Washington Post = America’s People’s Daily.
Project Veritas might be in the right. He might’ve overstepped and allowed power to corrupt. I am not sure Project Veritas will survive without him. Judicial Watch survived but I think that’s an outlier.
“THERE IS NO PROJECT VERITAS WITHOUT THE IRS,”
There no longer is a Project Veritas- Period. What ever remains for a short time will be tainted by the left.
Without O’Keefe, Project Veritas is no longer a “right-wing” group....
From your thread directly above this one....
“In a statement released later Monday, the group’s board of directors said it had uncovered “financial malfeasance” and accused O’Keefe of spending “an excessive amount of donor funds in the last three years on personal luxuries.”
According to the group, those included “$14,000 on a charter flight to meet someone to fix his boat under the guise of meeting with a donor”; $60,000 in losses from dance events; more than $150,000 “in Black Cars in the last 18 months”; and others.”
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First I’ve heard of this.
Bob Jones lost their tax-exempt status. Better to lose the status and some donations than to compromise the mission or lose O’Keefe. Project Veritas is MUCH less political than 501c3s like the SPLC and ACLU. Any removal of status can be challenged.
I guess the stolen sandwich and the $12.6K “wedding venue” and going in person instead of Zoom, and rentals instead of Uber wasn’t strong enough tea.
O’Keefe must live REALLY clean, because they haven’t even tried to go all Brett Kavanaugh on him yet.
Oh, B.S.! O’Keefe went against Pfizer, and the Board got members received the warnings and acted to save the narrative that their masters dictated. Years from now we will finally find out how much money changed hands for their betrayal.
The Radical Marxist Media is pouncing
Left wing 501c3s do whatever the hell they want
Bullshit. Look at the list of 503c organizations that are explicitly democrat. And he was not partisan. He just exposed lies and coverups. Anyway, he needs to dump the 503c idea. Just pay the taxes and do what you please.
Blm is one.
“BLM, like all organizations claiming to be charities and therefore tax-exempt, is required to release their 990 forms to the public when requested.
“Tax-exempt organizations, nonexempt charitable trusts, and section 527 political organizations file Form 990 to provide the IRS with the information required by section 6033,” the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) says on its website.
Cullors also says that the law which requires charities to disclose finances and activities actually endangers activists and also claims in some instances the information is being “weaponized” against them.
This is, like, deeply unsafe. This is literally being weaponized against us, against the people we work with,” Cullors claims. “People’s morale in an organization is so important,” she said. “But if their organization and the people in it are being attacked and scrutinized at everything they do, that leads to deep burnout. That leads to deep, like, resistance and trauma.
The BLM co-founder’s comments come just days after New York Magazine reported BLM “secretly bought” the $6 million home in 2020, leading to critics and allies alike questioning where the organization’s funds have gone, the magazine said.”
He should run for office.
The restriction in fact is on the IRS.
The freedom runs in favor of the entity not taxed, is NOT at the whim of the IRS, and is NOT perpetually a hair’s-breadth away from disappearing. It’s the IRS that should be living in fear of overreaching, NOT the entity not taxed living in fear of an IRS getting up on the wrong side of the bed on a given morning in the future and arbitrarily or capriciously eliminating some kind of narrow or ephemeral exception/exemption.
In that case, there's a lot of churches that need taxing.
So a few thoughts, and I have far more experience in non-profit governance, including with ministries and conservative organizations, than I wish I had. Because probably 75% of that experience was negative.
But a few random thoughts:
1) non-profit might not be a good business organizaiton for Project Veritas. They want to raise money, and this is how it’s done in the US. But the problem is that non-profits are a creation of the (disgusting) IRC. And there are rules. You have to comply, and it is the board’s job to make sure the organization remains in compliance.
2) visionary founders don’t actually work well with boards, in my experience. They understandably want to be solely in charge, because, after all....they are the one who charged the hill, took the shots in the chest, and they created the whole organization/movement, when no one else woudl or could. It seems (understandably) upside down that they would report to and be subject to a board. In their mind, the board is simply their help....and usually their fundraisers. But the problem is, that’s not how a not for profit works. It is also often the case that visionary founders are not good CEOs of a going concern. Different skill set. (And one of those skillls is ....reporting to a BOD).
3) The mission of PV is what matters. From the board’s perspective, they are trying to save the mission because they are in charge of the organization. Their statement is pretty sobering in that regard. Yet, as many here, and elsewhere have pointed out....there is no PV without James. That strikes me as likely true. So in his mind, he’s ALSO trying to save the project - and he thinks the BOD is basically standing in is way and interfering. (I’ve also encountered many a founder who gets irate that he/she shouldn’t spend on whatever they want...even luxury spending...because after all, dammit, they are out in front taking the shots to the chest. From a human perspective, I sort of agree with that. From a non-profit governance perspective, that’s a non-starter).
So how does PV continue? I think it has to continue basically as a crowd-funded FOR PROFIT which is a sole proprietorship of James O’Keefe. Sort of a soft subscription....if you like what he’s doing, then....you pay. Then his sole properietorship pays taxes, and does whatever the heck he wants with the money that rolls in. If donors/subscribers want more accountability, then they can take to social media and call for it. Or stop subscribing. But that’s their only recourse.
I think this is all just a mess.
I think James is awesome and like it was said earlier today, he’s a national treasure. But what he does and who he is is incompatible with non-profit governance. And in that regard, I feel sorry for the board. They were put into an impossible situation.
Here’s to hoping that the good work continues.
The IRS came calling with what and to whom?
and you discussed said risks wi O’Keeffe... right???
Well they can be a non profit nothing now.