Fwd: Internal Revenue Service

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

Hi -

In case you're exposing the Section 527 returns, please be aware of  
the following issues ...

Carl

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Carl Malamud <xxxxxxx@media.org>
> Date: September 14, 2009 3:05:48 PM PDT
> To: "Sedberry, Tom" <xxxxxxx@jw.com>
> Cc: "Hamner, Judy" <xxxxxxx@jw.com>, Vickie Grant <xxxxxxx@jw.com>
> Subject: Re: Internal Revenue Service
>
> Hi -
>
> I've redacted the following files:
>
> http://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (no issues found in this file)
>
> http://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxdf
> (big problems)
>
> http://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxdf
> (big problems)
>
> http://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxdf
> http://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxdf
> (big problems in both of the above)
>
> http://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxdf
> (this file appears to be all right)
>
> http://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxdf
> http://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxdf
> (the above 2 files appear to have no problems)
>
> http://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxdf
> http://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxdf
> (both of the above had real problems)
>
> In addition, I've also notified "Google Webmaster Tools" and listed  
> all of the above files in my robots.txt file.  That means in a  
> couple of days, Google will delete this information from their  
> cache.  However, other search engines such as Yahoo often take  
> longer to update their systems.
>
> For the files that you have problems, you should look around the net  
> to see if other people have these files.  You can do that by opening  
> the files up, picking some names inside, and doing some searches.   
> You can also search for the file names.
>
> Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.   
> Please be very clear that there are almost surely going to be other  
> copies of this public data that surfaces, so you're going to need to  
> keep an eye open for quite a while.  These Section 527 disks were  
> fairly cheap, so that means you should expect anybody doing  
> political sites to have perhaps purchased the data or retrieved it  
> from a site such as mine.
>
> I assume your firm is now going to manually check *EVERY SINGLE*  
> Section 527 and Form 990 that you filed and make sure that this is  
> not an issue for your other clients?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Carl
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 14, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Sedberry, Tom wrote:
>
> > Please call ASAP about an IRS listing in your data bank. Thanks!!
> >
> >
> > Thomas F. Sedberry
> > Attorney at Law
> > Jackson Walker L.L.P.
> > 100 Congress Avenue, Suite 1100
> > Austin, Texas  78701
> > Tel. - 512-236-2330
> > Cell - 512-970-0108
> > E-mail - xxxxxxx@jw.com