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Jul 26
How ironic is it that one of the anti immigrant groups, Americans for Legal Immigration, whose agenda, despite their seemingly innocent name, is to force upon the American public their protectionist, racist and nativist agenda, have allegedly been doing the very thing, they wrongly accuse illegal immigrants of doing, EVADING TAXES!
And the trolls that ALIPAC sends forth to spew their hatred around the internet are strangely silent on the subject. Indeed, their website doesn’t mention anything about the situation. How strange!
We can thank a member of Hispanic Business Forums for bringing this alleged malfeasance to light.
According to their Schedule B filing with the Federal Election Commission, ALIPAC paid $5,000 in payroll taxes in April, but this is much more than was due, so these must be back taxes.
Comparing this to the 2007 Schedule B which shows no payroll taxes were apparently paid.
Keep in mind that these are the people who accuse illegal immigrants of not paying income and social security taxes and coming to the US for a free ride.
What I find interesting is the person who allegedly brought this to the attention of the IRS plans to donate any reward received from the IRS to the families impacted by the raid on the Postville Iowa plant of Agriprocessors, one of the largest processors of kosher food products in the country.
More irony! That money from this nativist organization could be used to support the victims of a raid championed by Alipac. How great would it be if any money is received as a reward. that it donated to provide relief to the very people ALIPAC seeks to oppress.
Giving equal time to the organization allegedly involved in this, on their website, they have posted denials and instructed people to spread them across the WWW. Two of these canned responses are left standing on this site. Of course, ALIPAC calls it all a hoax. We’ll see.
The Damned Mexicans has a well written comment on his site based on the information available about these allegations.
This story and these allegations originated at the pro immigrant website ALIPAC.net (American-Latino Immigrants Proudly Assisting the Community ) brought these allegations to light using filings. from the Federal Election Commission.
Our friends at American Humanity and other fine sites such as Citizen Orange are doing an excellent job of exposing the hypocrisy of this organization.
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This is just priceless. Thank you for this post! It really brightened my day. Good to know that diligence and old-fashioned reporting still exist in the world, & are being put to good use!
The statements on your website or blog that William Gheen or Americans for Legal Immigration PAC did not pay proper payroll taxes or have been fined by the IRS is a hoax. Please remove this false information that alleges illegal actions by Gheen or ALIPAC. It is a false rumor circulated by Tony Cheek and Robert Quasius (Online Avatar ‘Watchman’)
William Gheen and Americans for Legal Immigration PAC are in good standing with the IRS and have not been assessed any penalties or fines for non-payment of payroll taxes. All appropriate taxes have been paid to our knowledge.
Mr. Bob Quasius has not received any reward from the IRS for turning in Americans for Legal Immigration PAC for tax violations.
Mr. Robert Quasius, aka Watchman, and Tony Cheek have made numerous false statements about William Gheen and Americans for Legal Immigration PAC and circulated these false allegations on the web and to major organizations and media across America.
After reviewing their numerous false claims, ZERO MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS have reported their fake research and no other significant organization has joined them in their smear campaigns. This is because their claims have been reviewed and found lacking in truth.
Mr. Quasius has filed false reports of this kind with the IRS, NC Secretary of State, and Federal Elections Commission.
Both the NC Secretary of State office and Federal Elections Commission thoroughly investigated his numerous false claims and found them to be without merit and unworthy of further action or investigation. Mr. Quasius has squandered thousand of dollars of your tax monies in his crazed vendetta towards William Gheen and Americans for Legal Immigration PAC.
We do believe Mr. Quasius has attempted a similar tactic with the IRS, but the IRS has NEVER COMMUNICATED with us, regarding his attempts to harm our organization via the IRS. Our Treasurer is in regular contact with both the FEC and IRS and to our knowledge we are in full compliance.
Mr. Quasius makes the false leap of logic because employer taxes were not listed on our FEC reports, when I was the lone employee of ALIPAC that these taxes were not paid. I have paid all appropriate taxes to the IRS and I have paid extra self-employment taxes out of my pay to spare the organization that extra expense in the past. We have recently changed practices because we now have multiple employees and I had ALIPAC pay employer taxes to help cover the tax bill for the first time this year.
It appears at this time that Mr. Quasius is now conducting a hoax, since he has failed to generate any real problems or fines against ALIPAC.
We encourage your site to remove this false information and false allegations of criminal wrongdoing, and to treat information coming from Tony Cheek and Bob Quasius with more skepticism in the future.
If you have any doubts this is a hoax, simply ask Mr. Cheek or Mr. Quasius to provide an image file, for public display on the web, of the official IRS notification backing their claims. When no authentic image file is presented, our claim that this is a hoax will be substantiated.
With the issuance of this rebuttal, I openly challenge Bob and Tony to produce documentation for all to see or to admit their hoax. I will also forewarn them that it is against the law to make false claims of criminal conduct by others and against the law to forge, falsify, or modify the forms and communications of any Federal agency with prosecutorial power like the IRS.
