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	<title>Minnesota Independent &#187; step into world peace</title>
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		<title>Coleman backers also steer inchoate peace group</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 19:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Steller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Goodman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Silverstein]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/bandana2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35647" title="bandana2" src="http://minnesotaindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/bandana2-122x150.jpg" alt="bandana2" width="90" height="111" /></a>Minnesota businessmen <a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/12753/kazeminy-helps-coleman-coleman-helps-kazeminy">Nasser Kazeminy</a> and <a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/11295/the-crunch-party-bigwigs-opperman-and-cummins-among-top-30-donors">John Goodman</a> both back Norm Coleman and both serve on the board of <a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2009/05/hbc-90005054">Step into World Peace,</a> a curious local nonprofit that Harper&#8217;s Ken Silverstein <a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2009/05/hbc-90005047">probes this week</a>. <span id="more-35645"></span>Silverstein finds vague goals, a&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/bandana2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35647" title="bandana2" src="http://minnesotaindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/bandana2-122x150.jpg" alt="bandana2" width="90" height="111" /></a>Minnesota businessmen <a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/12753/kazeminy-helps-coleman-coleman-helps-kazeminy">Nasser Kazeminy</a> and <a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/11295/the-crunch-party-bigwigs-opperman-and-cummins-among-top-30-donors">John Goodman</a> both back Norm Coleman and both serve on the board of <a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2009/05/hbc-90005054">Step into World Peace,</a> a curious local nonprofit that Harper&#8217;s Ken Silverstein <a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2009/05/hbc-90005047">probes this week</a>. <span id="more-35645"></span>Silverstein finds vague goals, a <a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2009/05/hbc-90005054">shuttered Web site</a> and no direct ties to Coleman &#8212; whose campaigns the pair have funded heavily and whose finances have drawn <a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/35475/who-paid-for-norm-colemans-knee-surgery">increasing scrutiny</a> since Silverstein alleged last year that <a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003661">Kazeminy bought Coleman&#8217;s suits</a>.</p>
<p>But Silverstein finds plenty to ponder when it comes to SIWP&#8217;s finances. The group has little to show for $88,000 it has spent out of the $110,000 it has raised &#8212; some $40,000 of which went to unspecified &#8220;contract labor&#8221; from 2002 to 2004.</p>
<p>Goodman and Kazeminy were <a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/21277/coleman-pal-kazeminy-funnels-50000-to-fire-victims">last linked doing good deeds</a> after an apartment building Goodman owns burned last December. Each was reported to have put $50,000 into a fund for victims of the fire, only to have those gifts overshadowed by an anonymous $1 million donation.</p>
<p>But Kazeminy and Goodman won&#8217;t return Silverstein&#8217;s calls about SIWP, so his questions about where the group&#8217;s money went may stay unanswered unless the Internal Revenue Service investigates, finds fault and makes an enforcement action public. Silverstein concludes:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8230; the foundation has raised and spent about $100,000 but has done, as far as I can tell, virtually nothing to honor the victims of 9/11 or to “remind the world…that it cannot be allowed to happen again.”</p>
<p>So what exactly is the purpose of this IRS-approved non-profit organization?</p></blockquote>
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