According to a complaint filed with the Internal Revenue Service, an extreme “green” activist “used a tax-exempt nonprofit to stuff his families’ pockets at the expense of taxpayers.” The Daily Caller,
The Competitive Enterprise Institute and Cause of Action filed a complaint asking the IRS to revoke the exempt status of the Institute of Global Environment and Society Inc. — a global warming advocate that has received over $60 million in federal grants.
The nonprofit’s founder and president is George Mason University Professor Jagadish Shukla, who was also the lead signatory of a Sept. 1 letter urging President Obama to investigate fossil fuel companies for deceiving “the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America’s response to climate change.” …
Shukla was “double dipping” between his nonprofit and George Mason, according to the complaint.
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