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Jun 4

Because SPLC has been in the news I felt a quick look at others operating in their space was warranted. What follows is a structural financial look at groups in the LCCHR.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR) is a coalition of 260 member organizations - civil rights groups, labor unions, faith communities, disability advocacy, women's orgs, LGBTQ orgs. Most US advocacy money flows through this network in some form.

I pulled the most recent IRS Form 990 for every national entity in the coalition (293 entities, since 51 members operate paired (c)(3)/(c)(4) structures). 242 of 260 members matched - 93% coverage, full data on national-level entities only (state chapters excluded).

Headline numbers across the coalition:

▪ **$7.94 BILLION** in combined annual revenue
▪ **$16.24 BILLION** in combined assets
▪ **$187 MILLION** in combined officer compensation
▪ AARP alone is $1.81B - ~24% of the total. Without AARP: $5.95B
▪ 51 member orgs run paired (c)(3) charity + (c)(4) lobbying entities
▪ 113 of 221 (51%) entities filed IRS Schedule R (related-org disclosure)

Everything below is sourced to public Form 990 filings. None of it is allegation; all of it is what the orgs themselves disclosed to the IRS.

The largest single LCCHR member entities by annual revenue, most recent FY filed:

▪ AARP - $1.81B (FY2022)
▪ National Education Association - $388M
▪ Planned Parenthood Federation of America - $378M
▪ Teach For America - $276M
▪ Open Society Policy Center - $257M
▪ SEIU International - $254M
▪ International Union UAW - $245M
▪ UFCW International - $240M
▪ ACLU Foundation - $185M
▪ AARP Foundation - $175M
▪ Sierra Club - $173M
▪ Southern Poverty Law Center - $170M
▪ ACLU (the c4) - $147M
▪ AFSCME International - $140M
▪ AFL-CIO - $118M

The top 15 alone account for roughly $5.4B of the $7.94B coalition total. After AARP and the major labor unions, you reach Planned Parenthood, Teach For America, and the various ACLU/Sierra Club-style paired ops.

The labor unions are notable: SEIU, UAW, UFCW, AFSCME each pull in $140M-$254M annually. That's the membership-dues river - billions of dollars flowing from individual workers through international unions, a sizable chunk of which funds advocacy and political activity in this coalition.

LCCHR member entities split across multiple IRS tax categories. Each has different rules:

▪ **501(c)(3) charitable** (~250 entities): donations tax-deductible, lobbying limited
▪ **501(c)(4) social welfare/lobby** (~26 entities): donations NOT deductible, unlimited lobbying allowed
▪ **501(c)(5) labor union** (~6 entities): member dues, separate DOL filing regime
▪ **501(c)(6) professional** (1 entity): trade/professional associations
▪ **501(c)(7) sorority/fraternity** (~9 entities): the historic AKA / Delta / Omega / Iota / etc.

The (c)(4) count is small in count but disproportionately important: most of the political-action firepower of the coalition flows through these entities, which can engage in unlimited lobbying that (c)(3) charities legally cannot.

The labor unions (NEA, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, SEIU, UAW, UFCW) operate under (c)(5) status, which means they file Form 990 with the IRS AND Form LM-2 with the Department of Labor - DOUBLE disclosure regime. This is one of the only sectors with this overlap.

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May 31

Ok - since I've spent a fair bit of time collecting as much data as I can about school districts and property tax rates (26 states currently) I decided to go looking for patterns this morning. Stuff not directly visible if you're just looking at a single state or district. Found some interesting things.

Thread follows.

Your property taxes went up. A lot. I looked at real tax data from the 26 states I had and found that school districts collected 81% MORE money in 2025 than in 2020.

That's not a typo. From $120 billion to $218 billion in just 5 years.

But wait — didn't they lower the tax rate?

Yes! In Massachusetts the rate dropped from 15.76 to 12.79. In New York it dropped from 18.11 to 13.36.

So how are they collecting MORE money at a LOWER rate?

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May 15

I just launched a free tool that connects federal education datasets that have never been linked together visually before.

