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	Legal Fund Aims to Defy Irs Ban Detroit Free Press May 10, 2008 http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080510/NEWS07/805100349 Conservative legal advocates are recruiting pastors nationwide to defy an IRS ban on preaching about politicians, in a challenge they hope will abolish the restriction. The Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund is to ask clergy to deliver a sermon about specific candidates Sept. 28. If that triggers an Internal Revenue Service investigation, the group is to sue to overturn the rule, which was enacted in 1954. Mike Johnson, senior counsel for the fund, said Friday that about 100 pastors have expressed interest. Americans United for Separation of Church and State said it will notify the IRS of any pastor who participates. TRENTON, N.J.: Mayor resigns over funds Samuel Rivera resigned Friday as mayor of Passaic City after he pleaded guilty to attempted extortion and admitted accepting $5,000 in cash to influence government contracts. Rivera, a former police officer, is the latest of about 130 public officials to be found guilty of corruption in New Jersey since 2002.
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