In addition to asking the US Attorney to bring criminal charges against CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan, ChristinePAC filed an official IRS complaint against the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW), asking the agency to revoke CREW's tax-exempt status. Acting as a "charitable organization," CREW is barred from intervening in political campaigns ("electioneering") as well as participating in discriminatory activities. Assuming they are above the law, over a period of several election cycles, CREW has abused its tax-exempt status by blatantly acting on behalf of the Democratic Party as well as establishing a pattern of racially discriminatory activities.

“The justice system should not be used as a political weapon, and CREW's illegal partisan campaign intervention in my US Senate race are well documented. Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize an organization that acts in deliberate violation of the law. CREW deceptively and illegally posed as a non-partisan 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization keeping Washington politicians in check. However, in reality, CREW recklessly abused its tax exempt status by illegally intervening in political campaigns. CREW’s attacks disproportionately targeted Republican candidates and officeholders, while outright ignored scandals involving Democratic candidates and officeholders,” said former Delaware U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell.

ChristinePAC also called for an investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of CREW’s Executive Director Melanie Sloan for mail fraud, wire fraud and knowingly filing a false federal claim against Ms. O’Donnell. Sloan’s false claim against O’Donnell was ultimately dismissed by the U.S. Attorney’s office as the politically motivated nonsense that it was. Ms. Sloan’s leftist roots run deep as she’s worked for some of the most strident liberals in Congress, including Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). In a pattern of suspicious actions surrounding CREW’s false claim against O’Donnell, Sloan failed to disclose that she used her own father (and Biden major donor) as the complainant in CREW’s FEC Complaint filed only days after Christine O’Donnell won the Republican nomination for the US Senate in 2010.

“The IRS must scrutinize CREW’s expenditures and will find a history of CREW’s blatant and illegal political activities, supported by its liberal sources of funding, which include George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and the Tides Foundation,” said Cleta Mitchell, Attorney for ChristinePAC. “There is no question that CREW has forfeited its charitable status and the IRS can draw no other conclusion.”

“When someone so blatantly breaks the law, as Melanie Sloan has, and wastes scarce government resources and tax payer dollars to carry out a political vendetta, she should face the consequences,” O’Donnell said further explaining the reason for her complaint. “Since CREW’s founding, Sloan has continually tried to use the tax payer’s dime to carry out Soros’ and her political agenda. I believe when the authorities review the mountain evidence we’ve presented to them, they, too will see it so clearly corroborates our claim.
ChristinePAC is fighting to STOP this corruption.”