Louie Gohmert: “There has been some interesting news come out. The Council on American-Islamic Relations is changing its name. There was…”

“There has been some interesting news come out. The Council on American-Islamic Relations is changing its name. There was an article in the American Thinker on September 23. This article points out that an explosive story posted Sunday by Charles Johnson at The Daily Caller reveals that: CAIR has apparently been laundering money obtained from Middle East donors in violation of Federal law. While it publicly presents itself as a single organization, CAIR has, in fact, created a multitude of 501(c)(3) organizations and a 501(c)(4), CAIR Action Network. By moving donations around, CAIR may have evaded taxes and has avoided disclosure of its foreign funding sources required by the Foreign Agent Registration Act. Quoting Johnson, ``Under IRS regulations, an organization may have 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) related entities, but they must maintain a wall between the two; this is accomplished by establishing separate bank accounts, board of directors, bookkeeping, and payroll. CAIR, though, had none of these.'' Johnson cites David Reaboi, vice president for strategic communications at Frank Gaffney's Center for Security Policy, ``Plentiful legal evidence, acquired in the course of a lawsuit--plus CAIR's own official filing documents to the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) and IRS--make clear that CAIR has engaged in a thinly-disguised money laundering operation.…”