Thread by @WendySiegelman

I was recently reminded about this 2017 tweet on the Mercer's Reclaim New York with board director Leonard Leo

Since then we've seen Leo's massive influence picking judicial appointments

So here are a few new findings and old references on Leo / thread

https://twitter.com/WendySiegelman/status/843177170814074884?s=20

To start, for anyone who needs some background, here’s a great thread by @emlas from 2018 on Leonard Leo and his many ties to dark money groups

https://twitter.com/emlas/status/1007409943392276481?s=20

Reclaim New York Inc is a 501c3 nonprofit and 990 financials are on ProPublica from Sept 2013 incorporation through 2017

In 2017 Rebekah Mercer was Chairman & Treasurer, Brandon Muir Exec Director, Jennifer Mercer Dir & Sect, and Leonard Leo was Director
projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/org…

Reclaim New York was started Sept 2013 with

Steve Bannon, Director/Vice Chairman
Leonard Leo, Director
Lawrence J. Mone, Director
Rebekah Mercer, Director, Chairman, Treasurer
Jennifer Mercer, Director, Secretary
Thomas J. Basile, Chief Operating Officer

projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/dis…

Lawrence J. Mone was president of the Manhattan Institute for 23 years until 2018. Rebekah Mercer is a current trustee. Elliot Management’s Paul Singer is now chairman of Manhattan Institute, which was founded by Antony Fisher, who created the Altas Group
manhattan-institute.org/html/press-rel…

This 2018 @robertianlewis WNYC story described the work of Reclaim New York to build a citizen watchdog movement

Cambridge Analytica helped build a database of govt spending

Kellyanne Conway was founding director of affiliated Reclaim New York Initiative
wnyc.org/story/trumps-a…

The 2015 Reclaim New York 990 part IV includes transaction of $45,000 from Cambridge Analytica for rental reimbursement

That same year they describe launching The New York Transparency Project to build a public database of school and regional NY data

projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/dis…

The 2016 Reclaim New York 990 lists a transaction of $17,000 with Cambridge Analytica for “payment of services” and a reimbursement of $56,586 for rent

projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/dis…

The WNYC story noted the original paperwork for Reclaim was filed by Laurence Levy, longtime associate of Rudy Giuliani

Open corporates shows registered address at Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

opencorporates.com/companies/us_n…

Laurence Levy was described in NYT article as an American election lawyer who warned Cambridge Analytica in 2014 on company arrangement related to election laws

When Giuliani moved from Bracewell & Giuliani to Greenberg Traurig, Levy moved with him

https://twitter.com/WendySiegelman/status/975071372346056704?s=20

The related Reclaim New York Initiative, Inc., Incorporated in 2016, lists Laurence Levy as director w/address at Greenberg Traurig

Interesting that Giuliani assoc Levy set up 2 Mercer Reclaim entities in 2013 & 2016 & advised Cambridge Analytica in 2014
opencorporates.com/companies/us_n…

Reclaim New York has a small budget & regional focus, but has interesting links among Rebekah & Jennifer Mercer, Steve Bannon (until 2016), Cambridge Analytica, Giuliani assoc Levy filing corp docs 2013-2016, KellyAnn Conway linked in 2016

& Leonard Leo a director throughout

There's much more on Leonard Leo covered elsewhere, on his links to Mercer, the Kochs, BH Group, Wellspring, and various dark money pacs etc. I wanted to highlight in thread above this direct link with Mercers, Cambridge Analytica, previously w/Bannon, and indirectly w/Giuliani

Another odd item - a 2017 @Bernstein story described how Ed Butowsky, Dallas wealth manager & Fox News guest who facilitated private investigation into the murder of Seth Rich - had a website that said he was a Board Member for Reclaim New York HT @emlas

buzzfeednews.com/article/joseph…