IRS Pays Out $50K To National Organization for Marriage Over Donor Info Scandal
"In the beginning, the government claimed that the IRS had done nothing wrong and that NOM itself must have released our confidential information," read a statement from NOM Chairman John D. Eastman"
Sounds quite a bit like Smidgen's opening statement pleading the 5th.
Likewise if Barry and Stedman are truly not involved in the IRS scandal then it would stand to reason they would be involved in getting to the bottom of it…and we all see where that's going.
Furthermore, I guess the MSM is not going to take action until the IRS starts beheading the TeaPartiers and even then who knows.
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Behind the scenes
The IRS will pay $50,000 in damages to the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) for illegally leaking donor information to a pro-gay marriage group, it was announced Tuesday.
The Human Rights Campaign posted NOM's 2008 tax return, along with the names and contact information of major donors, on their website during the 2012 presidential campaign. The unauthorized dissemination of such information is a felony.
TheDC broke the story, obtaining NOM's official demand for a federal investigation. Now, an investigation that is part of the civil suit NOM filed against the IRS has found that someone at the IRS did give NOM's confidential tax and donor information to a gay rights activist in Boston. The identity of the leaker is not yet known. (RELATED: IRS Responds To NOM, Is Taking Alleged Leak Very Seriously)
"In the beginning, the government claimed that the IRS had done nothing wrong and that NOM itself must have released our confidential information," read a statement from NOM Chairman John D. Eastman. "Thanks to a lot of hard work, we've forced the IRS to admit that they in fact were the ones to break the law and wrongfully released this confidential information."
Human Rights Campaign's then-president, Joe Solmonese, was also the co-chair of President Barack Obama's re-election campaign.
The $50,000 covers actual costs incurred by NOM while responding to the leaked information, and are not punitive damages. No criminal charges have been filed.
(And they probably never will be)
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