No Tax Charges Filed in Southern Poverty Law Center Probe, After IRS Lawyers Determined Informant Program Legally Structured, Sources Say
IRS lawyers found the informant program legally structured, while prosecutors secured an 11-count fraud indictment over shell bank accounts and donor deception.
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No Tax Charges Filed in SPLC Probe After IRS Lawyers Found Informant Program Lawful
CBS News Federal agents previously investigated the Southern Poverty Law Center’s paid informant program for possible tax crimes, but the probe failed to yield any charges after Internal Revenue Service lawyers determined it was legally structured, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Agents from IRS Criminal Investigation in 2019 and 2020 homed in on shell bank accounts that a former chief financial officer at the civil rights nonp…
No tax charges filed in Southern Poverty Law Center investigation after IRS review concludes informant programme is legally structured
Federal agents previously investigated the Southern Poverty Law Center's informant programme for potential tax violations but did not bring charges after IRS lawyers found it legally compliant. The inquiry, initiated during President Trump's term, expanded from an initial FBI probe regarding possible embezzlement by a former chief financial officer.
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