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Thomas H. Kean, Chair Lee H. Hamilton, Vice Chair National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States 301 7th Street, SW Room 5125 Washington, DC 20407 Dear Messrs. Kean and Hamilton: Landmark Legal Foundation, a national public interest law firm that specializes in government accountability, formally requests that the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States ("Commission") request that Ms. Jamie S. Gorelick step aside as a Commission member. Ms. Gorelick is hopelessly conflicted in her role as a Commission member, given the numerous issues about which she has knowledge resulting from her service as Deputy Attorney...

<p>WASHINGTON — A teachers union that spends heavily to support political candidates is acknowledging for the first time that the government is investigating whether all its expenditures have been reported.</p> <p>National Education Association (search) general counsel Bob Chanin confirmed the Labor Department investigation began in April 2002, the same month a conservative law firm complained to the Bush administration that millions of dollars in political spending went unreported.</p>

Prosecutors rebuked in Limbaugh inquiry By Peter Franceschina Staff Writer January 29, 2004 The general counsel for the Florida Attorney General's Office criticized Palm Beach County prosecutors Wednesday, asserting they mischaracterized the office's input into the prosecutors' decision to release documents last week in the Rush Limbaugh investigation. The letter gave fresh ammunition to Limbaugh and his attorney Roy Black in their attacks against Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer for his handling of the prescription drug investigation. Also on Wednesday, a conservative public-interest law firm that supports Limbaugh filed ethics complaints with The Florida Bar against Krischer and...

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Limbaugh's pill use not extraordinary, lawyer says BY DANIEL de VISE ddevise@herald.com Rush Limbaugh's attorney mounted an offensive Monday, accusing Palm Beach County prosecutors of smear tactics and likening his client to any ordinary American with chronic pain. ''This nation is full of people who take medication every day and will do so for the rest of their lives,'' said Roy Black, speaking in a news conference in Miami. Discussing the prescription-drug abuse allegations in unprecedented detail, Black reasoned that the quantity of medicine Limbaugh is accused of ingesting -- 1,800 pills in 210 days -- works out to roughly...

Levin's Landmark Files Suit, Seeks Source of Rush LeaksLandmark Legal Foundation today filed a freedom of information request with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office (SAO) seeking any and all information of communications to or from the SAO or any of its employees and outside individuals or groups relating to Rush Limbaugh. Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark, stated: "We want to know why Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer waited 10 months before investigating allegations against Rush Limbaugh – only after stories appeared in the National Enquirer. We're concerned that once the story became public, Mr. Krischer,...

Landmark Legal Foundation today filed a freedom of information request with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office (SAO) seeking any and all information of communications to or from the SAO or any of its employees and outside individuals or groups relating to Rush Limbaugh. Mark R. Levin, President of Landmark, stated: "We want to know why Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer waited 10-months before investigating allegations against Rush Limbaugh -- only after stories appeared in the National Enquirer. We're concerned that once the story became public, Mr. Krischer, an elected prosecutor, may have been pressured to use...

This is an excerpt Conservative public-interest law firm suggests 'journalist shopping,' seeks records from State Attorney's Office. A conservative public-interest law firm is seeking records from the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office, in an attempt to determine if the office has planted negative stories in the media about an investigation into Rush Limbaugh.

LANDMARK LEGAL FOUNDATION January 15, 2004 Mr. Barry Krischer State Attorney Palm Beach County 401 North Dixie Highway West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 Mr. Steve Yeaw Custodian of Records Palm Beach County 401 North Dixie Highway West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 BY FIRST CLASS MAIL AND FACSIMILE Re: Request for Expedited Production of Public Records Dear Messrs. Krischer and Yeaw: This is a request for public records pursuant to the Florida Public Records Act, Ch. 119, Florida Statutes. This request seeks all public records in the custody of the State Attorney's Office ("SAO") for the County of Palm Beach, or...

Landmark Legal Foundation Seeks Documents from Palm Beach Prosecutor [ 2004-01-15 ] HERNDON, Va., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Landmark Legal Foundation today filed a freedom of information request with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office (SAO) seeking any and all information of communications to or from the SAO or any of its employees and outside individuals or groups relating to Rush Limbaugh. Mark R. Levin, President of Landmark, stated: "We want to know why Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer waited 10-months before investigating allegations against Rush Limbaugh -- only after stories appeared in the National Enquirer. We're...

