Wellspring Committee's $500k donation to People United For Privacy in '18 is a good example of how the dark money crowd operates. WC's sole officer/director was Neil Corkery & it was terminated at year end....
...People United For Privacy's tax exempt status was effective Oct '17. In '18, Wellspring Committee was its only donor. PUP president is Tony Woodlief who is also an executive vice president w the State Policy Network...
...T. Raymond Conlon didn't prepare the People United For Privacy 990s but he may well have, given the substandard reporting by Marcum LLP, a DC CPA firm...
...$225k of the $269k People United For Privacy spent in '18 went to Other, the details of which were disclosed in Schedule O. PUP reported it was managed by the State Policy Network, an "unrelated organization" w/o disclosing Tony Woodlief is an executive w SPN....
...$139k of the $188k People United For Privacy expended on advance policy consulting went to Summit Consulting Group in Phoenix. A number of Summit's clients are well known...
summitgroupnet.com/summit-consult…
...Why an AZ centric consulting firm? Might have something to do w PUP board member, Jess Yescalis who also has a consulting firm in Phoenix per his LinkedIn profile. If Yescalis was a Summit subcontractor, we don't know...
...Another PUP board member, Starlee Coleman, is juggling a lot of balls in the air including State Policy Network advisor...
...(In case you were curious about what Jesse Yescali's bedroom looks like, here you go. His IG account has lots of pix of all the places he's traveled to)...
azcentral.com/picture-galler…
...Last but not least, PUP board member Steve Voeller is University of Arizona VP, Government & Community Relations. Wouldn't think someone in his position would be on the board of a 501c4 but, hey, it's Arizona...
...And this is all the time I have today for the Wellspring Committee & the conservative dark money network other than to say PUP took in another $500k in '19. WC was out of business so I guess the money came from whatever big $$$ organization the Corkerys are hooked up with now
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