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IRS Sets Sights on Secret Hollywood Conservative Group
Newsmax ^ | Jan 23, 2014 | Drew MacKenzie

Posted on 01/23/2014 9:20:40 AM PST by KeyLargo

Newsmax IRS Sets Sights on Secret Hollywood Conservative Group Thursday, January 23, 2014 09:28 AM

By: Drew MacKenzie

A conservative group in Hollywood, shrouded in secrecy for fear of a backlash from powerful movie industry liberals, is being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service after applying for tax-exempt status.

Friends of Abe has attempted to stay under the radar and is fiercely determined to protect the identity of its 1,500 members, The New York Times reports.

But now the group has come under the scrutiny of the IRS after the federal agency requested information about its meetings with politicians including 2012 vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, former Michigan Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, and 2012 presidential hopeful Hermain Cain, according to anonymous sources who have inside knowledge of the probe.

The report says the IRS has been investigating Friends of Abe — named after Abraham Lincoln — for two years and has had access to its security-protected website containing all the members' names.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; actors; conservatives; corruption; democrats; fraud; friendsofabe; govtabuse; hollywood; irs; irsoutofcontrol; irsscandals; leftists; mediabias; obama; scandals; taxes; teaparty; tyranny
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1 posted on 01/23/2014 9:20:40 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

If your group is conservative you should not seek 501C3 status. Just gives them a hook to destroy you.


2 posted on 01/23/2014 9:22:39 AM PST by DManA
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To: KeyLargo

IF true, this little act should be traced to OBozo and, the impeachment hearings should begin!!


3 posted on 01/23/2014 9:24:49 AM PST by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: KeyLargo

So Jarrett has access to the members list.Remember her statement about rewarding friends and punishing ememies.


4 posted on 01/23/2014 9:25:21 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: KeyLargo

I’m sure the NSA already knows who its members are.


5 posted on 01/23/2014 9:25:54 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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6 posted on 01/23/2014 9:27:15 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo; GeronL

“ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A MEMBER OF A CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL GROUP?”

Stalinsts lie. ALWAYS.


7 posted on 01/23/2014 9:30:55 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: KeyLargo

Just targeting political opponents. Ho-hum....

..Hey, when is the big game?


8 posted on 01/23/2014 9:32:58 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: KeyLargo

a conservative group in HWood? Wow that is a secret.


9 posted on 01/23/2014 9:34:04 AM PST by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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To: KeyLargo

With the political targeting will come prosecution and imprisonment. In the beginning, the regime will try to take out key individuals that oppose them. We are getting very close to the time where a system of safe-houses and smuggling is needed.


10 posted on 01/23/2014 9:35:26 AM PST by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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To: KeyLargo

Revolt is coming.


11 posted on 01/23/2014 9:35:35 AM PST by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: grumpygresh

Rather, the seeds of a new and second revolt being planted which will in dull time bear fruit.


12 posted on 01/23/2014 9:36:31 AM PST by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: DManA

“If your group is conservative you should not seek 501C3 status. Just gives them a hook to destroy you.”

Which results in them paying taxes on the donations. So, the leftist orgs that are tax exempt can make their dollars go further than the conservative orgs.

Not arguing with you, just expounding on the result.


13 posted on 01/23/2014 9:36:53 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Biggirl

Correction, “due time”.


14 posted on 01/23/2014 9:37:09 AM PST by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: DManA
If your group is conservative you should not seek 501C3 status. Just gives them a hook to destroy you.

All according to plans....

15 posted on 01/23/2014 9:37:25 AM PST by GraceG
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To: KeyLargo
To date NO ONE has been punished for the IRS scandal.

One would think that the targets of this scandal i.e. the elected officials and their supporters that the IRS was going after would be leading the charge against the IRS.

But one would be wrong...
16 posted on 01/23/2014 9:37:32 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: KeyLargo
if anything; this proves, the (Federal) IRS has become the Democrats' Secret Police..
the East German 0'ButtCrack's Secret Police.

17 posted on 01/23/2014 9:37:33 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: Farmer Dean

Any Hollywood actor who does not make contributions to 0bama is on Valerie Jarrett’s hit list. There probably are some actors who despise 0bama but give money to him for “protection.”


18 posted on 01/23/2014 9:38:49 AM PST by forgotten man
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To: KeyLargo
Friends of Abe has attempted to stay under the radar and is fiercely determined to protect the identity of its 1,500 members, The New York Times reports. But now the group has come under the scrutiny of the IRS after the federal agency requested information about its meetings with politicians including 2012 vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, former Michigan Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, and 2012 presidential hopeful Hermain Cain, according to anonymous sources who have inside knowledge of the probe.

PFL

19 posted on 01/23/2014 9:39:42 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: KeyLargo

The IRS already knows everything about friends of Abe,, unless of course, one believes that the NSA is not used to gather intel on internal dissenters.


20 posted on 01/23/2014 9:42:30 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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