the location of where you are conducting these teachings. wow. amazing. jenni beth martin, known you for awhile. i m with tea party patriots and we filed for our 501c3 and our 501c4 in december of 2010. we heard nothing from the irs, even though we made inquiries, no response back until early in 2012. so two years later? a year and a half later. we got questions like so many of these other groups. what were some of the outrageous questions you got? they wanted to know every congressman and senator any of our people spoke to and the communications with them including copies of written communication. isn t that none of their blank business? we didn t give them. seriously, right? does anybody think that is their base? does that have to do with your taxes ? if you can t communicate with your own elected the person who is supposed to
not believe that happened. you can assure us there was absolutely no sharing of this information by a government agency. take a look at that but i would be shocked, congressman, if that happened, shocked. let s look at one of the tea party groups in my community. the founder, small business woman originally filed for tax exempt status in july of 2010. fully 20 months later, in february of 2012, she received a letter from the irs with numerous follow-up questions, a lot of them intrusive, but she answered every one of them and returned it well within the two-week time limit. now, almost three years to the day, that she first filed, her application is still pending. but let s look at what happened to her in the three years since she applied. beginning in december of 2010, she was visited by the fbi domestic terrorism unit. her personal returns and her business returns were both audited by the irs.
status in december of 2010 and then, i m sorry in july of 2010, which is just months after this whole thing was born. so it was in full fledge by july of 2010. that she got visited by the fbi terrorism unit, four fbi inquiries, unscheduled audits by on or about sharks atf two times. she had never been audited before. that s his allegation based on what his constituent told him. but, jay, i mean, if that is true, then this goes much deeper and much higher and gets to a much more disturbing level than we know today. if we got the terrorism unit looking at, you know, potential tea party tax exempt individuals and harassing them or questioning them, but they didn t bother to, you know, follow up on the first boston bomber when he went over to dagestan, that tells you something. i will tell you, this megyn, i have got a case right now where a client challenged the hhs mandate affordable healthcare part of obama care. we have got an injunction on it. he was audited four years ago or three
bill: this was all so you could get tax-free, tax exempt status extended? is that why you were no. not extended. bill: what was interaction with the irs all about. not even rescinded. we have never been granted or rejected irs status for 501 c 4 or 501 c 3 status. we applied in december of 2010. it s been over two years. bill: it s still pending. you still don t have it? the irs is still stringing us along today. bill: so, in order to try to get the tax exempt status, that organization is like planned parenthood, for example have, and very active political organizations have. in order to try to get that you filed a requisite paper with the irs and then they came in and asked you intrusive questions about things that you believe they had no business asking about; is that correct. that s absolutely correct. it wasn t like they came in and asked for it. there was nothing no
bill: this was all so you could get tax-free, tax exempt status extended? is that why you were no. not extended. bill: what was interaction with the irs all about. not even rescinded. we have never been granted or rejected irs status for 501 c 4 or 501 c 3 status. we applied in december of 2010. it s been over two years. bill: it s still pending. you still don t have it? the irs is still stringing us along today. bill: so, in order to try to get the tax exempt status, that organization is like planned parenthood, for example have, and very active political organizations have. in order to try to get that you filed a requisite paper with the irs and then they came in and asked you intrusive questions about things that you believe they had no business asking about; is that correct. that s absolutely correct. it wasn t like they came in and asked for it. there was nothing no communication from them for