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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, his wife, and three different voting rights groups were slapped with legal complaints alleging malfeasance related to activities surrounding the 2020 election.
The Center for Renewing America (CRA) filed two complaints. The first complaint filed was against Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan and the second one filed was against the groups Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), and National Vote at Home Institute (NVAHI). These were filed Thursday morning with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
The complaints were obtained by Fox Business and they allege that Zuckerberg and the three groups were involved in a scheme to put nearly $500 million into the 2020 election to “throw it” to President Joe Biden.
Biden ultimates won, curiously winning in key swing states like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Zuckerberg hired former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe to lead the effort, according to the CRA.
Plouffe allegedly funneled most of the hundred-million-dollar grants from the couple to Democratic jurisdictions in swing states via the three tax-expect voting rights groups.
“It is beyond disgraceful to imagine federal taxpayers subsidizing the partisan preferences of billionaires who easily could have given to a Democrat super PAC in 2020,” the CRA said in a statement shared with FOX Business.
“But, of course, then they would not have been able to take a tax deduction, so they disguised the political nature of their donations and shuffled them through ‘charitable’ intermediaries, making ordinary Americans foot the bill,” the CRA continued.
The CRA notes that federal law prohibits individuals from making donations intended to illegitimately aid one political party over another one.
The complaints said the IRS must deny any personal income tax exemptions collected by Zuckerberg and Chan for their donations to the CTCL, CEIR, and NVAHI during the 2020 election cycle.
“We leave to the Service to determine whether there is enough evidence to sustain a criminal investigation into Chan or Zuckerberg for tax fraud,” the CRA complaint stated.
Nevertheless, at the very least, it is incumbent upon the IRS to recoup what is likely a false tax deduction on a roughly hundred-million-dollar order of magnitude: an unlawful taxpayer subsidy running to support Democrat electioneering purposes.”
The CRA said that it’s absolute “rubbish” to say that Zuckerberg and Chan hired Plouffe to help local governments on a non-partisan basis.
The CRA is a conservative policy group led by former senior Trump administration official Russ Vought. The organization’s mission is to “renew a consensus of America as a nation under God with unique interests worthy of defending.”
This information comes as no surprise, but it is nice when facts start to line up with intuition and the obvious.
