Elijah Cummings’s Wife Used Her Charity To Pay Her For-Profit Company, Documents Show

Daily Caller ^ | 6-6-2019 | Andrew Kerr

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* The wife of House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings used her charity to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars into her private LLC, according to new documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
* Maya Rockeymoore Cummings’s charity receives funding from organizations with interests before her husband’s congressional committee.
* Multiple charity watchdogs said the previously undisclosed financial arrangement between Rockeymoore Cummings’s charity and for-profit company raises red flags.

House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings’s wife has funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars from her charity to her private for-profit organization, according to a previously undisclosed cost-sharing arrangement that multiple experts said raises red flags.

Maya Rockeymoore Cummings’s charity, the Center for Global Policy Solutions (CGPS), paid her for-profit venture, Global Policy Solutions LLC, over $250,000 in “management fees” between 2013 and 2015, according to the charity’s audited financial statements covering those years. The management fees were paid in addition to a cost-sharing agreement where the charity pays for its share of equipment, personnel and other expenditures.

Rockeymoore Cummings’s charity is funded by companies with interests before her husband’s congressional committee, according to the Washington Examiner.

“It’s self-dealing. It’s taking the charity’s resources and turning them into personal profits,” National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) investigator Tom Anderson told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “IRS law doesn’t allow a charity for this purpose. This isn’t for the public interest, this is for her personal interest. You can’t do that.”

Cummings, a Maryland Democrat, listed his wife’s LLC on his most recent financial disclosure reports as an asset worth between $250,001 and $500,000.

The NLPC filed an IRS complaint against Rockeymoore Cummings’s charity and LLC in May

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[Candor7]

One law for Dems, and another for the rest of us.

[GOPJ]

Amazing how companies making billions have managed to corrupt the entire US .gov with a pittance.

Corruption starts in DC and works it way down - destroying everything that's good in it's path.

[immadashell]

Rep. Clay has paid out nearly a million dollars in campaign funds to his sister’s law firm.

Don’t stop there. Track the political contributions of the sister’s law firm. Chances are they ended up in the accounts of other DIMs who subsequently made contributions back to Clay. Any white man would be investigated for laundering.

[Liz]

The Clay Family Laundromat.