Every public school district in America. Spending, test scores, staffing, civil rights data, referendums — all in one place.

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Education data in the US is scattered across a dozen federal agencies in incompatible formats.

Census F-33 for finances. NAEP for test scores. EdFacts for state assessments. CRDC for civil rights. CCD for staffing. IDEA for special ed.

No one has put them together — until now.

What's included:

• District finance from Census Bureau (per-pupil spending, revenue sources, property taxes)
• Demographics from ACS 2022 (income, poverty, home values)
• NAEP scores (math & reading, grades 4 & 8)
• EdFacts proficiency trends (2009-2021)
• Staffing from Common Core of Data
• Civil rights discipline, absenteeism, restraint data from CRDC
• Special education rates from IDEA
• School referendum election results (WI, CO, WA, MN, IN)

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May 8

Ok - got another parent guide completed for TAS - this one actually took longer to compile than California (and that's saying something).

New Jersey you're on notice because you have some of the worst educator accountability gaps in the nation.

A thread on what we found researching NJ law for parents trying to protect kids from predator teachers.

NJ's "Pass-the-Trash" law (2018) was supposed to stop predator teachers from hopping between districts. But here's the dirty secret: there is ZERO monetary penalty for districts that simply don't bother conducting the required 20-year background inquiry. None.

The only $500 penalty in the law? It's against the APPLICANT who lies on the form — not the district that skips the check entirely. We read every section (18A:6-7.6 through 18A:6-7.12) directly from the NJ Legislature site. No district fine exists anywhere that we can find.

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Sep 11, 2025

Peter Howle Brady, 78, Daytona Beach shores,FL

Suspected of being part of a large scale pedophile ring at the Daytona beach motels and Boardwalk in the late 90s

Arrested AGAIN..yesterday for you guessed it lewd and lavicious touching of certain minors

