Thursday 22 September 2022 06:53 PM Facebook CEO, wife cited in alleged plot to sway 2020 presidential election in ... trends now
A conservative think tank has filed a legal complaint against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan over allegations they spent $500 million to help Joe Biden win the 2020 election.
Chan and Zuckerberg are cited in one of two complaints filed with the Internal Revenue Service by the Center for Renewing America (CRA), a conservative nonprofit run by former deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought.
According to FOX Business, the complaints filed with the IRS allege that the high ranking Facebook officials attempted to sway the 2020 presidential election in favor of now President Joe Biden with $500 million funneled through nonprofit, tax-exempt voting rights groups.
CRA says the donations should have been eligible for taxation, because they were used for electioneering.
CRA also filed a second complaints against the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) and National Vote at Home Institute (NVAHI), claiming that they played a major role in the scheme to help now President Biden win the vote.
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan pictured together at an event
The complaints go on to argue that Zuckerberg hired former campaign manager for President Barack Obama, David Plouffe, to execute the scheme.
CRA believes that Chan and Zuckerberg created major million dollar grants and that Plouffe sent the money to democratic-leaning areas in swing states.
The think tank also alleges that Plouffe used the three nonprofit organizations to help pull off the plan.
Those are tax exempt, with the CRA saying that exemption was improper in the case of the grants, and that tax should have been paid on the donations, given the purpose they were allegedly used for.
In a statement shared with FOX Business, CRA said that Chan and Zuckerberg
