NEW: A dark money group with no website, no employees and no apparent offices brought in $80 million in its first year of operation.

The group's sole trustee is Leonard Leo, the Trump judicial advisor who's tied to millions spent on judicial nominations citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…
The filing vastly expands the amount of money known to be flowing into the growing constellation of dark money groups tied to Leo and provides new details about his role in a secretive firm that was responsible for a $1 million donation to Trump’s inaugural committee.
The only other people linked to the group, based on the sparse filing, are either longtime Federalist Society officials-turned-consultants like Leo, or operatives with a long history working behind the scenes on dark money groups tied to Leo.
(the links to the documents in the story should now be public. Apologies, and thank you @WendySiegelman for the heads up)
I should say a big h/t to @andrewperezdc here. I wouldn't have gone down this rabbit hole when I did, if it weren't for his tweet
Sorry y'all, somehow the document got stuck in processing. I'm going to get in touch with @documentcloud support, but in the meantime, here's another link to the full tax return: citizensforethics.org/wp-content/upl…

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