He sure does own a looot of property … js

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Rewind : 1994
Before his death in 1994, Olen Lee Hepler Jr. spent a lifetime fishing at the Daytona Beach pier.
He trolled in the shadows underneath, angling for runaway boys.
Hepler was a pedophile. His consuming passion – and it did eventually consume him – was having sex with children.
Police say his targets were runaway boys looking for a teen paradise at Daytona Beach. When reality dashed the dreams and drained their wallets, Hepler was waiting.
He lured the boys home with offers of food, shelter and cash. When the boys fell asleep, presuming themselves safe in Hepler’s care, he crept up and undressed them for oral and anal sex, court records show. Afraid, confused or groggy from drugs, the boys were powerless to resist.
Aside from the sex, life with Hepler had its attractions for teens. He was a Daytona Beach car salesman who made enough money to keep the kids in liquor, drugs and quarters for Boardwalk arcades, according to one victim. He provided boys with new clothes and sneakers. He showed them pornographic movies and made a few, videotaping the boys at play and in orgies. He walked around his house naked and encouraged the boys to do the same, the victim said.
In 1994 a 15-year-old shot Hepler, 47, to death. The gunshot did what police could not: It stopped a man who had been abusing boys for 20 years. Police searching his house found hundreds of photographs of boys, most clothed in normal poses. Police say such collections are common among molesters.
As a pedophile, Hepler was but one grain of sand on Daytona’s beaches. For a quarter-century, countless pedophiles have mined the Boardwalk for boys.
Some are moneyed men with boats, motorcycles and other pricey toys to impress children. Some own secluded beach homes where they can molest in private.
The pedophiles operate in packs, trading boys to each other and sharing homemade videotapes. Some keep “harems” of youngsters, entire groups of teens called upon at the whim of the pedophiles.
The men threaten any boy who objects with abandonment.
Experts at deception
Daytona Beach’s pedophiles work in the shadows, changing their seductions to elude snooping officers who, over the years, have taken note of the sex-seeking men. In the mid-1980s, men lured teens to bed with crack cocaine. As detectives stamped out that drug trade, they noticed the pedophiles had moved their activities into several beachfront hotels.
The hotels, it turned out, were owned by pedophiles. And they were convenient – just a short walk to consummate a Boardwalk seduction.
City and state investigators consider the acts abhorrent and began to crack down in 1991. A police presence and vigilance by Boardwalk businesses have reduced the activity, but the pedophiles know the rhythms of police patrols. They know how to avoid being caught.
“They were very, very law enforcement conscious,” John Bisland testified in August 1995 about Hepler’s associates. The special agent for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was speaking during a deposition in Hepler’s murder case. “They shared very little with anyone outside the scope of that close circle of friends, as it relates to pedophilia.”
Elusiveness is a pedophile’s trademark. Hepler was never arrested.
The man who found Hepler’s body was his longtime friend Larry Mullins, who was a well-known face on the Boardwalk for 20 years.
In court and police documents, as well as sworn depositions, Mullins repeatedly has been linked to pedophilia in Daytona Beach. From 1987 until soon after Hepler’s death in 1994, Mullins owned the beachfront Boardwalk Motel, which also was linked repeatedly to pedophilia.
Mullins, 43, declined to be interviewed for this story, and his hotel, now with new owners, is no longer under investigation by law enforcement, said Mary Pascale, a Volusia County state attorney investigator.
The FDLE investigated Mullins and his hotel from March 1991 until November 1993, never building enough evidence to prosecute.
But FDLE’s report concluded that Mullins’ hotel was used to “facilitate room rentals for the purposes of juvenile homosexual prostitution.”
The Volusia County State Attorney’s Office is investigating Mullins again, Pascale said. She refused to provide details.
Statements about Mullins and his hotel are contained in court and investigative records:
– “I knew about the Boardwalk Motel. That’s common knowledge in Daytona Beach. . . . The common knowledge is that’s where all the runaways used to go and that’s where these people used to meet these boys. . . . We know that Mullins is involved with young boys.” – Volusia sheriff’s Capt. Bob Vail, 1995.
– “His hotel was used by several pedophiles that I am aware of – one that I specifically arrested who would bring boys over from Orlando, and Larry would give them discounts to use the motel for illicit purposes.” – Daytona Beach police Detective John Adazzio, 1995.
– “Most of the – what I would say, the recruitment and the actual sex acts were taking place in the Boardwalk Motel and the Boardwalk area.” – FDLE Special Agent John Bisland, 1995, speaking about Mullins, Hepler and associates.
Always room at the hotel
During the FDLE investigation, when an informant wired with a tape recorder asked Mullins about renting a room for prostitution, Mullins did not object. He said a room was available.
Another time, the informant told Mullins he had a $300 “trick” waiting for him in one of Mullins’ rooms. Mullins told the informant “to get up to the room and take care of” the man.
And when an informant asked Mullins about procuring young boys, Mullins said that he had been “careful for the past year” that police had been monitoring hustlers near the hotel.
Perhaps nothing demonstrates Mullins’ role in the loose-knit world of the pedophile as well as his involvement with a 14-year-old named Mikey.
