LOS ANGELES — More than a year after a Los Angeles Times investigation into the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a pair of congresswomen have sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service, asking for an investigation into the organization's tax-exempt status.
"For more than a year, entertainment and national media outlets have detailed the seemingly corrupt and unacceptable deal making patterns of HFPA," wrote Rep. Joyce Beatty, D–Ohio, who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, and Rep. Brenda L. Lawrence, D–Mich., vice chair of the House Committee on Appropriations, in a letter Monday.
"We believe at minimum, HFPA's current leadership has colluded to benefit themselves, either directly or indirectly and therefore violated the IRS statute," they wrote.
