Post by New Mama on Jul 27, 2012 12:52:42 GMT -6
A few months ago the Obama campaign published a list of wealthy Romney donors with "less-than-reputable" records while offering no proof. The intent seems to have been to shame Romney supporters into silence. Now, the IRS and the Labor Department is auditing one of those donors.
www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/politics/2012/Jul/26/vandersloot_subject_of_irs__labor_dept__audits.html
This is so Chicago like. My girlfriend owned a very successful bar and restaurant kitty corner to Union Station here. Mayor Daley supported a new high-rise for a big campaign contributor on her site. She didn't want to sell. She received almost daily inspections by the cities health, fire and liquor inspectors until she gave in. It’s now a tall half empty tower office building.
Idaho multimillionaire and big-money Republican donor Frank Vandersloot has found himself the subject of two new federal audits, one by the Internal Revenue Service and the other by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Vandersloot, the founder and CEO of Idaho Falls-based health care products company Melaleuca Inc., said he learned of the two federal inquires within the last month and intends to cooperate.
What he doesn't understand is the timing.
Vandersloot is no stranger to bare-knuckle politics and using his wealth to influence state and national elections. He is among the wealthy donors who have given at least $1 million to a political action committee supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The 63-year-old Mormon entrepreneur is also a national campaign finance co-chair for Romney and one of eight Romney donors singled out in April by President Barack Obama's campaign for having questionable and troubling records on various issues.
Sixty-one days after the Obama campaign posted the list of Romney donors, Vandersloot said he received a letter from the IRS, his first-ever audit from the agency.
"It's all fine and well," Vandersloot told The Associated Press Wednesday. "I am not claiming there is a connection, and don't know if there is one.
"But the fact that it comes right on the heels of being named on the president's enemies list is curious to say the least," he said.
The Labor Department audit will examine three temporary foreign workers employed at Vandersloot's Riverbend Ranch, a cattle operation based at two locations in southwestern Montana. Vandersloot said all three employees have worked at the ranch for at least five years.
Vandersloot, the founder and CEO of Idaho Falls-based health care products company Melaleuca Inc., said he learned of the two federal inquires within the last month and intends to cooperate.
What he doesn't understand is the timing.
Vandersloot is no stranger to bare-knuckle politics and using his wealth to influence state and national elections. He is among the wealthy donors who have given at least $1 million to a political action committee supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The 63-year-old Mormon entrepreneur is also a national campaign finance co-chair for Romney and one of eight Romney donors singled out in April by President Barack Obama's campaign for having questionable and troubling records on various issues.
Sixty-one days after the Obama campaign posted the list of Romney donors, Vandersloot said he received a letter from the IRS, his first-ever audit from the agency.
"It's all fine and well," Vandersloot told The Associated Press Wednesday. "I am not claiming there is a connection, and don't know if there is one.
"But the fact that it comes right on the heels of being named on the president's enemies list is curious to say the least," he said.
The Labor Department audit will examine three temporary foreign workers employed at Vandersloot's Riverbend Ranch, a cattle operation based at two locations in southwestern Montana. Vandersloot said all three employees have worked at the ranch for at least five years.
www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/politics/2012/Jul/26/vandersloot_subject_of_irs__labor_dept__audits.html
This is so Chicago like. My girlfriend owned a very successful bar and restaurant kitty corner to Union Station here. Mayor Daley supported a new high-rise for a big campaign contributor on her site. She didn't want to sell. She received almost daily inspections by the cities health, fire and liquor inspectors until she gave in. It’s now a tall half empty tower office building.