In April, the Muslim Public Affairs Council Foundation applied for a loan to help pay its employees during COVID. Using the The Paycheck Protection Program established under the
Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, it received a loan of $166,080 from a lender, backed up by the Small Business Association.
A year later, in August 2021, MPACF applied for loan forgiveness and the SBA reimbursed the lender $168,182.
Total revenue of $4M and expenses of almost $1.5M.
And of those expenses, the amount they paid in salaries was ..zero.
That's right. MPACF had no employees in 2020, when they applied for a "paycheck protection" loan and then for forgiveness on that loan.
Interestingly ,the related Muslim Public Affairs Council does have employees - and paid over $900K in payroll in 2020. But unlike MPACF, which is a 501(c)(3) organization, MPAC is a501(c)(4) - and was ineligible for the Paycheck Protection Program. Not only that, but the employees that MPACF claimed to be paying in its application were really MPAC employees.
In short, MPACF ripped off the US government.
A whistleblower lawyer, David Abrams, noticed this and told the government, which then went after MPACF. They just settled the case and MPACF is paying back $185,000.
MPAC is a pro-Hamas, terror supporting organization. Its
press release on October 7, 2023 pretends to condemn "both sides" but it blames Israel for Hamas' murdering, raping and burning Jews:
To truly understand what is happening, we must look to the source of the problem; an ongoing occupation in violation of international human rights law that has left the Palestinian people, in particular Gazans, stripped of their basic rights and human dignity. By actively, and often violently, preventing their pursuit of a self-defined identity, national autonomy, and global recognition, Israeli occupation and the world’s continued silence has offered Hamas and other groups the political vacuum needed to propel themselves into positions of leadership and justify their violent attacks.
Why would anyone think that a pro-Hamas organization wouldn't try to collect its jizya tax from the dhimmi United States government that it wants to overthrow?
Oh, is that too strong? The Form 990 describes one of MPACF's purposes as "EDUCATION OF ALL AMERICANS REGARDING THE TEACHINGS OF ISLAM".
That means trying to convert all Americans to Islam and make the US into an Islamic state.