"How Some Nonprofit Groups Funnel Dark Money Into Campaigns"

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How Some Nonprofit Groups Funnel Dark Money Into Campaigns

By Kim Barker and Al Shaw, ProPublica

http://projects.propublica.org/dark-money/

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ProPublica investigation shows that many 501(c)(4) nonprofits active in the 2010 election spent millions of dollars on campaigns, sometimes reporting less political spending to the Internal Revenue Service than they did to election officials. Some groups listed here – including several with long histories and well-established social welfare missions – put only a small portion of their resources into politics and reported accurately.


(Listed below this paragraph are the differences between what they reported to IRS vs. election officials. Was this the reason the IRS started to investigate such groups? Cause they started in 2010.)

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