>"Bryan K" wrote in message
>news:DK3Eh.16709$M42.6664@fe11.news.easynews.com...

>>> Malmuth gave them a chance to provide honest answers to legitimate
>>> questions. If they'd given decent answers, they could have been endorsed
>>> by twoplustwo. Instead, they got this:
>>> http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=8351829

>>> That was over two months ago. Would a legitimate organization sit by and
>>> do nothing, and not even respond, while such a damning indictment by one
>>> of
>>> the true voices of poker sat on the official site of Two Plus Two?

>But they did post their income tax return, so you can take a look at it and
>see how the money was spent.

I didn't know that, so I went looking for it. http://www.pokerplayersalliance.org/pdf/PPA05Public990.pdf Like most 990s, it doesn't provide much detail. It's just expenditures in general categories, with no way of judging whether those expenditures were on anything sensible or effective.

It's not hugely impressive. In fact, the most immediately apparent thing about it was that it was only filed December 12, 2006, despite being a tax filing for the year 2005.

Coincidentally, Mason Malmuth posted his criticism of the PPA three days previously, on December 9, 2006. http://tinyurl.com/2scss6

So what this 990 shows is that the PPA is the kind of organization that doesn't bother to file its tax return until someone starts nosing around asking questions.

Whoops!

For a confidence-building exercise, I suggest PPA try filing its taxes this year at least in the neighborhood of April 15. December 12 is a little more than fashionably late.