We are sorry that your website is now encountering the same kind of problems Mr. Quasius has caused for numerous public agencies by circulating claims for which he has no real evidence. It is clear that he is obsessed with William Gheen and Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, since we kicked him off our website for the same behavior.
Please delete this hoax.
The statements on your website or blog that William Gheen or Americans for Legal Immigration PAC did not pay proper payroll taxes or have been fined by the IRS is a hoax. Please remove this false information that alleges illegal actions by Gheen or ALIPAC. It is a false rumor circulated by Tony Cheek and Robert Quasius (Online Avatar ‘Watchman’)
William Gheen and Americans for Legal Immigration PAC are in good standing with the IRS and have not been assessed any penalties or fines for non-payment of payroll taxes. All appropriate taxes have been paid to our knowledge.
Mr. Bob Quasius has not received any reward from the IRS for turning in Americans for Legal Immigration PAC for tax violations.
Mr. Robert Quasius, aka Watchman, and Tony Cheek have made numerous false statements about William Gheen and Americans for Legal Immigration PAC and circulated these false allegations on the web and to major organizations and media across America.
After reviewing their numerous false claims, ZERO MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS have reported their fake research and no other significant organization has joined them in their smear campaigns. This is because their claims have been reviewed and found lacking in truth.
Mr. Quasius has filed false reports of this kind with the IRS, NC Secretary of State, and Federal Elections Commission.
Both the NC Secretary of State office and Federal Elections Commission thoroughly investigated his numerous false claims and found them to be without merit and unworthy of further action or investigation. Mr. Quasius has squandered thousand of dollars of your tax monies in his crazed vendetta towards William Gheen and Americans for Legal Immigration PAC.
We do believe Mr. Quasius has attempted a similar tactic with the IRS, but the IRS has NEVER COMMUNICATED with us, regarding his attempts to harm our organization via the IRS. Our Treasurer is in regular contact with both the FEC and IRS and to our knowledge we are in full compliance.
Mr. Quasius makes the false leap of logic because employer taxes were not listed on our FEC reports, when I was the lone employee of ALIPAC that these taxes were not paid. I have paid all appropriate taxes to the IRS and I have paid extra self-employment taxes out of my pay to spare the organization that extra expense in the past. We have recently changed practices because we now have multiple employees and I had ALIPAC pay employer taxes to help cover the tax bill for the first time this year.
It appears at this time that Mr. Quasius is now conducting a hoax, since he has failed to generate any real problems or fines against ALIPAC.
We encourage your site to remove this false information and false allegations of criminal wrongdoing, and to treat information coming from Tony Cheek and Bob Quasius with more skepticism in the future.
If you have any doubts this is a hoax, simply ask Mr. Cheek or Mr. Quasius to provide an image file, for public display on the web, of the official IRS notification backing their claims. When no authentic image file is presented, our claim that this is a hoax will be substantiated.
With the issuance of this rebuttal, I openly challenge Bob and Tony to produce documentation for all to see or to admit their hoax. I will also forewarn them that it is against the law to make false claims of criminal conduct by others and against the law to forge, falsify, or modify the forms and communications of any Federal agency with prosecutorial power like the IRS.
We are sorry that your website is now encountering the same kind of problems Mr. Quasius has caused for numerous public agencies by circulating claims for which he has no real evidence. It is clear that he is obsessed with William Gheen and Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, since we kicked him off our website for the same behavior.
Please delete this hoax.
William Gheen
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC
http://www.alipac.us
Interesting that two identical comments were posted on this subject.
Even more interesting is they came from opposite sides of the country, especially the second one which came from Oakland California. I wonder if the “American Patraiot” (wonder if he meant Patriot or Patraidiot” Sad how some can’t spell)
I’m leaving this post as is, with the canned comments from the ALIPAC website and let my visitors decide.
Because where there is smoke, there is fire!
We’ll see where this goes.
ALIPAC’s FEC filings speak for themselves. They show that until April 2008 ALIPAC paid no employer taxes and withheld no income taxes. You can find ALIPAC’s financial reports filed with the FEC at http://www.fec.gov.
When this question first came up at hispanicbusiness.com, William Gheen claimed he was an independent contractor and therefore ALIPAC did not need to pay employer taxes. When challenged with the criteria for independent contractors, Gheen promptly scurried away from HB never to return and answer our questions.
Even a cursory review of IRS criteria for independent contractors shows Gheen met only half of the 15 necessary criteria for someone to be an independent contractor. As an officer of ALIPAC, essential to ALIPAC and paid on a regular basis with no end date, criteria for completion of a contract, etc. Gheen cannot be an independent contractor.
Gheen’s claims that only now does ALIPAC need to pay payroll taxes because there is more than one employee is false. FEC reports going back years show the same number of employees: President William Gheen and various treasurers.
There is no other logical reason for ALIPAC to suddenly pay $5,000 to the U.S. Treasury, and start paying payroll taxes each month, after several years of paying nothing. Shame on ALIPAC for throwing rocks at immigrants claiming they don’t pay taxes, when they do through payroll deduction like the rest of us, and all the while ALIPAC wasn’t paying employer taxes or withholding income taxes from employee’s wages either! What hypocrisy!
