Mueller Likely Got Access to NRA Tax Filings

Legal experts say it’s likely that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators — who are looking at the NRA’s funding as part of a broader inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections — secretly gained access to the group’s tax returns, McClatchy reports.

“On the returns, the group was required to identify its so-called ‘dark money’ donors — companies and wealthy individuals who financed $21 million of the group’s publicly disclosed pro-Trump spending, as well as its multimillion-dollar efforts to heighten voter turnout. The NRA’s nonprofit status allows it to shield those donors’ names from the public, but not the IRS.”