The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate a charity operated by Herman Cain?s chief of staff Mark Block after reports that it spent over $40,000 of tax-exempt donations to pay for private jets, travel, and computers for Cain?s presidential bid.
The request follows a story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story reported that Prosperity USA?s financial records show that the charity expected to get reimbursed for those expenses. Tax-exempt charities are prohibited from intervening in the political campaign for any candidate for public office, no matter the cost.
This would not be the first time that Block was in trouble with campaign finance laws. Block was previous fined and barred for three years from political campaigns in Wisconsin after an election board investigation into illegal coordination between a campaign he led and a non-profit group. Block had led the Wisconsin arm of the David Koch?s ?Americans for Prosperity? where he was dogged by allegations of vote caging in the state.
The reason charities, organized as 501(c)(3) organizations are offered tax-free donations is so that they can use donations to facilitate some social good, not funnel money to political campaigns. Yet here is another example of the Cain campaign playing fast and lose with the law. And with his close ties to the Koch brothers, should Cain actually win the nomination we can expect this disregard for the law will only be amplified.
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Source: http://www.care2.com/causes/campaign-finance-questions-still-haunt-cain-campaign.html
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