{"id":1687083,"date":"2022-10-12T17:36:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T21:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687083"},"modified":"2022-10-12T17:36:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T21:36:39","slug":"watchdog-calls-for-irs-audit-of-warnock-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watchdog-calls-for-irs-audit-of-warnock-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog Calls for IRS Audit of Warnock Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatchdog-calls-for-irs-audit-of-warnock-church%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687083&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Ebenezer Baptist Church secretly owns an apartment building that is serving poor residents with eviction notices<\/p>\n<p>    Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) \/ Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-kerr\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Kerr\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Kerr<\/a> \u2022 October 12, 2022 5:30 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Sen. Raphael Warnock&#8217;s (D., Ga.) church should face an IRS audit for concealing its ownership of a low-income apartment building that tried to evict disadvantaged residents, a watchdog group charged in a complaint filed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint follows a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/raphael-warnocks-church-pays-for-his-home-its-also-trying-to-evict-the-poor-from-theirs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> that Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Warnock serves as a senior pastor, owns 99 percent of the Columbia Tower at MLK Village in downtown Atlanta. The church&#8217;s charity, Ebenezer Building Foundation, did not disclose on its Form 990 tax returns that it owns the building through a network of shell organizations. Experts say the omission violates IRS reporting rules.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is abundantly clear that Ebenezer Building Foundation, Inc. has violated one or more IRS laws and regulations regarding the operation of a nonprofit charity,&#8221; the National Legal and Policy Center charged in the complaint. &#8220;The IRS must conduct a full investigation and audit of the Foundation&#8217;s finances and transactions and assess appropriate civil and criminal penalties, and revoking their tax-exempt status if warranted. The public interest demands it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ebenezer Building Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charity that in its <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ebenezer-Building-Foundation-2020-Form-990.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IRS Form 990 filings<\/a> delegates all management duties to Ebenezer Baptist Church, shares the same address as the church, and identifies Warnock as its principal officer. Ebenezer Building Foundation holds a 99 percent stake in Columbia Tower through a shell company called MLK Village Corporation, which also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/MLK-Village-Corporation-officers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shares<\/a> the same address as the church and is led by the same three officers as the charity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Accordingly, Ebenezer should have disclosed Columbia Residential as a for-profit-related entity \u2026 as a \u2018related organization&#8217; because it is, in effect, its \u2018Subsidiary,'&#8221; the NLPC said in its complaint.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition, the Foundation failed to disclose MLK Village Corp as a related organization since it has had the same three registered officers since 2018,&#8221; the watchdog added. &#8220;In that case, they are considered a Brother\/Sister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Raphael Warnock&#8217;s (D., Ga.) church should face an IRS audit for concealing its ownership of a low-income apartment building that tried to evict disadvantaged residents, a watchdog group charged in a complaint filed Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe post Watchdog Calls for IRS Audit of Warnock Church appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}