Rod Dreher of the New York Post has been keeping tabs on the amended tax forms submitted by Jesse Jackson's Citizenship Education Fund. He's found quite a few fishy items on the fund's amended 1999 IRS Form 990. They resubmitted the form after critics started raising their eyebrows.
What did Dreher find? He found that the CEF had falsely attributed a $15,000 contribution to the New York City Board of Education rather than to a board member of the Securities Industry Association. Another contributor on the CEF's amended list was a businessman who said his company had only donated a fraction of the money CEF claims to have received.
On Sunday, the Chicago Tribune reported that Wells Fargo Bank--which the CEF listed as having given $200,000--has no record of the donation.
That's not all. Dreher telephoned a sampling of the 80 private and corporate donors listed on the CEF's amended form. He asked if their records match CEF's tax filing. Only two companies--Coors Brewing and Compaq--responded by deadline.
A representative of Coors told Dreher that they had indeed given $25,000...but the check was addressed to PUSH for Excellence--a separate Jackson organization! And Compaq says it gave $10,000 to the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, not CEF.
If these companies are telling the truth, then CEF is lying to the IRS. And this is only for 1999--there's no telling how much creative bookkeeping CEF has gotten away with in the past!
Will Jesse Jackson's cherished liberal minority and race warlord status get him off the hook again?
Make no mistake.. you know its true. If this were a conservative organization, they'd be under the media microscope faster than you could say "fuzzy math."
http://www.nypost.com/commentary/29643.htm
What did Dreher find? He found that the CEF had falsely attributed a $15,000 contribution to the New York City Board of Education rather than to a board member of the Securities Industry Association. Another contributor on the CEF's amended list was a businessman who said his company had only donated a fraction of the money CEF claims to have received.
On Sunday, the Chicago Tribune reported that Wells Fargo Bank--which the CEF listed as having given $200,000--has no record of the donation.
That's not all. Dreher telephoned a sampling of the 80 private and corporate donors listed on the CEF's amended form. He asked if their records match CEF's tax filing. Only two companies--Coors Brewing and Compaq--responded by deadline.
A representative of Coors told Dreher that they had indeed given $25,000...but the check was addressed to PUSH for Excellence--a separate Jackson organization! And Compaq says it gave $10,000 to the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, not CEF.
If these companies are telling the truth, then CEF is lying to the IRS. And this is only for 1999--there's no telling how much creative bookkeeping CEF has gotten away with in the past!
Will Jesse Jackson's cherished liberal minority and race warlord status get him off the hook again?
Make no mistake.. you know its true. If this were a conservative organization, they'd be under the media microscope faster than you could say "fuzzy math."
http://www.nypost.com/commentary/29643.htm
