WASHINGTON — Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL5) is calling on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s 501c3 non-profit The Clinton Family Foundation after reports have found the organization took millions in improper donations from foreign governments while Mrs. Clinton was the U.S. Secretary of State.
“It is troubling to hear reports of possible IRS abuses by charitable organizations, and further disconcerting when these claims involve a former Secretary of State ‘accidentally’ forgetting to disclose millions in payments by foreign entities,” Rep. Brooks said in a press release Tuesday. “It’s convenient that the Foundation would forget to disclose millions in donations from those who stood to benefit during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, particularly when the Foundation correctly disclosed these donations in preceding years.
Rep. Brooks blasted Clinton’s recent deletion of the emails on her personal server, a matter that is under investigation by Congress, as “damning.”
“I am pleased to join my colleague Marsha Blackburn in calling on the IRS to conduct a timely review of the Foundation’s tax-exempt status and shed light on these reports,” Brooks wrote. “As a non-profit, tax-exempt organization, we owe it to the American people to ensure the Clinton Foundation is acting within the scope of its charitable mission.”
In a letter to IRS commissioner John Koskinen, Brooks and Blackburn further say the allegations against the Clinton Family Foundation “have created an appearance of impropriety and go behind the Foundation’s pledge to act primarily in furtherance of charitable causes for which it was granted tax-exempt status.”
Earlier this month Clinton agreed to testify before the Select Committee to Investigate the Benghazi terror attacks on her lost emails as well as the conduct of the State Department during the attacks.
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