NEW: US Senate Democrats ask the IRS to consider stripping the NRA of its tax-exempt status.
The probe was limited in scope and relied on the NRA to voluntarily hand over documents. Republicans on the Finance Committee opted not to cooperate with the investigation.
The staff for Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, reviewed the documents obtained by Wyden’s staff and issuedstating they found that the $6,000 in question to pay for the trip to Russia is “relatively insubstantial” and the evidence “does not raise concerns that the NRA abused its tax-exempt status purposes” when NRA officials traveled to Moscow in 2015.
“This report goes to great lengths to try to involve the NRA in activities of private individuals and create the false impression that the NRA did not act appropriately. Nothing could be further from the truth,” William A. Brewer III, counsel to the NRA, said about the Democrats’ report.
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