CPAC Treasurer Quits, Alleges Groping Defense Scandal

New York Magazine reports:

A top leader in the organization that puts on CPAC, the highly influential conference of conservative leaders, resigned on Tuesday night, citing financial mysteries surrounding the organization’s leader. Bob Beauprez, the longtime treasurer of the American Conservative Union, said that he was not fully informed about money being paid for chairman Matt Schlapp’s legal defense against a lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault.

“I cannot deliver a financial report at the upcoming board meeting with any confidence in the accuracy of the numbers,” Beauprez wrote in a letter to the ACU’s board of directors. Beauprez also said ACU was not abiding by a number of its bylaws and could face serious legal jeopardy. He wrote that board members were being paid by the organization without a vote or the approval of the full board. He accused Schlapp of exercising total control of when the board could meet, against its own rules.

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Beauprez previously served two US House terms, leaving in 2007 for a failed bid for Colorado governor. He tried again in 2014, losing to incumbent Gov. John Hickenlooper.

SCOOP: The treasurer of ACU, the organization that puts on CPAC, resigned and said

“I cannot deliver a financial report at the upcoming board meeting with any confidence in the accuracy of the numbers.” https://t.co/3Zc0weELL7

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) May 25, 2023