Trying to figure out why Leonard Leo organized the Rule of Law Trust, registered as a 501c4 in '18, as a trust. If I'm reading the instructions for Form 1023 correctly, IRS rules permit a trust to apply w/o being registered as a business entity in the state it is domiciled in...
...Spoke to a lawyer re different types of trusts but it's out of my league. If one of Leo's reasons for registering ROL as a trust was to keep the 5014c4 w $79M in donations in '18 under wraps, why did he register it in VA in April '20?....
...Whatever Leo's reason for registering the trust as a business in April 2020, you can bet it was on advice of counsel since the Rule of Law Trust spent $3.8M on legal fees in '19 (includes the Barton Group LLC registered in VA in June '19 by Jason Torchinsky, member)...
...The Rule of Law Trust's registered agent in VA, Cogency Global in Midlothian VA, resigned in Dec 2020 & in April 2021, the trust's registration was automatically cancelled. If you looked up ROL w VA SoS now, Leonard Leo isn't listed as a principal...
...My theory is Leonard Leo was trying to hide the existence of the Rule of Law Trust to avoid questions about who donated the $79M. One, it was initially set up as a trust & not registered as a business in any state...
...Two, the dollar amount of the initial donation, $79,999,550, was set to make it look like there was more than one donor but I suspect there was only one...
...Even the name, Rule of Law, was meant to be confused w the Rule of Law Project, another NFP registered by Leonard Leo in VA in 2014 & voluntarily terminated in May '16 (bit of trivia - Bill Kristol was a director)....
...This is somewhat amusing. Leonard Leo didn't register Rule of Law Trust as a not-for-profit w the state of VA but look who did- Steve Bannon's pal, Guo Wengui. In fact, Bannon was a ROL IV board member... cnbc.com/2021/08/16/ste…
...Be a hoot if the $79M did come from Guo Wengui. It would explain the measures Leonard Leo took to obscure the existence of the Rule of Law Trust & why the trust paid Baker Botts $1M in 2019...
...Would also explain why Guo Wengui named his two NFPs, registered in NYS in Jan '19, w Rule of Law in their names. The ROL Foundation is a 501c3 & the ROL Society is a 501c4...
...As I said, it'd be a hoot if the Guo Wengui did donate $79M to Leonard Leo's Rule of Law Trust but to be clear, I have zero concrete evidence that happened. More later...
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Roger Sollenberger on the $8M five of Trump's PACs have paid Red Curve Solutions, a MA based compliance firm founded by Bradley Crate. Red Curve VP Charles Gantt was treasurer of Trump's transition NFP, Trump For America...
Apparently, Red Curve also goes by Bulldog Compliance based on this March 2022 story about failed congressional candidate Morgan Ortagus (Ivanka's choice) & the Tennessee Conservatives PAC.. tennesseelookout.com/2022/03/30/lit…
Bradley Crate & Charles Gantt are treasurers of 300 or so federal political committees per the FEC...
Oh look. @VishBurra reposted Garrett Ziegler's tweet of my 2011 DUI arrest. As I recall, Mr. Burra has an arrest record for drugs. Not sure if he's a convicted felon like Gabby Lipsky's father, Dave.
Like Garrett Ziegler, Vish Burra spent a lot of time making the Hunter Biden laptop hard drive a thing. Happened across @Olivianuzzi's Sept 12 2022 story yesterday about the laptop hard drive saga that mentions Burra... nymag.com/intelligencer/…
No need to read Nuzzi's story to learn about Vish Burra's role in the Hunter Biden laptop hard drive saga. He laid it all out in this Dec 2022 interview on Dinesh D'Souza's YouTube channel...
GIFT LINK🎁: April 2007 story by Glen Simpson & Mary Jacoby on ex-Soviets lobbying DC. Former FBI director & Rep Pete Sessions' father, William Sessions, was a lawyer for Ukrainian born Russian mob boss Semyon Mogilevich... wsj.com/articles/SB117…
Excerpt about Sessions & Mogilevich. At one time, Sessions believed the Russian mafia could be beat but I guess the money was too hard to turn down...
The rest of the WSJ story is worth a read if you're interested in the history of Republicans on the payroll of Russian oligarchs & org crime. Bob Dole repped Oleg Deripaska back in the day...
Peter K. Navarro, 74, is scheduled to turn himself into the Miami FCI at 2 pm today. It is 30 minutes south of Trump Doral & some of its well known inmates include Manuel Noriega, Lou Pearlman, Sanjay Kumar & Joel Greenberg....
Remember how Peter Navarro became President Trump's first economic advisor? Per @sarahellison, Jared Kushner liked the title of Navarro's book that he found on Amazon & cold called him... vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/j…
@sarahellison Navarro later soured on Kushner, calling him "the Rasputin son-in-law" & worst Trump staffer. He even accused Kushner of faking cancer to sell his book... businessinsider.com/peter-navarro-…
Let's talk about Mike Roman's affairs & his 10 illegitimate children. 8 of his 10 children live w him & their mother in Philadelphia. The other two I don't know if he ever paid child support. Dirtbag.
How are Mike Roman & Adrienne McAllister paying for their eldest child to attend a major university in the northeast where tuition is $37k/year? McAllister declared bankruptcy 4 or 5 times & has no assets....
Roman & McAllister send their other children to Catholic school & belonged to an expensive country club but the modest home they owned was foreclosed on & now they rent from the buyer...
Kind of fun fact. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) was a 2017 Claremont Institute fellow along w Chris Rufo & James O'Keefe. Roy is no longer listed on the Claremont site.
Near as I can tell, Chris Rufo's Documentary Foundation rec'd funding from the Moving Picture Institute in 2014 & 2015 when Rebekah Mercer was on the board. By 2017, his last documentary, America Lost, was essentially complete...
In May 2017 or thereabout, Rufo became a Claremont fellow. In Dec 2018, he wrote his first article for the Discovery Institute.... discovery.org/p/rufo/page/3/