Sidney Powell group raised more than $14 million spreading election falsehoods

[underpants]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/sidney-powell-defending-republic-donations/2021/12/06/61bdb004-53ef-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html

In the months after President Donald Trump lost the November election, lawyer Sidney Powell raised large sums from donors inspired by her fight to reverse the outcome of the vote. But by April, questions about where the money was going — and how much there was — were helping to sow division between Powell and other leaders of her new nonprofit, Defending the Republic.

On April 9, many members of the staff and board resigned, documents show. Among those who departed after just days on the job was Chief Financial Officer Robert Weaver, who in a memo at the time wrote that he had “no way of knowing the true financial position” of Defending the Republic because some of its bank accounts were off limits even to him.

Records reviewed by The Washington Post show that Defending the Republic raised more than $14 million, a sum that reveals the reach and resonance of one of the most visible efforts to fundraise using baseless claims about the 2020 election. Previously unreported records also detail acrimony between Powell and her top lieutenants over how the money — now a focus of inquiries by federal prosecutors and Congress — was being handled.

The split has left Powell, who once had Trump’s ear, isolated from other key figures in the election-denier movement. Even so, as head of Defending the Republic, she controlled $9 million as recently as this summer, according to an audited financial statement from the group. The mistrust of U.S. elections that she and her former allies stoked endures. Polls show that one-third of Americans — including a majority of Republicans — believe that Trump lost because of fraud.

[doc03]

1. And got fined $175,000 for fraudulent election claims. Sounds like a profitable

business plan to me.

[Midnight Writer]

3. Yep, that big fine doesn't sound so menacing now, does it?

[Thomas Hurt]

2. How much ended up in the Pig's wallet...

[Irish_Dem]

4. I am sure the orange mob boss always tries to get his cut.

That is probably the real reason he turns on people.

[iemanja]

5. No wonder TFG doesn't like her anymore

She's competing with his own grift.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. The grift is strong with these Trumpers

[Ohio Joe]

7. magats want to be robbed of their money...

Bannon pretty much openly ripped them off and they still give him money... Fuckin-A, they love him even more for being arrested for ripping them off. I really should get in on it and take their money while they have some left.

[Javaman]

8. the grift that keeps on grifting. nt