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Don Moynihan
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Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: donmoynihan.substack.com
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Definitely feels like Leonard Leo is running a taxpayer-subsidized kickback scheme: the money he raises are then filtered to conservative orgs, which in turn redirect some of that money back to Leo's for-profit firm. (Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/o...)

The tax filings from 2020 to 2023 show, for example, that Leo’s donor groups gave Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America at least $12 million. In its most recent tax filing, the Anthony group reported that it paid CRC Advisors $543,821 for “public relations consulting.”

Leo’s charities have given the Foundation for Government Accountability at least $2 million. From 2020 to 2022, the accountability foundation told the I.R.S. that it paid CRC Advisors $640,000 for “public relations.”

Or take the Federalist Society, the conservative legal think tank. Leo was formerly the vice president and is now a co-chairman of its board. His donor nonprofits have given it at least $15.5 million during the 2020s, according to tax records. In its most recent filings with the I.R.S., the Federalist Society reported paying CRC Advisors $4.78 million from 2020 to 2022.
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SAteamquimby.bsky.social

It’s hard to believe that such a paragon of virtue would do anything so shady

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MLmlamb.bsky.social

Leonard Leo ignores Congressional subpoenas so these questions will remain unanswered.

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JKamericanarena.bsky.social

Feels like? Looks like!

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Kkathleena.bsky.social

There's just an endless supply of these devils

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processanalyzer.bsky.social

This isn’t news to me. Federalists kicking monster bucks to Cannon and she’s not even declaring payments.

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ANalanneff.bsky.social

Does seem a smidge circular. Beneficially circular. Self-interestedly circular. But, hey, what do I know?

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DMdonmoyn.bsky.social

Not the main point here, but Leo was complaining about that anti-Catholic bias was at its most intense in American history at a time when the President and two-thirds of the Supreme Court were Catholic

Leo has an overarching agenda. In a 2022 speech he made upon receiving the John Paul II New Evangelization Award at the Catholic Information Center, he warned fellow Catholics: “Catholic evangelization faces extraordinary threats and hurdles. Our culture is more hateful and intolerant of Catholicism than at any other point in our lives. It despises who we are, what we profess and how we act.”
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Don Moynihan
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Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: donmoynihan.substack.com
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