The nation's largest teachers' union may soon come to regret the educational-policy buzzwords "accountability" and "testing." The Internal Revenue Service is currently auditing the National Education Association and students of the NEA's political practices are betting that the powerful union's "new math" approach to its returns will flunk under long-overdue examination. A convincing stack of documents collected by the Landmark Legal Foundation reveals that for the past ten years the millions of tax-exempt funds that the 2.7-million-member union spends on political activity has wound up amounting to "zero" on its tax returns. "The IRS is potentially in the position, if...

12/14/00 1:05 p.m. What We Have Wrought The costs of winning. By Mark R. Levin, president, Landmark Legal Foundation oday's Washington Post, in an article titled "Court May Have Mapped New Territory," reports that "The Supreme Court's ruling in Bush v. Gore could have implications well beyond this year's presidential election, expanding the constitutional guarantee of equal protection of the laws in a way that — if the court sticks to its analysis — could significantly increase the federal role in state election law disputes. By holding that the equal-protection clause can be applied to the way votes are counted,...

<p>Throughout the past decade, the National Education Association (NEA), the nation's largest teachers' union, has spent tens of millions of dollars from members' tax-exempt dues fighting the Democratic Party's political battles and promoting the election of Democrats. As the Landmark Legal Foundation, a public-interest law firm, has argued in complaints filed with the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Labor, these NEA expenditures, which are above and beyond the legal contributions from the union's political action committee, have been spent in violation of several federal laws.</p>

A legal group has filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Justice Department alleging the nation's largest teacher's union has failed to file proper federal reporting and tax statements regarding its political activity. The Landmark Legal Foundation, which specializes in constitutional issues, said the National Education Association, or NEA, "has flagrantly ignored its tax obligations." "We have given the IRS and the Justice Department a step by step roadmap to investigate the NEA and, where warranted, pursue criminal charges," said LLF's president, Mark Levin. The legal group points out the NEA is "required to report –...

WASHINGTON - The government should start a criminal investigation into the nation's largest teachers union to see whether the organization improperly used dues money to influence elections, a conservative law firm says. The National Education Association denied any wrongdoing. Landmark Legal Foundation said Thursday it reviewed thousands of pages of NEA records documenting political activities that were not reported to the government — and should have triggered tax payments. The complaints filed with the Internal Revenue Service (news - web sites) and Justice Department (news - web sites) alleged the union spent tens of millions of dollars from member tax-exempt...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A conservative law firm Thursday asked the government for a criminal investigation of the largest teachers union to determine whether the organization evaded paying taxes on money spent for political activities. Landmark Legal Foundation said it reviewed thousands of pages of National Education Association records documenting political activities that should have triggered tax payments. The complaints to the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department alleged the union spent tens of millions of dollars, from member tax-exempt dues, on political expenditures and other activities that were not reported as required. Richard Wilkof, an NEA attorney, said, "In the...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4, 2003 CONTACT: Eric Christensen (703) 689-2370 (703) 689-2373 (fax) info@landmarklegal.org www.landmarklegal.org (HERNDON, VA)…Landmark Legal Foundation, the leading authority on the political activities of the nation’s teachers unions, today has formally requested that the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the Criminal and Tax Divisions of the U.S. Department of Justice take criminal action against the National Education Association (NEA) for violating federal reporting and tax requirements. Landmark has examined thousands of pages of NEA internal strategic planning and budgetary documents, tax returns and other materials that prove that the union has...

It should be payback time for the New York Times' inflicting its deceitful liberal pretentiousness upon America. Here's a suggestion for a conservative law firm such as the Landmark Legal Foundation or the Washington Legal Foundation: With one or more disgruntled subscribers, initiate a class-action suit against the New York Times for willful negligence regarding Jayson Blair’s journalistic inventions. Blair wrote at least 60 such stories. There is abundant evidence that Blair’s editors were negligent in detecting or acting upon his fraudulent behavior. The suit should therefore demand that a pro-rated refund be paid to all New York Times subscribers...

<p>As much as one-third of the tax-exempt National Education Association's yearly $271 million income goes toward politically related activities, according to union documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service.</p> <p>The documents show that the 2.7 million-member teacher's union spends millions annually to field what one critic calls an "army of campaign workers," while maintaining that it spends nothing on politics.</p>