Looks like this is gaining steam.
Debbie Schlussel started the ball rolling, Freedom Alliance and amongst others Michele Malkin screamed blue murder. Debbie didn't back down then went in for the kill.
Now CREW are filing a complaint.
OOOOO, is it popcorn time yet?
It started with this
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/...
Sean Hannity’s Freedom CONcert Scam: Almost None of Charity’s $ Went to Injured Troops, Kids of Fallen Troops; G5s for Vannity?
Was rebutted thus
http://biggovernment.com/...
Freedom Alliance Responds to Allegations Against Sean Hannityby Freedom Alliance
Dear Friends of Freedom Alliance:
This week, false and malicious allegations about Freedom Alliance were posted on the Internet and we want to address them with you. We don’t know the motivation for these vicious smears, but we will not allow them to go unanswered.
Debbie hits back
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/...
In fact, it’s far worse than I originally reported. The scam is far bigger. And it’s big business. . . . for cronies and friends of Sean Hannity and Oliver North. I’ll be writing more in the coming days about the Freedom Alliance, itself, and where the money the charity receives is really going.
I diaried this a couple of days ago
http://www.dailykos.com/...
So now CREW have gotten interested it seems
http://www.earthtimes.org/...
WASHINGTON - (Business Wire) Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed complaints with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) against Sean Hannity, his Freedom Concerts, the Freedom Alliance and Lt. Col. Oliver North. Copies of the complaints were also sent to the attorney generals of the states in which concerts are scheduled to be held this summer.
Not sure if this is another one that includes a complaint from Vets or if it is the same complaint
http://www.citizensforethics.org/...
CREW will host a joint press conference Monday with VoteVets.org discussing complaints with the IRS and the Federal Trade Commission about Freedom Concert, Freedom Alliance, and Lt. Col. Oliver North.
Freedom Concerts events have been organized by Premier Marketing, according to conservative blogger Debbie Schlussel and CREW. Premier Marketing is operated by Duane Ward, the speaking engagement agent for both Sean Hannity and Oliver North, according to Schlussel.
UPDATE........Now they are really in trouble...Mother Jones is on the case
http://motherjones.com/...
CREW has also filed a second complaint with the Internal Revenue Service arguing that North's Freedom Alliance has violated its status as a 501(c)3 charity by "engaging in prohibited political activities." When the group was first formed in 1999, the IRS granted it charitable tax status on the condition that it remove politically partisan material from its website, CREW notes. However, there are still numerous links on the organization's website to North’s charged political columns
Thanks for the recs everybody.