This next week, the Shriners will be swarming Las Vegas to support the Justin Timberlake Golf Tournament benefitting their hospitals. Hanging out with the rich and famous; living like rock stars on charitable donations; basking in the limelight as reporters buzz about how these old guys in funny red hats help the kids while having fun.
That’s their motto.
Helping kids while having fun.
The Shriners operate a $5 billion network of 22 hospitals that provides free medical care to burned and crippled children.
But before a man can be a Shriner, he must first be a Master Mason.
Turns out that the Shriners are led by members of their own secret sub-group, the Royal Order of Jesters.
Last year, three Jesters were caught in an FBI human trafficking sting out of Buffalo, New York. They all pled guilty to taking an illegal alien prostitute to one of their weekend parties in Ashland, Kentucky. Those caught were a retired police captain, a former New York State Supreme Court Judge and his law clerk.
All pleaded guilty to violating the Mann Act, apparently on official Jester business. This means deducting their expenses because the Jesters are a nonprofit fraternity.
The judge is in federal prison for 18 months because he got hookers for Jester parties in Florida, Pennsylvania and Canada.. His sentence was reduced for helping the FBI investigate the Jesters for the sexual exploitation of minors and foreign travel for those purposes.
In another case, the fishing tour operator who took 19 Jesters fishing on the Amazon was indicted by the Brazilian federal police for using underage prostitutes to lure North American customers. Former fishing tour operator and real estate salesman Richard Schair had sued a competitor for alleging he was involved with prostitution. A witness list for the defense named 19 Jesters who were expected to testify about their first hand knowledge of drug use, sex with prostitutes and with minor prostitutes.
Depositions provided by fishing guides testified that the Jesters asked to be called "Masons" and for girls over 13.
On June 19, 2009, Schair submitted an application for habeas corpus to a Brazilian federal judge, asking her to dismiss the case against him, though he'd been indicted by the Brazilian federal police six weeks earlier.
She denied his application because it lacked merit.
The witness list named a Las Vegas financial consultant, Samuel "Scutter" Newton, also a member of the Las Vegas Court #181. He’s listed on the latest Jester tax return as a national officer.
Turns out that the Jesters weren’t so secret after former Nevada Assemblyman Joe E. Dini Jr.:
"DECLARED, That the members of the Assembly of the State of Nevada hereby express a hearty welcome to the Royal Order of Jesters, Reno Court 33 and Las Vegas Court 181, and the Shrine of North America in their endeavors to provide fun and fellowship for its members and to bring necessary medical treatment to children across the United States. Declared by the Assembly March 9, 2001."
So, some attorney convinced the IRS to grant the Jesters tax exempt status to "spread the gospel of merriment and mirth."
This translates to throwing weekend parties called "The Book of the Play."
Tax returns show the Jesters spent $600,000 on one.
That's over $12,000 a minute.
This redacted "Jester Girl Code of Conduct" indicates that Jesters secure prostitutes rooms and implies that they submit certificates, presumably proving that they're disease free.
All these groups, the Masons, the Shriners and the Jesters, are nonprofit, meaning that they pay no or significantly reduced taxes for providing social benefit. Members are also prohibited from any benefit; financial, professional, personal, or otherwise.
The real crime is hiding behind burned and crippled children and using those clueless Shriners who dedicate their lives to driving goofy little cars in parades or putting on clown make up at zero dawn thirty to drive a hundred miles so they can twist up animal balloons and put a smile on the bandaged face of a badly burned baby.
The real criminals here are those “pillars of the community” who have hijacked the IRS and taken advantage of us, all of us, so they can party with prostitutes at tax payer expense.
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