Lois Lerner Colluded with Unions on Political Expenditures

The more people dig, the more we find out the IRS has been completely corrupted.  It’s not enough they harassed and punished Tea Party organizations, now we are finding out Lois Lerner and her fellow travelers were in bed with unions and other Democratic Party operatives.

Labor organizations were filing separate reports, one to the IRS and another to the Labor Department declaring different amounts on political expenditures, and Lois Lerner knew about it.  The Daily Caller reported the following:

At the time of the email, Lerner was the Director of Exempt Organizations at the IRS.

Lerner wrote, “We looked at the information you provided regarding organizations that report substantial amounts of political activity and lobbying expenditures on the DOL Form LM-2, but report little to no political expenditures on the Form 990 filed with the IRS.”

“We believe this difference in reporting does not necessarily indicate that the organization has incorrectly reported to either the DOL or the IRS,” Lerner concluded.

Don Todd, the deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) at the time the email was sent, confirmed seeing Lerner’s email and remembering similar complaints at the time. OLMS oversees labor union financial disclosures within the Department of Labor.

“The law’s never been enforced,” Todd told TheDCNF. “The IRS was telling us it would cost more to enforce the law then they would collect.”

In 2006, the year leading up to Lerner’s email, the national headquarters for the AFL-CIO reported no direct or indirect political expenditures with the IRS on their 990 form, leaving the line 81a blank. That same year, the AFL-CIO reported $29,585,661 in political activities with the Department of Labor.

Also in 2006 the Teamsters Union reported no political expenditures with the IRS while at the same time reporting $7,081,965 with the Labor Department.

Again in 2006, Unite-Here reported no political activity with the IRS and $1,451,002 with the Labor Department.

In 2005, the National Education Association also reported no political expenditures with the IRS while at the same time reporting $24,985,250 with the Labor Department.

Labor union political spending overwhelmingly benefits Democrats. Todd told TheDCNF Lerner may have been playing favorites. Lerner has been accused of singling out tea party groups applying for tax-exempt status.

Lerner acknowledged in the 2007 email, “The definition of political campaign activity required to be reported on Form LM2 coincides with the definition of political campaign activity expenditures required to be reported on Form 990.”

All this was pre-Tea Party.  Makes you wonder how long this has been going on.  I have a question.  Will these labor unions pay a price for falsifying tax reports?  Yeah, I don’t think so.  Some animals are more equal than others.

Source: http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/01/email-reveals-lois-lerner-ignored-political-expenditures-by-unions/#ixzz3CDXrgVMv