IRS revoked police union’s 501.c3 after convicted tax cheat cop didn’t file returns
EAST CLEVELAND, OH – The twice-convicted police captain leading East Cleveland’s detective bureau may soon find himself facing new criminal charges after Ohio’s State Employee Relations Board (SERB) investigates why Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Lodge #39 is still in existence. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) automatically revoked FOP Lodge #39’s tax-exempt status in 2013 after its president, Captain Scott Gardner, failed to file required 990 tax returns in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The last 990 was filed for 2009.  EJBNEWS has learned no 990’s were filed between 2010 and 2018.  For the past 10 years Gardner and other Lodge #39 officials…