NOM Says IRS has Released Their Tax Returns, Pursues Criminal Charges

Revan · Apr 24, 2012

Well guys NOM recently released info about how IRS released their tax returns to HRC and are asking the government to pursue a criminal charge against the IRS from my understanding.

"The American people are entitled to know how a confidential tax return containing private donor information filed exclusively with the Internal Revenue Service has been given to our political opponents who also happen to be co-chairing President Obama's reelection committee."—Brian Brown, NOM president—

Washington, D.C. — The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) today released documents showing that their confidential U.S. tax return containing private donor information came directly from the Internal Revenue Service and was provided to NOM's political opponents, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). Joe Solmonese, president of the HRC, is a national co-chair of President Obama's reelection campaign.

"The American people are entitled to know how a confidential tax return containing private donor information filed exclusively with the Internal Revenue Service has been given to our political opponents whose leader also happens to be co-chairing President Obama's reelection committee," said NOM President Brian Brown. "It is shocking that a political ally of President Obama's would come to possess and then publicly release a confidential tax return that came directly from the Internal Revenue Service. We demand to know who is responsible for this criminal act and what the Administration is going to do to get to the bottom of it."

On March 30, 2012, the Huffington Post published NOM's confidential 2008 tax return filed with the IRS, which it said came from the Human Rights Campaign. The HRC has said on its own site the documents came from a "whistleblower." However, NOM has determined that the documents came directly from the Internal Revenue Service.

After software removed the layers obscuring the document, it is shown that the document came from the Internal Revenue Service. The top of each page says, ""THIS IS A COPY OF A LIVE RETURN FROM SMIPS. OFFICIAL USE ONLY." On each page of the return is stamped a document ID of "100560209." Only the IRS would have the Form 990 with "Official Use" information.

"Every taxpayer has a right to expect that its confidential tax returns filed with the IRS will not be given to their political enemies," said Brown. "Doing so is a felony. What makes this even more problematic is that the recipient of the confidential tax return is a group headed by President Obama's national campaign co-chair. This is something that one might expect to occur in the Czarist Soviet Union, not the United States of America. We demand that the Treasury Department launch a federal criminal investigation into the IRS and the Human Rights Campaign to bring these criminals to justice."
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Pretty sure what the IRS did was not illegal in this case. On a different note though, this is a blog post by NOM and usually I can comment on their blog posts...but intriguingly I have no ability to do so. So I think NOM is now officially a no-comment state, like I think they actually banned my IP address. Makes me laugh

Emberstone · Apr 24, 2012

weird... cause a couple of US district judges ordered NOM to release these documents, if I remeber correctly. The IRS releasing them were merely following judical orders.

Also, NOM worked during prop 8 to demand for the release of the same types of documents, which the anti-prop 8 side oblidged, and then the pro-prop 8 people start hurrashing and threatening the donors, as we learned in the prop 8 trial.

Zontar · Apr 24, 2012

Even if it was illegal, why should I give a crap about these buffoons? Good for 'em. You get what you give.

Revan · Apr 24, 2012

Very true Ember. It's funny didn't they say our side were the ones harassing? Isn't it amazing the crap they make up just to make them look the victim?

FuryOfFirestorm · Apr 27, 2012

They can dish it, but they can't take it. Boo fucking hoo.

NOM Says IRS has Released Their Tax Returns, Pursues Criminal Charges

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