This article was originally published in ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1391207
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1391207
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Proudly stupid or stupidly proud? Survey Says?
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Does anyone recall the gentleman who was convicted of aiding terrorists after he provided coaching to a middle eastern group on how to gain political legitimacy through legal means?
These people should be in prison.
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They (Trump minions) are counting on what they perceive to be Trump’s experience with the Justice System. In point of fact they feel that they are Trump.
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‘YAHOO…I raised $3 million to overturn the will of the people!’ Patriots, all…
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The Robert’s court has made it possible for the plutocrats that control our government to remain anonymous. The only reason that we found out that the tea party was an Astroturf production was by following the money. Right now, I would not be surprised to find out that the money and the plans for insurrection originated in Moscow.
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They raised $3-million to bus them in and still couldn’t get a crowd the size of Obama’s inauguration…
What a bunch of losers…
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I wonder what share of the grift she pocketed.
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After 9/11 the treasury department would investigate who and how terrorists were funded. I remember reading at the time that they actually had more staffers investigating who traveled to Cuba and who sent remittances.
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I interpret this bit o’ news as a sign that there’s a whole lot more documentary evidence that will shine a clear and undeniable light on TFG and the funders of the insurrection.
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RAGA doing the RICO.
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Hopefully they’ll soon be doing the hokey-pokey in the pokey.
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That’s what it’s all about
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At that meeting, Stockton said, Wren boasted of having raised $3 million to support the rally. She also described how she had “parked” unspecified amounts of money for Jan. 6 at an arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association, at the Tea Party Express and at Turning Point, a collection of affiliated nonprofits that serve young Republicans.
Routing funds to multiple groups “added a layer of confidentiality for the donor and offered institutional support for the 6th,” Stockton said.
(I am neither a lawyer nor an accountant, as I’m sure is obvious.)
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So if the rally itself cost $500k (which seems high to me), and she gave away more to TPUSA, RAGA, and TPE, I’m guessing there’s plenty of room left over to pay herself a $500k “salary,” various other “employment” benefits, and to pick up a bunch of “business” expenses. So just ballparking this, I’d put the over/under at $1 million of personal grift.
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This is very good stuff. Wren needs to have a whole bunch of long conversations with the DoJ and the J6C. Follow the money.
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That’s my mantra.
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That sounds like a reasonable estimate. I also imagine tfg would have to make money on his own insurrection conspiracy.
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Trump was already raising hundreds of millions through his Leadership PAC. I would not be at all surprised if Wren paid some of her slush fund to Trump’s hotel or whatever (which would help explain how they managed to spend $500k on renting a stage and some basic A/V equipment), but this mostly seems to have been her own grift.
And just for context, Wren pushed out Cindy Chafian as organizer of the J6 rally on December 28. That’s very likely to reflect when the White House decided to take control of the event, since Wren was a campaign insider and Chafian is an amateur nutcase. Trump unexpectedly flew home three days later, blowing off his annual NYE soiree at Mar-a-Go-Go.
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“Structuring” sent noted creationist Kent Hovind to prison, where he learned his lesson and never broke the law again.
Hovind established Creation Science Evangelism (CSE) in 1989 and Dinosaur Adventure Land in 2001 in Pensacola, Florida. He frequently spoke on Young Earth creationism in schools, churches, debates, and on radio and television broadcasts. His son Eric Hovind took over operation of CSE after Hovind began serving a ten-year prison sentence in January 2007 for federal convictions for failing to pay taxes, obstructing federal agents, and structuring cash transactions. In September 2021, Hovind was convicted of domestic violence against his estranged wife.
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