Chengyan
Wang was cleaning up at the Shanghai Taste restaurant when a robber
broke in. Wang tried to fight back and was shot 11 times. The officer on
the scene in Las Vegas said that the Chinese waiter “was bleeding all over his body and appeared as if he was going to die.”
“I
can still vividly remember when the first police officer on the scene
immediately helped me stop the bleeding on my neck,” Wang recalled. “He
was there the whole time encouraging me and making sure I stay awake and
stay conscious and not fall asleep.”
Wang
credits his
“second chance in life” to “God’s grace.” And he fought back, not only
against the criminals, but against the wealthy interests that enabled
the murderous attack on him.
Rashawn Gaston-Anderson, the vicious
thug who shot him, was only on the loose because a bail fund known as
The Bail Project posted bond for him. The career criminal had been
arrested a month earlier on weapons charges. In 48 hours
he was arrested for burglary and larceny, and pled guilty to grand larceny while getting off with probation.
Wang
came after The Bail Project, which had been backed by wealthy
celebrities like Lizzo, John Legend, Danny Glover, Lil Nas X, Miss USA
Asya Branch, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer of Broad City, Richard
Branson, and others, suing it over what happened to him
The
panicked pro-crime group responded by shutting down operations in Vegas.
It however continues to aid and enable criminals around the country.
In St. Louis, the Bail Project
bailed out a man after
he beat his wife. That night, he beat her again resulting in “a broken
eye socket, several broken ribs, and (bruises) from head to toe.”
She died.
Robin Steinberg, a key figure in pro-crime bail funds,
insisted, “No one could have predicted this tragedy.”
Who
could have predicted that freeing a man who beat his wife would lead
him to kill her or that freeing criminals would lead to crime? There
have been so many repeat incidents that the Bail Project has lost even
the last tattered shreds of plausible deniability.
In Indianapolis,
the Bail Project freed Marcus Garvin after he was arrested for stabbing a man. Garvin then stabbed Christie Holt and
left her body to rot in a motel for a week before trying to dismember her. It freed Deonta Williams who then stabbed two cops in an ambush.
The Bail Project
freed a thug who was facing drug and burglary charges. Lang then shot and killed Dylan McGinnis. Nikki Sterling, Dylan’s mother
has become a crusader
against bail funds, warning that, “This organization is bailing out
violent offenders. These are not your misdemeanor charges. We are
putting violent criminals back out on the street.”
The Bail
Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. That means that it’s really being
subsidized by taxpayers. The $33 million in donations that poured into
the pro-crime group in 2021, $19 million of which were used to bail out
criminals, were treated as tax deductible contributions. Millions have
gone tax free to free criminals and inflict horrors on ordinary people
like these.
This was done in defiance of the tax code. And so it
was the IRS that really enabled the near murder of Chengyan Wang, the
brutal killing of Christie Holt and the murder of Dylan McGinnis.
Internal Radical Service
by David Horowitz and John Perazzo, a pamphlet from the David Horowitz
Freedom Center, had delved into the abuse of the tax code by radical
nonprofits
IRS regulations specifically state that “exempt
purposes may generally be equated with the public good, and violations
of law are the antithesis of the public good”. They clearly lay out
that, “violation of constitutionally valid laws is inconsistent with
exemption under IRC 501(c)(3)” and that “planned activities that violate
laws are not in furtherance of a charitable purpose”.
Was the
shooting of Chengyan Wang really in the public good? If “violations of
law are the antithesis of the public good”, how can setting violators
loose be tax exempt?
The Bail Project is not alone.
In St.
Paul, the Minnesota Freedom Fund set loose Shawn Michael Tillman. Three
weeks later, he opened fire at a light rail station killing another
black man.
Sex offender Christopher Don Boswell
who was accused
of sexual assault and kidnapping, and who had previously convicted in
two previous sexual assault cases, got his $350,000 bail paid.
George Howard, accused of domestic abuse, was bailed out and
a few weeks later allegedly shot and killed a Latino man driving on the I-94.
Other
beneficiaries of the MFF’s pro-crime activities included a man who
opened fire at police during the riots, and another who had weapons and
drugs in his car.
