Sekulows family paid millions from charities they control

[struggle4progress]

By Aaron C. Davis and Shawn Boburg

une 27 at 6:10 PM

... “Let me take off the hat of the president’s lawyer and put on the ACLJ hat,” <President Trump’s personal attorney Jay Sekulow> said ... His June 16 program then cut to a plea for donations ... “Now, more than ever,” a narrator said, “you need the ACLJ on your side.”

... Sekulow had built a powerful charity empire, leading a team of ACLJ attorneys who jump into high-profile court battles over such hot-button conservative issues as religious liberties and abortion. The ACLJ promotes its work zealously, noting that its representation is free of charge and dependent on the donations of supporters.

That brought in nearly $230 million in charitable donations from 2011 to 2015 — and millions of those dollars ended up going to the members of the Sekulow family or their companies ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/trump-attorney-jay-sekulows-family-has-been-paid-millions-from-charities-they-control/2017/06/27/6428d988-5852-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html?utm_term=.1ac50df40569

[rockfordfile]

1. A crook

[kacekwl]

2. Wow, non-profits

pay the best profits. Esp. for family.

[Ilsa]

3. I bet in the end, he renounces what he claimed were his Christian

beliefs and his whole conversion experience, and tells them "thanks for the money, suckas!"