** *Barack H. Obama Foundation Received Tax-Exempt Status from IRS Retroactively* Saturday, May 25, 2013 ** [image: http://image.b4in.net/google-plus-20.gif]**** *Barack H. Obama Foundation Received Tax-Exempt Status from IRS Retroactively<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.rightsidenews.com/2013052432593/life-and-science/culture-wars/barack-h-obama-foundation-received-tax-exempt-status-from-irs-retroactively.html> ***** As Tea Party and other conservative “liberty groups” were being targeted and slammed with additional paper work requirements by the IRS, [image: Barack H Obama Foundation]the shady Barack H. Obama Foundation, (BHOF), was expedited tax-exempt status by the IRS, retroactively.**** The Barack H. Obama Foundation (BHOF) was established<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.barackhobamafoundation.org/about.html> in2008<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/09/malik-obama-charity_n_859563.html> by Abon’go Malik Obama (right), the half-brother of U.S. President Barack Obama<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511>. Abon’go, a Kenyan-born Muslim with twelve<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/14/irs-official-lerner-approved-exemption-for-obama-brothers-charity/?print=1> wives, created the foundation in memory of his (and President Obama’s) biological father, Barack H. Obama (1936-82) of Nyan’goma Kogelo village in Kenya.**** Seeking to “provide<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.barackhobamafoundation.org/mission.html> people everywhere with resources to uplift their welfare and living standards,” BHOF claims to be “commit<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.barackhobamafoundation.org/about.html> ted<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.barackhobamafoundation.org/about.html> to a wide array of development and humanitarian projects which will help mitigate social shortcomings in areas of education and literacy, health and well-being, poverty, and … community infrastructure”—particularly as regards “basic needs such as water, electricity, shelter and sustenance.” The foundation’s guiding principle<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/20/tax-exempt-obama-foundation-doesnt-exist-at-listed-addresses/?print=1> is “the inherent belief that no one can truly enjoy the riches he has reaped if his neighbor suffers.”**** BHOF currently identifies its major project as the Siaya Community Self-Help Group<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.barackhobamafoundation.org/projects.html>, which focuses on helping impoverished residents of Siaya, Kenya to access clean drinking water, financial assistance, K-12 education, academic scholarships, medical care, leadership training, and guidance in small-business development. The foundation also claims<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/14/irs-official-lerner-approved-exemption-for-obama-brothers-charity/?print=1> to have funded the construction of a madrassa in Kenya. There is no concrete evidence, however, that BHOF has actually done any of these things. Financial records indicate that from 2008-10, the foundation received grants and donations totaling $42,923 but awarded no grants at all.[1]**** **** On its website, BHOF asserts that its “future projects<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.barackhobamafoundation.org/projects.html> in Kenya and elsewhere around the globe” will focus on:**** **· **“Education development”**** **· **“Child development and welfare”**** **· **“Infrastructure development, to include water, electricity and sanitation”**** **· **“Energy development, to include wind turbines, solar and power generation”**** **· **“Health improvement through health clinics, vaccinations and disease prevention”**** **· **“Humanitarian and natural disaster intervention and response”* *** **· **“Nutrition, to include food security, diet assurance, vitamin deliver”**** **· **“HIV/AIDS, particularly child-affected transmissions and prevention”**** **· **“Advocacy and Partnerships”**** **· **“Life skills, training and modeling”**** BHOF’s website lists the foundation’s physical address as 107 S. West St. #401 in Alexandria, Virginia, a location that actually houses only a UPS store. “They probably just rent a mailbox here or receive mail here,” said<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/20/tax-exempt-obama-foundation-doesnt-exist-at-listed-addresses/?print=1> one UPS employee there in May 2013. Equally problematic is the address<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/20/tax-exempt-obama-foundation-doesnt-exist-at-listed-addresses/?print=1> listed in BHOF’s IRS filings—4201 Wilson Blvd., Suite 110-152 in Arlington, Virginia—which houses only a marketing center for a drug-and-alcohol treatment organization known as A Better Today Recovery Services. When questioned about BHOF in May 2013, not a single employee in A Better Today’s office had ever heard of the foundation.**** >From 2008-11, BHOF operated illegally<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/14/irs-official-lerner-approved-exemption-for-obama-brothers-charity/?print=1> as a nonprofit group and falsely claimed tax-exempt<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/14/irs-official-lerner-approved-exemption-for-obama-brothers-charity/?print=1> status—for which it had not yet formally applied. The foundation finally submitted its 2010 application for nonprofit, tax-exempt status on May 23, 2011; seven days later, it submitted its filings for 2008 and 2009. Within just one month of these filings—on June 26, 2011<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.barackhobamafoundation.org/letter.pdf>—Lois Lerner, the senior official who headed the IRS’s tax-exempt organizations office, signed paperwork granting<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.barackhobamafoundation.org/letter.pdf> tax-exempt status to BHOF. This promptness represented a stark contrast to the experience of many conservative organizations that, beginning in 2010, had been intentionally forced<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/pro-life-groups-confirm-irs-targeting-began-in-2009/> (by Lerner’s office) to wait more than three years, in some cases, for approval. Moreover, Lerner broke with the norms of tax-exemption approval by making BHOF’s tax-exempt status retroactive<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/14/irs-official-lerner-approved-exemption-for-obama-brothers-charity/?print=1> to December 2008.**** According<http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/14/irs-official-lerner-approved-exemption-for-obama-brothers-charity/?print=1> to Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center: “The Obama Foundation raised money on its web page by falsely claiming to be a tax deductible. This bogus charity … had not even applied and yet subsequently got retroactive tax-deductible status.” Boehm described Abon’go Malik Obama’s attempt to raise money under the nonprofit banner as “common law fraud and potentially even federal mail fraud.”**** ** . ** __,_._,___ ****
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