Some of these cases became notorious because
Kamala Harris had urged, “If you’re able to, chip in now to the
@MNFreedomFund.” In the wake of violent Black Lives Matter race riots,
celebrities like Seth Rogen, Steve Carrell, Don Cheadle and Cynthia
Nixon, had poured money into MFF. And the IRS allowed the Minnesota
Freedom Fund to operate as a 501(c)(3).
Does the IRS believe that freeing sex predators and murderers is in the “public good”.
There
are currently bail funds in 37 states. The vast majority of them are
also registered nonprofits that operate in defiance of the tax code with
the complicity of the IRS.
And they are spreading pain, misery and taking countless lives.
In Seattle, 51-year-old Ivette Wallin became the
first murder victim
of 2023. Her alleged killer had been bailed out by the Northwest
Community Bail Fund after he was involved in another domestic violence
incident. The fund, which is another 501(c)(3), also bailed out a man
facing gun charges who broke into a home and shot a father of four. The
pro-crime fund bailed out a man accused of assault who then went out and
stabbed a man to death in City Hall Park.
Bail
fund organizers tend to argue that such horror stories are outliers,
but local prosecutors found that the majority of those bailed out by the
bail fund never showed up in court.
What exactly is the “public good” involved in keeping half of criminals from appearing in court?
That’s a question that the IRS should be made to answer.
In Portland, Mohamed Osman Adan, a Somali Muslim immigrant, with six domestic violence
complaints, was bailed out by the Portland Freedom Fund.
Rachael Abraham, his girlfriend, had called the police after he beat, choked her, and struck her with Islamic ‘prayer beads’.
Adam allegedly
kneeled on her throat and told her, “I should kill you”.
After the Portland Freedom Fund bailed him out, police found Rachael’s body covered in cuts with her blood soaking the carpet.
The
PFF claims that there was no way that it could have known that a serial
domestic abuser who was arrested for threatening to kill a woman would,
if freed, finish the job. But
statistics show that,
like its Seattle counterpart, the majority of criminals it bailed out
violated release agreements or didn’t show up in court. Others bailed
out
included
“Malik Muhammad, a man later sentenced to 10 years in prison for
throwing Molotov cocktails at police” along with others facing “serious
charges including attempted murder, assault and strangulation”.
The PFF’s listed fiscal sponsor, the Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media and Education, is a 501(c)(3).
Perhaps
someone can ask the IRS how Rachael’s murder or throwing Molotov
cocktails at police serves the “public good” or what it has to do with
“alternative media and education”.
The bail fund body count continues to pile up nationwide.
The
Massachusetts Bail Fund freed a thug who had violently assaulted a
police officer and been accused of assault and battery in Boston, who
then went on to
stab a 29-year-old woman to death. The Louisville Community Bail Fund and BLM bailed out an activist after he
shot at a mayoral
candidate. The Massachusetts Bail Fund is a 501(c)(3) while the
Louisville Community Bail Fund’s fiscal sponsor is the Soros-funded
Alliance for Global Justice: a 501(c)(3).
Does the IRS believe that shooting political candidates is a form of the “public good”?
While
the IRS targets conservative organizations, pro-crime bail funds have
unleashed a wave of terror across the country. Even in the few cases
documented here, bail funds have led to ten murders, attempted murders,
like those of Chengyan Wang, and numerous other crimes.
Bail
funds have led to assaults on police officers, the murder of abused
women and multiple killings of black people. These crimes were not only
enabled by radical leftist administrators and donors, but by the IRS
which has failed to enforce tax codes and treats them as nonprofits.
Ten people, white, Latino and black, male and female, young and old are dead because of it.
Ten
people, Marcia Johnson, Christie Holt, Dylan McGinnis, Demitri G.
Ellis-Strong, Luis Martinez Ortiz, Ivette Wallin, Damon Allen, Bradley
Arabie, Ugochukwu Anaele and Rachael Abraham, lost their lives to bail
funds and the criminal dereliction of duty by the IRS.
Say their names. Say them until the IRS does its job.
