Posted on 10/13/2008 5:08:05 PM PDT by Blue Collar Republican
In an expected victory this week the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) granted the Minuteman Project, Inc. a 501 (C) (4) non-profit tax exempt designation, that organization’s president, Jim Gilchrist, announced today.
After a three-year review of the organization Gilchrist founded in 2004 the IRS concluded that there were no improprieties or irregularities that would prevent Gilchrist or his Minuteman Project organization from receiving the approval.
The approval concluded a long application process and came as what Minuteman legal counsel at Gordon & Rees law firm states “a great victory for Jim Gilchrist and the Minuteman Project, Inc. The non-profit status is retroactive back to May 5, 2005, the date Gilchrist originally incorporated the Minuteman Project, Inc. in Delaware.”
“The I.R.S. recognized the legal authority of only one director and one officer,” Gilchrist said.
Gilchrist holds all the offices and is the sole and only director with corporate authority, the group’s legal counsel explained.
Gilchrist has been under repeated attack for the past two years by disgruntled former volunteers who, he said, have relentlessly attempted to hijack and plunder an activist organization he created over four years ago.
“I think their goal was to get access to my organization’s public donations by whatever means it would take them to do that, including making false claims to the public that I used my organization to conduct ‘criminal activities’,” Gilchrist said.
“Would the IRS approve a person that they are investigating? Never;” stated Stephen Eichler, Executive Director of the Minuteman Project. “There can be numerous members of an advisory board of directors,” he continued, “but there is only one with authority and that has always been Jim Gilchrist. Even the most powerful tax authority in the country recognizes that.”
“We have worked long and hard hours for this approval and were delighted when we received it just a few days ago. Now, Mr. Gilchrist can aggressively move forward into the immigration law enforcement advocacy business that has been put on hold for so long because of all the organizational infighting.” said Carol Schaner, LLM, Minuteman’s lead corporate tax counsel with the law firm of Gordon & Rees, LLP in Newport Beach, Ca. “The approval has been long overdue. Today our confidence in the executive branch has been reassured.”
Does this mean they can get 120 billion in taxpayer dollars?
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