Silly questions.
A PARTIAL LIST OF LATINO TAX- EXEMPTS (1) The National Association of Latino Electoral and Appointed Officials, (2) La Raza, (3) Voto Latino, (4) The Congressional Hispanic Caucus, (5) state Hispanic Federations,(6) latino PAC's, etc ,etc, etc (all self-dealing---all pushing free-for-all amnesty)
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The non-profit Hispanic Federation
55 Exchange Place
5th Floor
New York, NY 10005
tel: (212) 233-8955
fax: (212) 233-8996
EIN: 13-3573852
SOURCE http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4997
Established in 1990, the Hispanic Federation is a service-oriented membership organization that works with over 90 Latino health and human services agencies to promote the social, political and economic well-being of the Latino community. The Federation's member agencies work in the areas of education, health, elderly services, child care, HIV/AIDS, housing, immigrant services, arts and culture, and economic development. Each year, these agencies serve millions of the northeast region's most underprivileged and vulnerable Latinos. The Hispanic Federation's mission is to serve the community by building and supporting Latino institutions.
Sucks up about $22 million tax dollars. SALARY $222,231, Lillian Rodriguez Lopez, President ---% of expenses 5.19%
Hispanic Federation honchos--Roberto Ramirez (left) and Luis Miranda--look like they have a BIG secret.The Federation has ties to latino nonprofits---which are corrupt political machines. Read on.
Twi$ted web of political nonprofits in Bronx, NY / By CANDICE M. GIOVE; w/ Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein
EXCLUSIVE (About 90 non-profits are ) organized under the Hispanic Federation, which has taken in $24 million in taxpayer money since 1998. The federation has ties to almost every Hispanic lawmaker in The Bronx.... but primarily benefits two men: political strategist Luis Miranda, who co-founded it and once served as its president, and Roberto Ramirez, a former Bronx Democratic Party boss.
The two men run a private political consulting firm, the MirRam Group. It’s paid by the Hispanic Federation and is hired by politicians who steer taxpayer money to the nonprofit. A NY Post investigation has found:
<><><>* The Hispanic Federation paid MirRam and Miranda Towns, a firm registered to Miranda and his wife, $681,644 between 1999 and 2008 for “consulting,” records show.
<><><>* In 2005, the federation paid MirRam $88,000 to survey Latinos on topics including the mayor’s race. At the same time, MirRam was paid $1.37 million by Fernando Ferrer, then a mayoral candidate.
<><><>* Ramirez and Miranda gave political allies jobs at the nonprofit. Ex-Secretary of State Lorraine Cortez Vazquez, who had been Ramirez’s chief of staff, made more than $180,000 a year there.
<><><>* The Hispanic Federation paid MirRam $33,000 this year to lobby the City Council, records show.
<><><>* The group often pays out small amounts, from $400 to $800 without detailing why on official documents as required by law.
An inside source said these are sometimes payments for favor. "I pay a lady who is bringing latino seniors to a political event. The Hispanic Federation promised to send the lady to the Dominican Republic with her family---- in exchange for rounding up votes.”
An Hispanic Federation spokesman lied---and said the payments were for families of victims of American Airlines Flight 587, which crashed in Queens in 2001, or "other people in need."
Miranda launched the Hispanic Federation in 1990, the year Ramirez won an Assembly seat in Fordham. Ramirez left politics in 2000 and handed the party reins to Assemblyman José Rivera, father of sexpot Naomi, in 2002. Insiders say that if you want political influence in The Bronx, you have to deal with the Hispanic Federation and, by extension, MirRam consultants.
Nonprofits, for instance, pay the Hispanic Federation to do their bookkeeping.
But the blurring of a nonprofit and a consultant group means there’s little or no accountability, said the Hispanic Federation insider. “...helping the Little League to get bats or gloves . . . the ends justify the means. But giving extra money to a senior center because they delivered people to a [political] event, it’s a different story.”
A federation spokesman called the allegations “simply untrue,” saying it only provides funds for those in need of disaster relief. As for payments to MirRam, the group noted that Miranda was no longer its president and MirRam is “arguably the top Latino lobbying and strategic consulting firm in our city.”