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Published On: Tue, May 14th, 2013

George Soros funded ProPublica ties to IRS attacks on tea party and patriot groups

A George Soros supported journalism group ProPublica says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was pending.

Appearing to “get out in front” of the scandal, ProPublica says the documents the IRS gave them were “not supposed to be made public” saying:

The same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year… In response to a request for the applications for 67 different nonprofits last November, the Cincinnati office of the IRS sent ProPublica applications or documentation for 31 groups. Nine of those applications had not yet been approved—meaning they were not supposed to be made public. (We made sixof those public, after redacting their financial information, deeming that they were newsworthy.)

“ProPublica, which recently won its second Pulitzer Prize, initially was given millions of dollars from the Sandler Foundation to “strengthen the progressive infrastructure”–“progressive” being the code word for very liberal,” says Media Research Center Vice President for Business and Culture Dan Gainor.

The group says that “no unapproved applications from liberal groups were sent to ProPublica.”

According to Media Research Center Vice President for Business and Culture Dan Gainor, ProPublica’s financial backers include top progressive donors:

ProPublica, which recently won its second Pulitzer Prize, initially was given millions of dollars from the Sandler Foundation to “strengthen the progressive infrastructure”–“progressive” being the code word for very liberal. In 2010, it also received a two-year contribution of $125,000 each year from the Open Society Foundations. In case you wonder where that money comes from, the OSF website is www.soros.org. It is a network of more than 30 international foundations, mostly funded by Soros, who has contributed more than $8 billion to those efforts.

George Soros - Festival of Economics 2012 - Trento  photo Niccolò Caranti via wikimedia commons

George Soros – Festival of Economics 2012 – Trento photo Niccolò Caranti via wikimedia commons

On Friday, the House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to hold a formal hearing on the IRS conservative targeting scandal. IRS Commissioner Steve Miller and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George are slated to testify.

So the IRS fed tax information in the midst of an election cycle to a group which attacks on oil companies, gas companies, the health care industry, for-profit schools and more.

Critics are already is Harry Reid’s “anonymous source” who told the Senator that Mitt Romney never paid taxes is somehow connected to this scandal as well.

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