Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Did Grover Norquist commit tax fraud?

Grover Norquist was deeply involved in the movement of money from the Abramoff client, eLottery, through Norquist's "Americans for Tax Reform" to the Faith and Family Alliance in Virginia Beach, and then to the Ralph Reed lobbying firm, Century Strategies.

Stuart Levine analyzes the transfers and explains why Norquist could be in real trouble.

The Faith and Family Alliance appears to be a shell organization which failed to report the money received from ATR. If Norquist knew that the money was unlikely to be reported, he probably chose that organization to send the money through in order to keep the IRS from knowing what the source of the money was. This is, itself, a serious crime.

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