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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhitaker was paid 1.2 million as only employee of mysterious nonprofit
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=.501d49c7d437In 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.
In its application to the IRS for status as a tax-exempt organization, the organizers reported that the group would study the impact of environmental regulations on businesses, records show. In that incarnation, the group took no action and only existed on paper, one man named in IRS filings as a board member told The Washington Post. Another named in a state filing as a board member said he never agreed to be on the board.
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Whitaker was paid 1.2 million as only employee of mysterious nonprofit (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Nov 2018
OP
Botany
(70,508 posts)1. Russian money?
n/t
JHB
(37,160 posts)10. Or ye olde Wingnut Welfare.
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)2. A charity?
RockRaven
(14,967 posts)3. Sounds like tax fraud; tax filings contained false information (board member never agreed to be one)
Lock him up!
SHRED
(28,136 posts)4. He's gonna be up "Schiff's Creek" soon I hope
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)5. Whitaker is dirty as shit
AJT
(5,240 posts)6. Money laundering?
NPOs as money-laundering fronts . . .
oasis
(49,388 posts)8. Drain th swamp. Jail the GOP rats.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)9. Maybe Whitaker was researching toilets for underendowed republicans?
I mean, that seems to be the kind of stupid shit republicans are fixated on.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)11. FACT president: A phony credential to introduce him to audiences
on talk shows, etcetera? That's speculation I heard -- from I think Rachel -- when he was first appointed.
Like all his better schticks, the ones that rise above huckstering and scamming, this man was apparently turned into a talk show figure by people who decided he was their kind of guy and could be useful. Wonder if they had an appointment to a judicial seat in mind next...