Ready for this BREAKING Earwitness News report?
Here's what GA heard last week:
(Councilwoman) Beth Mason's charity is shutting down.And from a second source:
Beth and Ricky are dismantling the Mason Civic League. I guess Ricky pulled the plug.Wow. GA has noticed Mason pulled her weekly Gallery 1200 ad from page 3 of The Hoboken Reporter- last week it had been replaced by one for John Castellano's BoE slate. ( John Castellano is the Treasurer for Russo for Hoboken, currently being looked at for the disappearance of 18K from it's bank account)
Here's the history of Mason's 501(c)(3) The Mason Civic League, Inc.
1. The Mason Family
Civic League, Inc.'s Certificate of Incorporation was filed
on July 21, 2010.
The Board members are Beth Mason,
Ricky Mason and James Barracato, Mason political operative.
2. The Mason Family Civic League, Inc, was registered as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable organization with the NJ Division of Consumer Affairs on December 7, 2009 7 months before it was incorporated.
3. Beth and Ricky
Mason opened a 'community art gallery' Gallery 1200 on October 7, 2011 in Mason's former 2nd Ward
City Council campaign headquarters, 1200 Washington
Street. The Gallery was sponsored by the Masons'
501(3)(c), which they refer to by the alias "The Mason Family Civic
League." The Mason Family Civic
League does not exist as a registered
business or a charity- it is not a legal
name. http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2011/09/gallery_1200_to_offer_hoboken.html
4. Beth and Ricky Mason use the unregistered alias "The Mason Family Civic League" instead of
the charity's legal, registered name "The Mason Civic League, Inc." in
print media, online, advertising, even in Ricky Mason's Wachtell bio: http://i45.tinypic.com/2gtvjpv.jpg
5. The Mason Civic League, Inc. has NOT filed NJ
state-mandated annual income and expense reports to the NJ Attorney General's
Office since it's inception 3 years ago- See Charitable Registration and Investigative
Act, N.J.S.A. 45:17A-33 (page 21): http://www.njconsumeraffairs.gov/laws/charitylaws.pdf
6. The Mason Civic League, Inc.
employs political operatives.
Tax-exempt charities are NOT permitted to participate in
political activities. Political operatives Matt Calicchio and Tania
Garcia are employed by the Mason Civic League, Inc. This was revealed in open court in Union
City on June
7, 2012 at the trial of Matt Calicchio. Calicchio was charged with harassing BoE Trustee Theresa Minutillo
on public school premises last October 2011- in the presence of Minutillo's 5 year-old daughter.
In court, Calicchio AND
his witness Tania Garcia (sister in law of BoE member Kids First opponent Carmelo Garcia) were both called
"political operatives" by Judge Sixto Macias. BOTH admitted they worked and were paid for
by "The Mason Family Civic"
7. Mason filed IRS
tax form 990-N( e-Postcard) federal tax returns for the Mason Civic League, Inc. in years 2010 ( http://tinyurl.com/cpjnoxz) and 2011 (http://tinyurl.com/c5kzd6f). The 990-N (e-Postcard) form is restricted to charities with gross
receipts of $50K or less : http://i46.tinypic.com/28iqid1.jpg The e-Postcard is extremely simple and only asks for basic
info: tax period, EIN, legal name, mailing address, doing business as, gross
receipts, principal's name and address.
Gallery1200's annual rent is estimated $36K-$48K, it has (at least) 2
full-time employees- Matt Calicchio and Tania Garcia, plus an 'art curator'. Instead of the e-Postcard Beth Mason SHOULD have filed IRS form 990: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f990.pdf a detailed and rigorous line-item audit of
income, expenses, etc .
Now, how did ALL this information enter the public domain?
Here on Grafix Avenger.
Sleuth One-Eye and GA broke the story in a 3-part series on June 9, 11, 12:
June 11, 2012:
http://grafixavenger.blogspot.com/2012/06/bombshell-mason-finboy-non-profit-sham.html
And guess what happened on June 13, 2012?
GA's first recorded visit by a certain Cincinnati, Ohio law firm. Click HERE to see what they came for.
Does anyone remember that catchy tune,"Video Killed the Radio Star"? So what put the kibosh on Mason's charity?
SUNLIGHT.
I showed you all????
ReplyDeleteNever too early for all the participants in this darling little affair to go shopping for Halloween costumes.
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha! Good one, Grizzy!
DeleteSo when are you going to write another dispatch for me? I've missed you.
We're putting the finishing touches on an investigative piece about Beth Mason's doppel-ganger.
DeleteOur focus group said it was incredibly hard to follow and had some of them hitting the bottle just to sit through it.
We're wondering if you could shorten that to "Hard-hitting Investigative Journalism" for marketing purposes.
Remember, this is Beth Mason so just b/c she is shutting the charity down that doesn't mean anything. They probably are just shutting this down b/c of the scrutiny and planning on picking up the slack elsewhere. I would not expect the ads, the support of Russo & company or her political expenditures to end at all.
ReplyDeleteNot that silly little things like morals, ethics, truth, facts and proper legal procedures ever concern them, but exactly how could they have obtained 501(c)(3) status BEFORE incorporating? That's a federal designation conferred on well-vetted organizations by the IRS, not something you order by the five-gallon pail, like a certain type of foundation makeup (free application trowel as gift-with-purchase).
ReplyDeleteAnd, as an aside, the NY Times ran an article a week or so ago outlining how one whistle-blower received a huge paycheck from the IRS for providing information on a tax-cheat. Imagine that. The guys set for life and all he had to do was TELL THE TRUTH.
There must be a story there to explain why the Masons are quietly folding the 501(c)(3) but we have no media to investigate. The one we have gets their 'news' from political operatives, accepts Photoshopped documents, makes up stories about Roman Brice and hypes allegations against me- while burying my 'side' at the end of a 3-page story.
DeleteThat's the Hoboken Reporter- the crap we have for media and why I use that paper as a litter box walk-off mat.
The timeline is interesting, don't you think?