I bet Leonard Leo is having a blessed Fourth of July at his place on Mount Desert Island in Maine. Inquiring minds want to know if the $600k the Rule of Law Trust spent on fixed assets financed the new addition to his property...
Leonard Leo is the sole trustee of the Rule of Law Trust, a 501c4 that has no employees, its address is a shared work space & it made a total of five donations since inception in 2018...
Per @NickSurgey & @ItsDocumented, the Honest Elections Project will be hosting an inaugural dinner at the annual ALEC meeting in Atlanta on July 27 2022...
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The legal name of the Honest Elections Project is The 85 Fund which, according to VA records, is also known as the Judicial Education Project, Law and Policy Forum & Free To Learn. Gary A. Marx, Carrie Campbell Severino & Todd Graves are officers. EIN 20-2466871...
This is where it gets complicated. In 2020, the 85 Fund paid $12M to Leonard Leo's firm, CRC Advisors, for consulting & advertising...
In 2020, the Rule of Law Trust donated $9M to Fidelity Charity, a donor advised fund (DAF). Also in 2020, the 85 Fund aka Honest Elections Project, reported a $9M donation....
I'm waiting for the latest Fidelity Charity 990 to confirm there was a single $9M contribution to the 85 Fund but I'm fairly certain the $9M originated w Leonard Leo's Rule of Law Trust...
I'm stopping here but this is only one example of how the money is funneled into the bank accounts of Leonard Leo & his associates.
Did I mention the Rule of Law Trust was funded by three anonymous donations totaling $79M in 2018?
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