your postings here at FR with your professional life as a paid political consultant, I suggest you cease using vague references to the successes of "your" candidates as proof positive of your particular brand of conservatism.
Interesting.
This thread is not about me. It is about the false and malicious stories that were run about Simcox and his organization in recent months, exemplified by this story in the Washington Times, about the FR hostiles who demonstrated their perfidy on this very thread and others, and about the independenct auditor's conclusions that prove that perfidy.
Do you believe that Simcox's critics owe him an apology?
Please see posts 186-210.
Of course not! LOL! It never was!
You are a piece of work. LOL
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