Liz Day Posts

Move America Forward says its main work is raising funds to send care packages to American troops in Afghanistan. Launched in part by Sal Russo, a political consultant who would become one of the most prominent figures in the Tea Party movement, the charity has won support from high-profile conservatives in politics and entertainment. However, a recent story reported that Move America Forward had misled donors and funneled millions to charity insiders and their businesses, according to tax records, fundraising appeals, other documents and interviews.

Over the last year, a rabbi, a state NAACP official, a small town mayor and other community leaders wrote op-eds and letters to Congress with remarkably similar language on a remarkably obscure topic. Each railed against a long-standing proposal that would give taxpayers the option to use pre-filled tax returns. And each may have been misled by lobbyists working for the maker of TurboTax.