Hawaii Reporter - IRS Probes Former GOP Leader’s Ties to Maui Tea Party

By Malia Zimmerman, HawaiiReporter.com

Former Hawaii Republican Party Executive Director Dylan Nonaka has a notable, but certainly not relished, distinction.

Nokaka, a 31-year-old former U.S. Marine and current U.S. Army reservist, believes he is one of the few individuals in the country to be named by the Internal Revenue Service in its probe of local tea parties. . . .

Jim Wagoner, a retired Maui businessman, former Maui Chamber of Commerce president and acting president of the Maui Tea Party, said he’d never seen anything like the IRS inquiry.

“Our president was so disgusted that he went to the local IRS office, but unfortunately he could not get any straight answers. They put him on the line with the IRS representative in Cincinnati, but our president could not get anything concrete. There were just so many silly questions,” Wagoner said.

The ACLJ took the case pro-bono.

Jay Sekulow, that group’s chief counsel, maintains the “unconstitutional scheme” continues, and said legal action is the only way to stop the abuse. . . .

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