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PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sam-bankman-fried-s-admission-about-secret-gop-donations-provoke-an-fec-complaint/ar-AA156FCl?ocid=winp2fpsystemprelaunch&cvid=4c2c577322ae400eb4ddc571a2a5bd6b

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Admission About Secret GOP Donations Provoke An FEC Complaint


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Sam Bankman-Fried testifies on May 12, 2022 before the House Agriculture Committee.
Acampaign finance watchdog has accused Sam Bankman-Fried, the ex-CEO of FTX, of flouting federal election law by using dark money groups to conceal millions in campaign donations to Republicans during the 2022 primary campaign.

Bankman-Fried was the CEO of the massive cryptocurrency exchange FTX until November when the company abruptly imploded and filed for bankruptcy. Multiple U.S. regulatory agencies are now investigating Bankman-Fried, 30, who presented himself as a grown-up in the unregulated cryptocurrency world, and the claims that his companies misused billions in customers’ money.

In a complaint to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) cited a November interview between Bankman-Fried and YouTuber Tiffany Fong, in which Bankman-Fried claimed to be “the second or third biggest Republican donor this year.”

Bankman-Fried is widely known to have donated roughly $37 million to Democratic candidates in 2022. But in the interview, he claimed to have donated “about the same amount” to Republicans. He said he did it anonymously because he anticipated a backlash if his ties to the GOP became public.

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He apparently hid these donations by contributing to dark money groups that can spend unlimited money to influence elections and are not required under federal law to disclose the names of their donors.

But under the law, those groups are supposed to maintain a pretense of operating separately from any political candidates. By admitting that he was relying on dark money groups as merely a pass-through, CREW argued, Bankman-Fried is relinquishing any plausible deniability that he was donating millions to support his preferred candidates directly. Bankman-Fried did not respond to a request for comment.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 7:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-a-billionaire-s-lawsuit-against-beto-o-rourke-portends-a-bleak-future-of-dark-money-contributions-analysis/ar-AA16Vfxi?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=9a3f80202d1f45d7e742c56001e9f5ce

Billionaire Kelcy Warren is suing former Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke for defamation after he publicly denounced Warren’s $1 million donation to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s 2021 campaign, Truthout reports.


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Truthout reporters Andy Lee Roth and Steve Macek analyzed the pending lawsuit — which was originally reported by Jordan Uhl at Lever News — and what the legal action means for the future of the relationship between money and political campaigns.

The donation was reported by the Texas Ethic Commission and Federal Election Commission to be the “single largest donation” towards any political campaign — both state and federal.

READ MORE: How Donald Trump's massive 'dark money machine' is 'designed to confuse': report

The former Texas congressman has called out Governor Abbott in the past for not holding the Texas oil and gas companies from which Warren’s company, Energy Transfer Partners, makes a billion-dollar profit.


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Despite Warren’s claim that O’Rourke's public criticism is defamation because he suffered “mental anguish,” Lee Roth and Macek offer three reasons why the lawsuit likely won’t go anywhere:

・First, truth often prevails in defamation cases. And the assertion that Warren’s top-dollar donation influenced the campaign outcome is “likely true.”

・Lee Roth and Macek highlight that subjective opinions “are not generally actionable.” And O’Rourke’s criticism is based on his opinion of the billionaire’s contribution, but his critique also sits on “factual evidence”.

・Warren, who is worth $5 billion, is considered a “public figure” by the Supreme Court’s definition: someone with “general fame or notoriety in the community and pervasive involvement in ordering the affairs of society.” There’s proof that Warren has donated to a long list of political candidates across the country, to political actions committees, proving his “pervasive involvement” in campaigns. Therefore, it would be difficult to prove that O’Rourke exhibited “malice” or “knowingly uttered falsehoods or, at least, acted in reckless disregard of the truth — in order to claim any damages.”

READ MORE: How 'dark money' funded the far-right campaign against Gretchen Whitmer’s COVID-19 policies: report

Nonetheless, as Uhl wrote, the legal action against O’Rourke still “could send an intimidating message to political candidates across the country: if you suggest billionaire donors buy political influence, you could face severe punishment.”