ALIPAC.us gets away with this crap too often. Every time their caught doing something they put up a smokescreen of lies. The evidence is overwhelmingly on the watchman’s side. Gheen you idiot, just admit you screwed up. Lying is only making it worse.
Peeps, check Hispanic Business. I would take diz shit down. Those biotches bob1388 and Tony Cheek are making us looke like xenophobe racist. Lies are not helping immigrants and family. Those two assholes have posted all this stupid shit all over.
DamnMexican disabled the post about this.
Yo, yo yo!
Diz shizit iz da reel deel.
Unlike “Martinez’” 90s rapper patois, fo’ shizzle.
Bob received a letter from the IRS in response to his complaint against ALI-PAC. He also received a form to file in order to receive his reward for turning in ALI-PAC. He initially just wanted to put the reward money toward the National Debt, but we managed to talk him into donating the money to Pottsville – in Gheen’s name. Although 10% of $5,000 won’t stretch too far, it’s the thought that counts.
Bob hasn’t as yet filed for the reward.
Do the math. Total tax payments reported by ALIPAC in Q2 add up to $9,211.36 or 68.23% of wages. Without the $5,000 “payroll tax” payment direct to the U.S. Treasury, taxes are 31.2% of wages, which is in-line with state and local income taxes, social security, medicare, and unemployment taxes. Note that except for the $5,000 payment all taxes paid and withheld went through a payroll service.
Prior to Q2 of 2008, ALIPAC never reported even a penny of payroll taxes paid or income taxes withheld.
Gheen claims having only one employee had something to do with this, but ALIPAC has had two employees for years, and even if they had only one paid employee employer taxes are still owed to our government, even for non-profits.
The evidence that ALIPAC.US paid no payroll taxes is in plain view for all to see.
All federal political action committees, including ALIPAC.US, are required to file detailed financial reports to the FEC, which includes disbursements. Here’s a link to all of ALIPAC.US’s electronic filings:
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00405878/
Earlier paper filings can also be found on the FEC web site.
Prior to April 2008 ALIPAC.US’s own FEC reports show monthly payroll to Gheen and their treasurer, but no payroll taxes.
After being reported to the IRS by The Watchman, suddenly in April 2008 ALIPAC.US started paying employer taxes and withholding income taxes from wages through a payroll service. On top of that is a $5,000 payment for “payroll taxes” direct to the U.S. Treasury.
ALIPAC.US’s total disbursements for taxes in Q2 were 68% of payroll, which is extraordinarily high. Without the $5,000 payment (a fine?) taxes were 31% of wages, in line with what one would expect.
Here’s a summary for Q2 of 2008:
$5,000.00
Date Description Amount
4/11/2008 Federal and State Withholding $1,417.12
4/14/2008 William Gheen $3,063.48
5/15/2008 Federal and State Withholding $1,409.12
5/15/2008 Jane Patterson $461.75
5/16/2008 William Gheen $3,063.48
6/3/2008 Jane Patterson $461.75
6/6/2008 Federal and State Withholding $1,385.12
6/16/2008 William Gheen $3,063.48
6/23/2008 Jane Patterson $461.75
4/24/2008 U.S. Treasury (”Payroll Taxes”
Now here’s one for Q1 of 2008:
1/11/2008 William Gheen $4,000.00
2/4/2008 William Gheen $4,000.00
3/5/2008 William Gheen $4,000.00
Zero payroll taxes and withheld income taxes were disbursed in Q1 of 2008 and prior years! In other words, ALIPAC.US didn’t pay a penny of payroll taxes nor withhold income taxes from wages, at the same time ALIPAC.US was trashing immigrants falsely claiming immigrants don’t pay taxes!
Notice how the ALIPACers scurry away as soon as their lies are exposed and they begin losing the debate?
The evidence posted here and on other web sites regarding ALIPAC’s non-payment of taxes before April 2008 is irrefutable.
Unfortunately, Gheen is too much of a coward to come here and explain his actions as President of ALIPAC, or better yet to admit the errors and apologize for the lapses in obeying the ‘rule of law’ he so often mentions when promoting his anti-immigrant agenda.
Based on evidence presented, methinks this post will stand. It has transcended mere “allegations”
ALIPAC.US needs to follow the rule of law, which states employers must pay payroll taxes and withhold income taxes from wages.
When will these people from ALIPAC.US understand that illegal is illegal? What part of “illegal” don’t they understand?
“We are in full compliance with the FEC.”
Well apparently the FEC doesn’t think so. The FEC sent a demand letter requiring ALIPAC.US to provide missing contributor information for more than 50 donors.
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?F28039802932
If ALIPAC.US doesn’t comply with the FEC’s demand by 8/29/08, the FEC is threatening enforcement action, including heavy fines.
More on financial irregularities, non-payment of taxes, etc.:
http://www.alipac.net/bored/index.php?topic=1149.0
When will these people understand that illegal is illegal?
What part of “illegal” don’t they understand?