-Caveat Lector-
The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News had much more information
yesterday on this. Looks like Jesse is finally caught in
his extortion schemes. $600K for travel last year alone! I
would like to have the $2 Federal Grant money (taxpayer
money) he has made disappear and now claims he did not even
want! But most interesting is the huge amount of money and
travel expenses paid by the Democrats to a person claiming
non-partisanship. No wonder he was inventing "thousands of
disenfranchised voters" while Bill Hill carted the
furniture out the back door and sold pardons, etc. He has
been a liar all of his political career, starting with his
claim that it was he and not Ralph Abernathy with MKL when
he was assasinated. And now it makes sense why these people
were desperate enough to try to steal the election. Jesse
needed protection from the IRS to continue and Clinton did
not want his selling of pardons scrutinized. It is
beginning to all make sense.
Amelia
Jesse Jackson Scrambles to Repair Damaged Reputation
CNSNews.com
Wednesday, March 7, 2001
Jesse Jackson's black empowerment conglomerate faced a media
barrage Tuesday after his chief financial officer admitted
there was a "high probability" that a 1999 financial
disclosure form, filed by Jackson's Citizenship Education
Fund, would need to be amended.
Just last week, National Legal and Policy Center filed a
complaint with the Internal Revenue Service, alleging that
the CEF had violated tax code provisions applying to
nonprofit organizations and asking the IRS to investigate
Jackson's financial dealings.
This week, Billy R. Owens, Jackson's chief financial
officer, released a 102-page report to the Chicago Tribune
detailing the finances of Jackson's four organizations.
Owens said the section of a 1999 financial disclosure form,
which asked for the names of CEF employees making more than
$50,000, contained the answer "none" and was "probably"
inaccurate.
So many news organizations are now asking questions about
Jackson's empire that his press secretary was scrambling
Tuesday to schedule a news conference and to make copies of
the Owens financial report available.
"We want to also have on hand Janice Mathis [vice president
of Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition] and some other persons
that can speak to some of the services that are rendered,
because some of the coverage we've been getting has not been
balanced, and it only focuses on the finances, where there's
another component, which is the service rendered," said
Keiana Peyton, Jackson's press secretary.
Peter Flaherty, president of National Legal and Policy
Center, was swift with a response to Owens' report.
"The fact that they will amend their tax returns indicates
that our complaint had merit, and they're acknowledging
that," Flaherty said. However, "the material he released,
which concerns several organizations, not just the
Citizenship Education Fund, raises more questions than it
answers, and we plan to keep asking questions."
The NLPC complaint, among other things, questions the
tactics used by Jackson in negotiating with corporations
that, at the time, were seeking federal approval of a
merger.
According to Flaherty, Jackson "blackmailed" major telephone
companies, involved in three separate mergers, into donating
funds to his charities, threatening the companies with
organized protests if they did not contribute. The NLPC
complaint alleges that, as a result, Jackson's organization
acted "more like a fee-for-service consulting business
rather than a charitable/educational organization."
Flaherty also alleges that Jackson used the CEF to benefit
friends and family, specifically threatening an economic
boycott against Anheuser Busch Companies Inc. to help his
two sons gain a lucrative beer distributorship in Chicago.
"Jesse Jackson has attacked us as right-wing extremists, but
the fact that he's now releasing more financial information
indicates that the questions we have raised are legitimate,"
Flaherty said.
The IRS has not yet responded to the NLPC complaint.
However, according to Flaherty, "they'll probably
acknowledge it very soon. ... As far as the audit and
investigation, they are notoriously slow."
Jackson's organization has not responded directly to the
NLPC complaint either, according to Peyton.
"As of right now, there has not been any. We did see the
report that they were submitting to the IRS. ... Our posture
is still the same. If they want to call on the IRS to take
that action, then again, we will be in the position to have
our books available and to have them reviewed and answer
whatever questions are generated from their inquiry."
Peyton promised more information would be released this week
to answer Jackson's critics.
"Any and every one that is now speculating what we do or
questioning the way we run our operation, we want to clear
whatever misconceptions or stereotypes or misinformation
that's out there. We want to set the record straight."
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