Did Prevo’s staff members acquire equity in Baptist Temple-owned homes?

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Did Prevo’s staff members acquire equity in Baptist Temple-owned homes?

Inquiry targets Anchorage Baptist Temple’s (ABT’s) tax exemptions

It appears that ABT’s claimed “tax exempt” status may have been fraudulent. For details, read the Anchorage Daily News account at http://www.adn.com/2012/01/14/2264456/inquiry-targets-church-tax-exemptions.html

Now we at Citizens for Ethical Government are wondering if ABT’s lengthy list of tax exempt automobiles shouldn’t also be under investigation. When license plates begin with a Y, that means they are tax exempt.

Click  Prevo’s Plates to view a list of over fifty tax exempt automobile license plates that are current and registered to ABT. In addition, see approximately thirty expired exempt plates registered to ABT.

With a municipal election coming up, I think the public deserves to know if Prevo’s apparent real property tax fraud is being investigated or swept under the rug to appease Prevo’s right wing voters..

On a related matter, when Clyde Baxley and I were first investigating Prevo’s exempt housing, we noted that Prevo’s first lieutenant Glenn Clary had left the church and the state. Simultaneous with Clary’s departure, the house the church had just finished and moved Mr. Clary into was sold.

Clyde and I consequently raised the question; if the home had been built to house a church employ, why wasn’t it being kept for Mr. Clary’s replacement? Could it be that Mr. Clary was expecting the equity to leave the state with him? Was it because the house didn’t really belong to the church as stated and required to get the exemption?

We raised these questions at the time, but just like the questions we raised about Veco, Bill Allen, and Ben Stevens the state came to the defense of the offender. Strange considering how much energy the state has been willing to spend shackling a young boy with a felony for painting a few murals and a 70 something back woods hermit for feeding the bears.

To see the list of exempt plates, click here…Prevo’s Plates

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Murkowski aims to transfer EPA’s air permitting clout

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U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, took another step in her battle against the Environmental Protection Agency, introducing language in a spending bill that would transfer some of the agency’s air-permitting authority to the Interior Department in hopes of accelerating Alaska’s offshore oil and gas development.

Read the full story: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/murkowski-aims-transfer-epas-air-permitting-clout

Alaska’s Young cleared in House ethics probe

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“The House Ethics Committee has cleared Rep. Don Young, Alaska Republican, of any wrongdoing related to donations to his legal expense fund, but the panel also changed the rules to make them clearer.

Mr. Young was accused of accepting 12 contributions of $5,000 to his legal expense fund from the same donor.”

Read the full story here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2011/dec/20/house-ethics-panel-clears-young/

 

Another crooked lawmaker cleared by Ethics Committee, says watchdog group

“In other words, this lawmaker violated House rules in his effort to defend himself in a bribery case involving Alaska’s ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ fiasco,” said political strategist Mike Baker.

http://www.examiner.com/law-enforcement-in-national/another-crooked-lawmaker-cleared-by-ethics-committee-says-watchdog-group

 

No Corporate Cash Controlling Montana’s Votes

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The Montana Supreme Court has just upheld the state’s ban on corporate spending in state elections, a ruling that stands in stark opposition to Citizens United and overturns a lower court’s ruling that had deemed Montana’s century-old ban on election spending unconstitutional.

The immensity of this moment – and the potential reverberations this ruling could have – cannot be overstated, for Montana’s highest court has provided a blueprint for how other states can contravene the Citizens United decision in state and local elections.

 

Read the full article at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/31/1050271/-MONTANA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Big margins in Point Lay, Nuiqsut gave Brower lead in North Slope election

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The campaign was colored by the indictment of Ahmaogak’s wife, Maggie, for embezzling some $475,000 from the Alaska Eskimo Commission just weeks before the election…Brower’s husband, Eugene, plead guilty to tax evasion when he was borough mayor in the 1980s.

Read the full article by Carey Restino | The Arctic Sounder at
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/big-margins-point-lay-nuiqsut-gave-brower-lead-north-slope-election