Conservative nonprofit with obscure roots and undisclosed funders paid Matthew Whitaker $1.2 million
Source: Washington Post
In the three years after he arrived in Washington in 2014, Matthew G. Whitaker received more than $1.2 million as the leader of a charity that reported having no other employees, some of the best pay of his career.
The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust described itself as a new watchdog nonprofit dedicated to exposing unethical conduct by public officials. For Whitaker, it became a lucrative steppingstone in a swift rise from a modest law practice in Iowa to the nations top law enforcement job. As FACTs president, he regularly appeared on radio and television, often to skewer liberals.
But FACTs origins and the source of funding used to pay Whitaker now the acting attorney general remain obscured. An examination of state and federal records, and interviews with those involved, show that the group is part of a national network of nonprofits that often work in concert to amplify conservative messages.
Contrary to its claims in news releases and a tax filing, the group was created under a different name two years before Whitakers arrival, according to incorporation and IRS records. At least two of the organizers were involved in another conservative charity using the same address.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/conservative-nonprofit-with-obscure-roots-and-undisclosed-funders-paid-matthew-whitaker-12-million/2018/11/20/25ff987e-e9db-11e8-bd89-eecf3b178206_story.html?utm_term=.1051111fc1a6
The more we hear about Whitaker, the more crooked he looks. No wonder Trump chose him.
ffr
(22,669 posts)WHORES! Every one of them.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)In charge of Justice ? WTF?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)"Acting AG Meatball"
hilarious but this level of corruption is such a sorry state of affairs for our nation.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,682 posts)He must have broken a law for that kind of coin.
Just a Weirdo
(488 posts)Whitaker is heading to prison with the rest of the Trump assholes
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,972 posts)and filled his cabinet with its slimiest denizens.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)dalton99a
(81,485 posts)A Post analysis of more than 200 television and radio appearances by Whitaker from 2014 to September 2017, when he was named chief of staff to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, shows that Whitaker was overwhelmingly focused on Democrats.