Additionally, Lee Roth and Macek assert that the lawsuit is an example of a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP), which are defined as “attempts to use civil tort action to stifle political expression.”

And although SLAPPs are not legal in Texas, the lawsuit also exemplifies use “of the legal tactic to deter critical speech,” Uhl reports.

Nonetheless, The Texas Citizen Participation Act (TCPA) says that people like O’Rourke who are “defendants of frivolous SLAPP actions” — and being sued for exercising the freedom of speech — can request that the case be dismissed.

In their conclusion, Lee Roth and Macek warn this specific lawsuit is a direct reflection of dark money groups' influence on political campaigns. The writers also pointed to a recent Project Censored report that found GOP lawmakers continue to push legislation that makes "it more difficult, if not impossible, to identify the sources of dark money contributions, ultimately shielding them from public scrutiny.”Why a billionaire’s lawsuit against Beto O’Rourke portends a bleak future of 'dark money contributions': analysis

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-and-jared-kushner-s-galling-scheme-to-profit-from-election-lies-revealed/ar-AA1722PR?cvid=e2e5558bece3450b9ef4345c55bdce9e&ocid=winp2fptaskbar

Trump and Jared Kushner's 'galling' scheme to profit from election lies revealed


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Alittle-noticed nugget unearthed by the Jan. 6 committee found Donald Trump tried to profit off his election lies by trademarking one of his catchphrases about his loss.

Former President of the United States Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a
Former President of the United States Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a
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The investigation dug up an email from former White House chief of staff Dan Scavino sent to Jared Kushner showing the former president wanted to obtain trademark protection for the phrase "rigged election," reported Los Angeles Times columnist Nicholas Goldberg.

“Hey Jared! POTUS wants to trademark/own rights to below, I don’t know who to see — or ask,” Scavino said in the email just days after the 2020 election.

Kushner then forwarded the message, titled "POTUS requests," to various White House aides urging them to take action.

READ MORE: Sidelined: How the Trump-DeSantis face-off is causing chaos in the GOP

“Guys — Can we do ASAP please?” Kushner said, highlighting the phrase "Rigged Election!" in the email.

Presumably, Goldberg wrote, the ex-president hoped to raise money by hawking merchandise based on his corrosive lie about the election while muscling other vendors out of the way.

"What’s especially galling about it is that Trump would have been profiting off an utter lie, a cynical political manipulation that threatened to undermine American democracy: the pretense that the 2020 election had been stolen from him," Goldberg wrote. "In the end, Trump did not successfully trademark the phrase, or perhaps was talked out of it by his lawyers. The rest of us can continue to sell 'Rigged Election' caps if we choose to."

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2023 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

geee his debt disapeared and he never disclosed it.

geee bet the liberal so called liberal will not put this front page will they.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-owed-millions-to-foreign-creditors-why-it-matters/ar-AA15z2Oc?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=ccb2f568a87246399ff9f45522cf08ab

Trump Owed Millions to Foreign Creditors - Why it Matters


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Attorney General has uncovered that former president Donald Trump had approximately $19.8 million in undisclosed debt owed to a foreign creditor.

The debt was uncovered after New York attorney Letitia James obtained documents from The Trump Organization earlier this year. The records showed a previously unreported liability of $19.8 million listed as “L/P Daewoo.”

The debt was reportedly owed to South Korean company, Daewoo – a company with links to North Korea. The documents reveal that the debt has stayed relatively the same at $19.8 million between 2011 and 2016.

However, five months into Trump’s presidency, the balance of the debt owed dropped to $4.3 million and was then paid off shortly after that. The documents do not specify precisely who paid off the loan, but state, “Daewoo was bought out of its position on July 5, 2017”.

This debt did appear on The Trump Organization’s internal; paperwork but was not disclosed in Trump’s public disclosure of finances.

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Disclosure Procedures
These documents must be submitted to federal authorities by any presidential candidate before and after entering the oval office.


Although the law does require personal loans to be disclosed, it does not require that business loans are disclosed – unless the individual is personally liable for the loan.

Based on this, it is not clear whether the former president acted illegally or not. Although Trump owns 100% of the entities responsible for the debt, it is unknown whether he personally guaranteed the liability.

