Posted on 09/07/2024 3:46:41 AM PDT by Libloather
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s administration allocated nearly $449,000 in taxpayer money to a left-wing legal nonprofit as part of an apparent “sue-and-settlement” plan that put the first transgender inmate in a state women’s prison, The Post can exclusively reveal.
In 2023, the Democratic vice presidential nominee’s office shelled out $448,904 to Saint Paul-based Gender Justice, one year after the nonprofit filed a sex discrimination complaint against Minnesota’s Department of Corrections (DOC), according to a review of public records shared with The Post by the taxpayer watchdog group OpenTheBooks.com.
The complaint argued that the DOC was discriminating by housing the transgender inmate, Christina Lusk, in a men’s prison and denying access to sex-reassignment procedures including a vaginoplasty.
Lusk had received hormone therapy and pursued genital reconstructive surgery before being arrested in December 2018 and charged with meth possession, receiving a five-year prison sentence.
At the time, Lusk was already on conditional release following a 2012 DWI offense.
Though the DOC initially moved to dismiss the suit and touted efforts to defend “some of the most progressive transgender policies in the nation,” the agency agreed to a whopping $495,000 settlement in May 2023 that entitled Lusk to $245,903 in cash and Gender Justice to $198,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs.
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Gender Justice had only received a paltry $1,500 from the Minnesota government in 2022, the year before the unprecedented litigation got underway.
The DOC in 2023 categorized the massive expenses as “legal services” paid to Gender Justice, and the cash to Lusk was marked as “other operating costs” paid to a non-taxable vendor, records show.
Gender Justice got another $5,000 that year from the state’s Office of Higher Education for help with “general management” of “fiscal services.”
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The DOC in 2023 categorized the massive expenses as “legal services”
When does their trial begin for “falsely reporting”?
Trump’s been in court for half a year for this same thing!
Another Democrat aka Demoncrat with no moral fiber ... what a surprise
It is a new day and we hear about another dumb a$$ move from that demonic idiot.
Anyone else notice how much he looks like Kamala’s husband?
Who’s running the country?
Democrat Party = Fifth Column?
Thanks for the ping Liz
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