Uh-oh: Abramoff charity's claims disputed

[kpete]

Abramoff charity's claims disputed
Groups listed as beneficiaries of more than $330,000 in gifts say they never got them
By Chuck Lindell
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Capital Athletic Foundation, a charity run by disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff now at the center of an influence-peddling investigation on Capitol Hill, told the IRS it gave away more than $330,000 in grants in 2002 to four other charities that say they never received the money.

The largest grant the foundation listed in its 2002 tax filing was for $300,000 to P'TACH of New York, a nonprofit that helps Jewish children with learning disabilities.


"We've never received a $300,000 gift, not in our 28 years," a surprised Rabbi Burton Jaffa, P'TACH's national director, told the Austin American-States- man. "It would have been gone by now. I guess I would have been able to pay some teachers on time."

Federal investigators have not contacted P'TACH about the grant, Jaffa said. Representa- tives of three other nonprofits that supposedly received Capital Athletic money also said they have not been contacted.

The discrepancy also follows e-mails between Abramoff and members of his lobbying team that say then-House Republican Leader Tom DeLay of Sugar Land wanted to raise money through Capital Athletic for an unspecified purpose. In one of those e-mails, Abramoff announced a $200,000 fundraising goal.
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http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/12/15abramoff.html

[Beetwasher]

1. Holy Crap!

Sounds like he's pretty busted, dead to rights all over the place. Man oh Manishewitz!

[Mabus]

14. You said it!

I hope this helps bring the culture of corruption to an end sooner.

[SpiralHawk]

2. All monies went to Republican cronies

You can depend on it with the Republican culture of corruption.

[hwmnbn]

3. Now they got a tax-evasion rap on this guy!?!...

When it rains it pours. Hopefully the prospect of facing serious jail time might loosen Mr. Abramoff's lips.

[Loonman]

4. Count on Republicans to screw everybody they come in contact with

It's a given.

[babylonsister]

5. Sweet! Another day, more fuel for the fire! nt

[nickyt]

6. Ole Jack is halfway to being God. God giveth and He taketh away.

Jack taketh and taketh. And then lieth about it. He also maketh my day, day after day!!

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Woohoo!

[KharmaTrain]

7. Hurricane Abramoff Has Just Hit Catagory 3!!!!

I'm surprised not many are seeing the connections here. It doesn't take much to assume this money ended up in the Texas redistricting elections and we know whose hands are all messy with that and still facing money laundering charges. This is a very big connection...as it opens the doors into a lot of inquiries on many levels in many locations.

If Abramoff was able to fool the IRS and funnel slush money to Repugnicans via phony charitable donations, how many others did the same in various forms and fashions. No big money rathole stays private in this operation. Remember, the Repugnicans have set up dozens of PACs, Institutes, Foundations and other "non-profit" "think tanks" along with hundreds of "issue-advocacy" operations, such as the astroturf ones being run by Jay Sukelow or Morton Blackwell. The money runs thick and fast in this underworld and Abramoff was just one player among many.

This also connects the Bugman with Abramoff's troubles with Ney, Burns and eventually, I predict, onto MZM and the Duke-stir. How many others will get burned along the way? Well, when a hurricane starts up the coastline, no one can predict where it will eventually hit and how widespread the damage will be.

[Just Me]

8. WOW!!! This guy really is quite a sicko!!!

Hope he goes to jail for a very long time!!!

[StaggerLee]

9. Wouldn't it be easier for the DA

To make out a list of possible crimes and just cross out the one's this POS may have NOT commited?

Sheesh.

:freak:

[RazzleDazzle]

11. Why on earth can't you people

provide the real link to the blog. I'm freakin' sick of it. If you want a friend to see a thread here at DemocraticUnderground, do you send them the home page link? I think not. What you provided for atrios is absolutely no better. For shame!

I can't even chalk it up to laziness. You can get the real link with a right click and Ctrl+C, dammit. For Atrios, right click on the timestamp and choose copy link location. For many other blogs, there's a hyperlink for "permalink," just right-click on it. For some, it may be Comments.

You can do better.

[roguevalley]

12. he screwed over a Jewish children's charity!? Abramoff is a Rabbi

for godsake. he's gonna burn when he dies.

[Al-CIAda]

13. .

[stickdog]

15. Where did all that money go, then?

And while we're on the subject, where did all our Red Cross donations to Katrina victims go?

[LSK]

16. check the parking lot of the country club n/t

[Sydnie]

17. Buying the government everywhere you go is hard work

and obviously expensive. Just say you gave it to a charity and make that government official the charitiable donation instead. That's what I call and "equal opportunity screwing" for all concerned.