Dan Alexander from Forbes explained this further, “although officials have to list personal loans on their financial disclosures, the law does not require them to include loans to their companies unless they are personally liable for the loans.”

This leaves an open question over whether he personally guaranteed these loans, and therefore broke the law.”

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2023 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/jared-kushner-s-private-equity-firm-concealed-the-origins-of-saudi-backed-funds-and-used-the-sec-s-own-rules-to-help-them-do-it-report-says/ar-AA17pwYC?cvid=c78f14fff7f6456e8307e1fe82779446&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover

Jared Kushner concealed the origins of Saudi-backed funds for his private equity firm and used the SEC's own rules to help him do it, report says

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2023 11:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

there is only one reason you would not want to know where all the money comes from in politics... corruption is your game...

IE citizens united where the right wing argued for it and the supreme idiots gave it to them.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ron-johnson-joins-all-senate-republicans-to-block-bill-aimed-at-disclosing-big-political-donors-identities/ar-AA13AEqk?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=5e056716dd414ae7b12bb3f2a51b1216

Ron Johnson joins all Senate Republicans to block bill aimed at disclosing big political donors’ identities


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A bill that would close loopholes which allow big political donors to remain anonymous failed in the Senate last month on a party-line vote. The bill needed 60 votes to clear the hurdle of the filibuster to advance, but was blocked 49-49 by Republicans. Every Democrat present voted in favor of the bill.

Neither of Wisconsin’s senators voted in favor of the bill, named the Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act, though for very different reasons. Sen. Ron Johnson joined all his fellow Republicans in voting no. Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a co-sponsor of the bill, was absent for the vote because she was isolating with COVID, her press secretary said. Republican Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho also was absent.

Among several measures, the bill would expand the prohibition on campaign spending by non-U.S. citizens and make it a crime to establish corporations, companies or other entities with the intent to conceal the identity of a political donor. The DISCLOSE Act also would require organizations such as some corporations, labor unions and political groups to disclose within 24 hours campaign expenditures of more than $10,000 to the Federal Elections Commission.

Baldwin tweeted her support of the bill before and after it failed, noting that “Senate Republicans once again chose corporate special interests and dark money donors over election transparency by blocking the #DISCLOSEAct. Americans should know who’s influencing their vote.”

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/saudi-arabia-s-golf-case-threatens-to-spill-kingdom-secrets/ar-AA18wtjG?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=3636907bc6c54da5994601d1beb3df8f&ei=75

Saudi Arabia's golf case threatens to spill kingdom secrets


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials who oversee Saudi Arabia's tens of billions of dollars in U.S. investments haven’t been shy about flaunting their ties with top American business and political figures, down to wearing MAGA caps as they swing golf clubs alongside former President Donald Trump. But they’ve been silent about many of the details of these relationships.

FILE - Former President Donald Trump, left, talks with Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, center, and Majed Al-Sorour, CEO of Golf Saudi, on the 16th hole during the first round of the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, NJ., July 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
That’s changing as a result of a federal lawsuit in California pitting the Saudi-owned golf tour upstart LIV against the PGA Tour. A judge, citing what she described as the kingdom's hands-on management of LIV, found that when it came to the new golf league, Saudi officials and the Saudi government aren't shielded from U.S. courts the way sovereign nations usually are.

FILE - Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, left, former President Donald Trump, second from left, Greg Norman, LIV Golf CEO, third from left, and Majed Al-Sorour, CEO of Golf Saudi, watch the start of the second round of the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, N.J., July 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

While Saudi Arabia is fighting the decision, insisting U.S. courts have no jurisdiction over its high officials, the ruling means lawyers for the PGA Tour would be able to question top officials about business secrets that the Saudis have held close, such as details of deal-making involving 2024 presidential candidate Trump and others.

U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman found that the Saudis had smacked up against a commercial exception to U.S. laws on sovereign immunity.

Yasir al Rumayyan, appointed under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to manage the oil-rich Saudi government’s $600 billion-plus stockpile of wealth, is “up to his eyeballs” in managing the golf tour, Labson Freeman declared.

