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Politico reports:
A network of political non-profits formed by judicial activist Leonard Leo moved at least $43 million to a new firm he is leading, raising questions about how his conservative legal movement is funded. Leo’s own personal wealth appeared to have ballooned as his fundraising prowess accelerated since his efforts to cement the Supreme Court’s conservative majority helped to bring about its decision to overturn abortion rights.
A POLITICO investigation based on dozens of financial, property and public records dating from 2000 to 2021 found that Leo’s lifestyle took a lavish turn beginning in 2016, the year he was tapped as an unpaid adviser to incoming President Donald Trump on Supreme Court justices. It’s the same period during which he erected a for-profit ecosystem around his longtime nonprofit empire that is shielded from taxes. Leo was executive vice president of The Federalist Society at the time.
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Leo is often portrayed as a deeply pious man who attends mass every day, yet his interests seem very much of this world: he’s increasingly taken to skimming tens of millions of dollars from his dark money empirehttps://t.co/AIQPqmlbt1
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) March 1, 2023
I have been trying to point out the self-dealing of the Leonard Leo dark money network for years now https://t.co/XPTV6ffx1y pic.twitter.com/oy8MQaISKy
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) March 1, 2023
just a hilarious amount of corruption swirling around the supreme court. https://t.co/qzBdyROv9L
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) March 1, 2023