Dear Supporters:
The List:
October is coming to a close with mere weeks before
President Obama leaves office.
The President continues his plan to grant pardons and
clemency (commutation of sentence) to those who have received excessive
sentences for some drug convictions.
Thus far, some sentences have been reduced, while others have
been released or will be in the near future. Not all though are just being set
free. For example; Jefferson Levine, convicted in 2001 for possession with
intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base had his life sentence
reduced to 22 years, so he’ll be released sometime in 2023, or Charles Stokes,
convicted in 1996 for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base,
sentenced to life but commuted to 360 months, with a release date in 2026.[i]
What The List does not contain is a convicted felon for a
brutal double-murder of two already attacked and critically wounded (an attack
in which he and other Cowards of Jumping Bull instigated), a felon involved in
an armed escape from federal prison, one who has claimed to be a brave warrior
and at the same time a pathetic victim, one who has adulterated an otherwise
proud Native American culture, made many, even recent, public admissions that
only serve to reinforce his guilt beyond all doubt, and in the process, scam
unsuspecting or unknowing supporters into believing that he is in some perverse
way entitled to any consideration of his clemency petition.[ii]
Leonard Peltier remains a remorseless and unrepentant
cold-blooded killer who should be shown the same mercy he gave to FBI Agents
Jack Coler and Ron Williams: And that would be none.
The IRS [iii]
Anyone who
has spent just a little time examining Leonard Peltier’s claims of charitable
activities and fund raising and illegitimate (illegal) claims of “tax
deductible” donations can easily see through the scam. Moreover, by the way, so
has the IRS, (which was evident, although Peltier and the ILPDC would never
admit it), as Peltier over the years has removed, then tried another scheme to
claim in some groundless and distorted manner that he, of all people, is a
charity case.
Please see this Editorial Essay for some background.[iv]
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In response to a complaint to the IRS[v],
the following was received:
Department of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Service
Tax Exempt and Government Entities
Exempt Organizations: Examinations
1100 Commerce Street
Dallas, TX 75242
October
3, 2016
Dear Ed Woods:
Thank you for the information you submitted regarding the
INTERNATIONAL LEONARD PELTIER DEFENSE COMMITTEE. The IRS has an ongoing audit
program to ensure exempt organizations comply with applicable provisions of the
Internal Revenue Code (the Code). We’ll consider the information you submitted
in this program.
Section 6103 of the Code requires that tax returns and
return information shall be confidential…If you later have additional
information you think is relevant to this matter, attach a copy of this letter
to the information and send it to the address shown above.
We appreciate your bringing this matter to our attention.
If you have questions, call IRS Customer Account Services at (867) 829-5500
Sincerely,
Margaret Von Lienen
Margaret
Von Lienen
Director,
Exempt Organizations
Examinations
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Peltier history demonstrates that this has been an
ongoing issue, (finances and fundraising that is), as people within his own
“committee” called for transparency.[vi]
Obviously, that never happened and has remained Peltier’s
long-standing, dirty little secret.
January 20, 2017 will come and go without effect for USP
Coleman inmate #89637-132.
It will be interesting to see how the tax-deductible fundraising will continue
after that point, providing the IRS doesn’t shut it down altogether and Peltier becomes what he is in reality, a footnote in the sordid history of the
American Indian Movement.
“In the Spirit of Coler and Williams”
Ed Woods