In the fall of 1991, Kathy Smith was working feverishly to retrieve her son from the grasp of pedophiles, who were trading Mikey from man to man. Mikey never accused Mullins of molesting him, but Mullins knew all about Mikey, according to testimony by Mikey and a journal kept by his mother.
What happened was this: Two of the pedophiles who molested Mikey took him back home with them to South Carolina. Mikey’s stepfather, having heard of Mullins, threatened to give Mullins’ name to police if Mikey did not arrive home within 24 hours.
Within 15 minutes, Mullins reported that Mikey was headed home on a bus, according to the youth’s testimony and his mother’s journal. The incident shows that Mullins knew where to call to find Mikey and had the influence to force his return.
Another man who was linked to pedophile activity in the FDLE investigation is Mullins’ friend, Peter Howle Brady.
After Mullins found Hepler’s body, he called Brady to tell him to meet him at the house. The two men then called Hepler’s brother, who called police.
Brady, who is independently wealthy, is the son of the late heiress Elinor Ryan Brady, a socialite whose famed Washington estate, Valley View, was listed for sale in 1994 at $19 million.
Brady, Mullins and Hepler were close friends, the FDLE’s Bisland said in a deposition.
Before Hepler died, the trio spent much time in Boardwalk hotels and the arcades, according to the FDLE. Detectives made Brady a target of their investigation, but they did not collect enough evidence against him to prosecute.
Despite repeated attempts to reach him, Brady was unavailable to comment.
Several informants told FDLE investigators they had sex with Brady while they were teen-agers, according to FDLE records. One informant said Brady kept a room at Mullins’ hotel exclusively for prostitution with young boys.
In 1991, FDLE agents saw Brady at one of the arcades, giving money for video games to a 13-year-old. An informant said Brady identified the teen as one of his “squeezes.”
Brady has plenty of money. State records say Brady owns seven boats, including a 45-footer, four motorcycles, two cars and a pickup. He also owns a secluded riverfront home in Ponce Inlet.
The FDLE said its investigation of the three men, “failed to produce sufficient evidence to warrant a prosecution of the primary targets, however, (it) confirmed the suspicions of the activity taking place at the Boardwalk Motel.”
It also notes that many victims were reluctant to testify, and those who came forward did not remain available to be called as witnesses.
Mike Brick, who retired in October as head of FDLE’s Orlando area office, said the Boardwalk investigation was one of the biggest disappointments in his 28-year career. He said investigators knew the pedophilia existed but found no proof that would stand up in court.
“We walked away unhappy,” he said. “We were very frustrated.”
Prosecutors find success
In the past 10 years, local police and prosecutors have tried to curb the pedophilia. The efforts, particularly when a boy is willing to testify, have resulted in a series of prosecutions. The men convicted ranged from a television personality to hotel owners to laborers.
– Emmett Rozier, 55, a former WESH-Channel 2 news anchorman, was charged in 1991 with a lewd and lascivious act involving Mikey.
Rozier had ordered Mikey out of his house because of drunkenness, and when Mikey pleaded to remain, Rozier asked, “What are you going to do for me?” court records show. He took the child downstairs and performed oral sex on him.
Rozier was sentenced to five years of probation, which he violated in 1993 by allowing a couple with a child to stay in his house. He was sentenced to four years in prison and was released in May.
Rozier, who has a history of sex charges involving children, lives in Holly Hill. He is not on parole or probation.
– James Walker, 26, was working at a pizza parlor that Mikey visited. He seduced Mikey with food and sodas. Walker pleaded no contest to lewd and lascivious assault and, after violating the terms of community confinement, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
– Charles Thomas Simpson, 47, lived in a motor home in Rozier’s back yard and was charged with paying Mikey and another boy for sex. A jury found him guilty, and Simpson is serving a nine-year prison sentence.
– Dennis Devlin, 42, owned two beachfront hotels in 1991, and in October, Mikey stayed at one with his parents. Devlin was accused of persuading Mikey and another boy to undresswhile Devlin photographed them. Devlin was charged with lewd and lascivious assault and procuring a child for sexual performance, but the charges were dropped.
Devlin has been arrested numerous times on charges of luring youths to pose nude and perform sex acts. He was convicted in a separate case last year. He served 133 days of a 1 year and 10 month prison sentence and was released in July.
As part of Devlin’s probation, a judge ordered an unusual condition, one that shows how well-known the Boardwalk pedophilia has become.
Devlin is banned from several miles of Daytona beachfront – the places that he and others such as the late Olen Lee Hepler Jr. used to wait patiently for the next boy to drift by.

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Aug 15, 2025

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — An undercover operation targeting child sex predators in the Las Vegas Valley over two weeks resulted in the arrest of eight individuals, according to a release from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

The individuals arrested are:

David Wonnacott-Yahnke, 40
Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, 38
Jose Alberto Perez-Torres, 35
Aniket Brajeshkumar Sadani, 23
James Ramon Reddick, 23
Ramon Manuel Parra Valenzuela, 29
Neal Harrison Creecy, 46
John Charles Duncan, 49
Each faces charges of luring a child with a computer for a sex act.

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David Wonnacott-Yahnke

Treasurer of Imperial Royal Soverign Court Of The Desert

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