There’s nothing the IRS won’t allow except conservatives.
We’ve been covering IRS abuses for a long time and while it’s gone after conservative, Christian and Jewish groups, it’s allowed leftist and Islamist groups to go on operating.
This may be the most extreme example yet.
The Justice Department today announced the unsealing of a five-count complaint charging Reda Mazen Rida Sabassi, 38, of San Diego, California, with terrorism, sanctions-evasion, wire fraud, money laundering, and false statement charges in connection with his efforts to divert funds raised through purported charitable campaigns to Hamas and for personal use.
Since at least in or about 2022, Sabassi has used his social media accounts, crowdfunding websites, and his putative charity called Ikram — The Arab Charity Foundation Inc. (Ikram) to solicit donations from around the world, including from individuals in the United States and New York. In his online fundraising campaigns, Sabassi claimed to be raising funds to provide humanitarian aid to people in Gaza; however, Sabassi was actually raising funds for Hamas. Sabassi and a co-conspirator joked privately that they should name the fundraiser after Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades, before agreeing to use Sabassi’s Ikram. Sabassi worked with the Hamas fundraising organization Gaza Now and other co-conspirators to operate these online fundraisers and to send funds to Hamas.*** Between in or about December 2023 and in or about February 2024, Sabassi raised a total of approximately $600,000 through online fundraising campaigns, from which Sabassi sent approximately $116,000 to a Hamas member and attempted to convert approximately $382,000 of the cash he raised into cryptocurrency to send to Hamas through Gaza Now.
That’s not the strange part of this.
The non-profit in question should never have even been allowed to operate. The paperwork is woefully inadequate and the 2024 filing stated that the “remaining funds were placed under federal seizure due to an ongoing FBI investigation unrelated to the organization’s charitable activities.”
This should have rung some bells at the IRS. But nope. Neither did the FBI action because the IRS database shows that it’s still eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions despite a federal seizure of funds reported on its 2024 990s and a DOJ crackdown.
The IRS spent six years targeting us for writing negatively about Hillary Clinton but having the DOJ go after you for supporting Islamic terrorists is fine with the IRS.
There’s nothing the IRS won’t allow except conservatives.
somehistory says
How many muzlim terrorists are IRS agents? How many are in supervisory positions?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
That would seem fine from the POV that the IRS is only supposed to oversee financial irregularities of entities, not other criminal ones. It’s the FBI’s job to shut them down, & also signal the IRS that those organizations should not be allowed to operate
Also, even if the FBI was still investigating, it should have told the IRS to freeze their financial activities due to that ongoing investigation
OLD GUY says
Sounds like these government agencies need and should be working together for the American citizens and tax payers.
Pray Hard says
Proving once again that the IRS is nothing but a communist extortion racket.
gravenimage says
IRS Allows Hamas Non-Profit to Operate Even After FBI Bust
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Suicidal madness. Shut it down.
Kumoi Jishi says
Where and to whom do we write to complain about this issue? If enough letters reach the agencies involved they might reconsider, yes?