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Sidney Powell nonprofit raised nearly $15M after Trump lost election: report
The Hill ^ | 12/06/2021 | MYCHAEL SCHNELL

Posted on 12/06/2021 1:32:51 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

A group led by Sidney Powell, an attorney who claimed last year's election was stolen from then-President Trump, raised nearly $15 million in the months after Trump's defeat while contesting the election, an investigation by The Washington Post reveals.

The Post cited a financial statement filed in Florida last month by the Powell group, Defending the Republic, that said it had raked in $14.9 million between Dec. 1, 2020 and July 31 of this year.

Roughly $5.6 million of those funds were used to cover legal fees and finance unidentified awards and grants, according to the Post.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Grifters gonna grift.


21 posted on 12/06/2021 2:50:03 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"Powell into money laundering too?"

Dude, you have been hitting the snark pipe a little too hard today.

Where are the allegations that any of this money was misspent, much less "laundered"?

"The group funneled $550,000 of the capital it raised to the ballot audit in Maricopa County, Ariz., which was spearheaded by Republicans, the Post reported, citing a separate accounting by the contractor that oversaw the election review.

At the end of July, Defending the Republic had almost $5.3 million in cash on hand and $4 million invested in mutual funds, according to the audit reviewed by the Post.

The Post reported last week that the federal prosecutors issued Powell a grand jury subpoena in September asking that she provide communications and other records that are linked to fundraising and accounting by organizations she helped steer, including Defending the Republic. Prosecutors have also reportedly subpoenaed a PAC led by Powell that is also named Defending the Republic."


22 posted on 12/06/2021 3:00:57 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least ONE of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, and MERCK)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Kracken, Kracken, Kracken... CRAP.


23 posted on 12/06/2021 3:03:57 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Powell is a good lawyer.

Did you read her book?


24 posted on 12/06/2021 3:13:13 PM PST by sauropod (Meanie Butt Daddy - No you can't)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

$15 mil? Joel Osteen has more than that stuffed in his bathroom wall.


25 posted on 12/06/2021 3:22:24 PM PST by throwthebumsout
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To: newfreep

Pretty cool!


26 posted on 12/06/2021 3:23:56 PM PST by plain talk
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I do not see anything illegal there. Brandon handlers are trying to get her for something.
Unlike Hunter Biden, he’s done nothing, obviously!


27 posted on 12/06/2021 3:31:11 PM PST by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIs)
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To: 1Old Pro

I only donate to The Human Fund.


28 posted on 12/06/2021 3:31:18 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: PGR88

Sidney Powell will need every part of 15 million to pay for her lawyers. She’s being sued by dominion which has the resources. Sidney Powell needs resources too.


29 posted on 12/06/2021 3:32:37 PM PST by ckilmer
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To: plain talk

Office Space with REAL Michael Bolton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03lrL9CFWxM


30 posted on 12/06/2021 4:09:24 PM PST by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: sauropod

Powell is a terrible lawyer. I read the documents in the Flynn case. She had no idea what she was doing, and in fact did not help Flynn at all.

Among many other things, she advised Flynn to commit perjury, and he admitted committing perjury, based — apparently — on her advice.

Her legal argument was shoddy and disingenuous. Her total avoidance of arguing the legal issues, relying instead on spectacular assertions (which were probably true), reflected her poor legal skills.

Honesty would have been a better legal strategy, but like poor lawyers everywhere, she had no idea how to argue honestly.


31 posted on 12/06/2021 4:12:24 PM PST by Gratia
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To: Gratia
she advised Flynn to commit perjury, and he admitted committing perjury

When exactly was that. This is the first I heard of it.

32 posted on 12/06/2021 5:29:01 PM PST by tsomer
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To: tsomer

Flynn had previously made several statements under oath. In his affidavit in support of withdrawing his plea, he said he lied when he made those statements. That is perjury.

Powell was incompetent when she advised Flynn to make that admission.

But her entire representation of Flynn was incompetent for more reasons than that.

She was saved when Trump pardoned Flynn.

There is so much more from a legal perspective about this case, none of it a credit to Powell. To say she was incompetent is in fact charitable to her.

BTW, The Federalist apologist for Powell, in the apologist’s articles on the case, also never addressed the specific legal issues raised by Powell. The writer had been a judge’s clerk without appellate experience or an understanding of the issues.


33 posted on 12/06/2021 6:45:44 PM PST by Gratia
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To: Gratia

This is what confuses me:
Didn’t Flynn plead guilty to a fabricated charge of lying to the FIB? Wasn’t it another (corrupt) Washington firm that advised him to do that?

Didn’t Trump have to intervene because Emmet Sullivan defied a Justice Department directive?

How do you fight a corrupt FIB and DC Judiciary anyway? How does debating legal minutia work when there is no law left, just a labyrinth of worm-holes?


34 posted on 12/06/2021 7:02:50 PM PST by tsomer
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nothing of the sort.

She’s solid and successfully took on Comey and the others.


35 posted on 12/06/2021 8:09:27 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So? Big whoop.


36 posted on 12/06/2021 8:10:23 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: JWNM

There was none. And no outrage amongst the infinite spider webs of leftist fundraising.


37 posted on 12/06/2021 8:11:39 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: 1Old Pro

People giving to that were not “suckers.”

There’s nothing wrong with supporting others who are willing to fight.


38 posted on 12/06/2021 8:17:25 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: plain talk

What money was “laundered” from “whom?”

I don’t think you know what that even means.


39 posted on 12/06/2021 8:18:28 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: proust

She’s not been spending it poorly.


40 posted on 12/06/2021 8:21:13 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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