A pro-Trump group helped fund the nonprofit holding cash giveaways to black attendees
Washington (CNN)A nonprofit created to support President Donald Trump and his administration's policies donated more than $230,000 to a group that recently awarded cash prizes to black attendees at a Cleveland event they billed as a Christmas "cash giveaway."
America First Policies, the nonprofit arm of a pro-Trump super PAC which was started by former Trump campaign aides, issued a $238,000 grant to the Urban Revitalization Coalition Inc., in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, according to its 2018 tax return first published by the Center for Public Integrity. The charity, co-founded by Pastor Darrell Scott and Kareem Lanier, handed out thousands of dollars in cash as part of an event promoted as a "Christmas Extravaganza." Other cash giveaways by the organization have been said to be planned.
America First Policies tax filings show it provided the grant to Scott's group for "general support," one of just six groups that received grants of more than $5,000 from the organization that year.
Scott is one of the President's most visible African American supporters and served as a surrogate during the 2016 campaign. He co-chairs Black Voices for Trump and has advised the President on initiatives aimed at urban communities as well as the FIRST Step Act. Lanier, along with Scott and other Trump supporters, sit on the leadership of the National Diversity Coalition for Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/politics/trump-surrogates-cash-giveaway-black-voters/index.html