The finding follows PGA Tour claims that al Rumayyan himself recruited LIV players, approved LIV contracts and was otherwise the golf league's decision-maker and manager. Lawyers for Saudi Arabia counter that Rumayyan's actions were those of an eager investor, not of someone actually running a business.

The case matters beyond the world of golf. Saudi Arabia has been assertive in U.S. business investments and political relationships and could now face court demands for greater transparency and accountability.

The insistence by Saudi officials that U.S. courts have little or no say over their actions is especially sensitive. Last year, the kingdom, with legal backing from the Biden administration, successfully argued that American courts had no authority to try the prince in a lawsuit over the 2018 killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi. U.S. intelligence officials had concluded that aides and other Saudi officials sent by the prince killed Khashoggi. The slaying has opened a lasting rift between the Biden administration and Prince Mohammed, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler.

Longstanding international law generally protects the leaders and government of one country from being hauled into another country's courts. Congress carved out commercial activity as an exception to that sovereign immunity in 1976.

-The PGA Tour argued in a filing Friday that Saudi Arabia and its sovereign wealth fund under the prince have a record of flip-flopping on insisting upon sovereign immunity, depending on whether doing so works to their advantage in various business deals and lawsuits.

Saudi Arabia's critics and independent legal experts and analysts say the kingdom may be in a tough spot legally.
“It seemed to me very clear that it wasn't immune" from U.S. courts when it came to operating the LIV golf tour and tournaments, said Donald Baker, a lawyer and a former head in the Justice Department's antitrust division who is not involved in the case.

Baker projected the case could lead to California's Northern District federal court seeking depositions from Saudi royals. Any decisions on whether other Saudi government business deals in the United States have similarly lost their immunity from U.S. courts would have to be made on a case-by-case basis, he said.

Sarah Leah Whitson, who runs the Democracy for the Arab World Now rights group founded by Khashoggi, said that "if they want to have sovereign immunity from their business transactions, it means they can sue people, they can demand that the judicial system enforces contracts and the laws governing contracts, but nobody can impose that against them. Nobody can hold them accountable.”

The Saudi-funded professional golf tour, now in its second season and with a slogan of “Golf, but louder,” is known for its blaring music, record multimillion-dollar purses, ties with Trump and unfriendly rivalry with the PGA Tour. Trump courses this year will host three LIV tournaments, in deals whose financial terms have not been publicly disclosed.

Saudi Arabia's immunity problem comes in an antitrust lawsuit that was initially brought by LIV players against the long-established PGA Tour. The case already has revealed that the Saudi government's sovereign wealth fund owns 93% of LIV.

A lawyer for Saudi Arabia's side of the case did not respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking comment. A LIV spokeswoman referred questions to the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, which also did not respond to requests for comment.

Under the now eight-year rule of Saudi Arabia's king, Salman, his son Prince Mohammed has made the kingdom's sovereign wealth fund a primary tool of Saudi investment at home and abroad. The prince is the fund's chairman. Saudi officials say the aim is to diversify the kingdom's oil-funded economy.

Under Prince Mohammed and fund governor al Rumayyan, the fund has more than $30 billion invested in Uber, Meta, luxury electric car brand and Tesla rival Lucid, Paypal, Costco and other publicly traded U.S. businesses.

The fund also has consolidated Saudis' relationship with the Trump family, using Trump golf courses and directing $2 billion to the investment firm of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Rumayyan sits on the board of Uber. He plays golf with Trump. He triggered one of Elon Musk's biggest tweet storms and legal cases, when Musk tweeted about what he later testified was the prospect of a Saudi sovereign wealth fund deal to take Tesla private.

The Saudi sovereign wealth fund also is spending heavily on sports. In addition to creating the LIV golf tour, the Saudis have bought the Newcastle United soccer team in Britain's Premier League and hosted Formula One races, horse races with record prize money, and other tournaments and matches, from snooker to boxing and chess.

Saudi Arabia is presenting itself as an energetic, youthful and business-friendly government. Human rights groups counter with the word “sportswashing,” saying the kingdom under Prince Mohammed's influence is trying to distance itself from the killing of Khashoggi, the jailing of other rights advocates, and a failed war in Yemen. U.S. critics paint Saudi Arabia's financial deals with Trump and Kushner as the oil kingdom backing one side in America's highly partisan politics.

“They're really trying to rebrand the kingdom ... using sport to reach a much wider public audience and trying to tap into some of the passion that people have," said Kristian Ulrichsen, a fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute in Houston.

To close the deal buying Newcastle United, Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund provided what authorities said were “legally binding assurances” that the kingdom would not be involved in running the team, even though Rumayyan serves as team chairman. Rights advocates argued unsuccessfully for a reexamination of that deal in light of the rulings of the California federal court.

Critics — and the PGA Tour lawyers in Friday’s filing — also contend Saudi Arabia willingly waived sovereign immunity when it submitted government documents in another U.S. case, against a Saudi who had served as a top intelligence official under the previous king. The United States intervened to quash the case on the grounds it threatened to reveal national security secrets.

In the golf lawsuit, LIV players and the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, formally called the Public Investment Fund, argue that unfair practices by the PGA are harming LIV. PGA lawyers respond in filings that it's the reputations of Saudi Arabia and Prince Mohammed that are scaring away business.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 12:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-never-disclosed-larger-than-life-sized-painting-of-him-given-by-foreign-government/ar-AA18L8mT?cvid=7f45e94cc68e46fbab3462d3cf9f890b&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=6

Trump never disclosed 'larger-than-life-sized painting' of him given by foreign government




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Anew report issued by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee claims that former President Donald Trump and his family never disclosed nearly $300,000 worth of gifts they had received from foreign governments.

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Donald Trump at the Elysee Palace.
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According to the Democrats' report, the gifts in question included a "larger-than-life-sized painting" of the former president that they say may now be on display at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, as well as 17 different gifts from the government of Saudi Arabia whose worth exceeds $48,000.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) suggested that the gifts could be a violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause that bars the president from accepting payments from foreign governments, although he did not provide any evidence that the gifts had affected Trump's decision making in foreign policy.

The interim report released on Friday claims that "the failures to disclose gifts from foreign governments were much broader than previously known and extended throughout the Trump Administration," while adding that "internal White House records obtained by the Committee indicate that the listings provided by the White House to the Office of the Chief of Protocol failed to include all the foreign gifts received by former President Trump and the First Family not only in 2020, but throughout the Trump Administration."
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 1:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

this will not be front pages of the media... if it was a dem it would be.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/signature-bank-threw-a-fundraiser-for-the-congressman-now-probing-how-it-failed/ar-AA18RuPI?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=93cc8a0721c74134d9c1d7191f581e02&ei=8

Signature Bank Threw a Fundraiser for the Congressman Now Probing How It Failed


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(Bloomberg) -- Ten days before Signature Bank collapsed, the House Republican overseeing an inquiry into the bank’s failure was inside its boardroom on New York’s Fifth Avenue.

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PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2023 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/largest-political-donation-ever-trump-ally-received-1-6-billion-through-federalist-society-contact/ar-AA1aElQx?cvid=fb74c46fd08d48b6defd3b1c340f27d7&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=4

'Largest political donation ever': Trump ally received $1.6 billion through Federalist Society contact


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Leonard Leo — who assisted former President Donald Trump in selecting judicial nominees — received a groundbreaking $1.6 billion dollar gift for his network through the Federalist Society; an organization with a tax status that condemns political activism.

A new report published by Politico explains the series of events that led to the announcement of the billion-dollar contribution.

"Leo first met Barre Seid, the now 91-year-old manufacturing magnate turned donor, through an introduction arranged by Eugene Meyer, the longtime director of the Federalist Society," the report reads.

READ MORE: Inside the 'private and confidential' conservative group that promises to 'crush liberal dominance'

"At the time, Leo was the society’s executive vice president, and he is currently its co-chair," it continues. "Meyer envisioned Seid as a contributor to the society, according to a person familiar with the introduction. Instead, Leo cultivated Seid as a funder of his own dark money network. The result was a $1.6 billion gift announced last year — which is believed to be the largest political donation ever."

According to the news outlet, Leo's political activism along with his use of the funds has led to some opposition between him, Meyer, and his fellow co-chair, Steven Calabresi a law professor at Northwestern University.

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