Posted on 01/31/2020 9:01:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON -- Jay Sekulow, one of President Donald Trumps lead attorneys during the impeachment trial, is being paid for his legal work through a rented $80-a-month mailbox a block away from the White House.
The Pennsylvania Avenue box appears to be the sole physical location of the Constitutional Litigation and Advocacy Group, a for-profit corporation co-owned by Sekulow. The firm has no website and is not listed in national legal directories. The District of Columbia Bar has no record of it, and no attorneys list it as their employer.
But Sekulow, 63, is registered as chief counsel at the American Center for Law and Justice, a non-profit Christian legal advocacy group based in an expansive Capitol Hill row house a short walk from the Senate chamber.
A half dozen lawyers employed by the non-profit ACLJ are named in recent Senate legal briefs as members of Trumps defense team including one of Sekulows sons. The ACLJ, as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, is barred under IRS rules from engaging in partisan political activities.
The Associated Press reviewed 10 years of tax returns for the ACLJ and other charities tied to Sekulow, which are released to the public under federal law. The records from 2008 to 2017, the most recent year available, show that more than $65 million in charitable funds were paid to Sekulow, his wife, his sons, his brother, his sister-in-law, his nephew and corporations they own.
Daniel Borochoff, president of the American Institute of Philanthropy, said Sekulow appears to be mixing his defense of Trump with his charitable endeavors. The group has issued a Donor Alert about ACLJ on its CharityWatch website.
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I like Jay, but his son should be nowhere near this issue (or any other issue of importance). I watched him twice on Fox and he is an idiot. Couldn’t talk his way out of a paper bag. I’d be pretty mad to find out that money I donated went to pay this guy’s salary.
They need to visit the cases he has won for freedom of religion.
The AssPress is the among the worst and most biased of all the “mainstream” “news.” The venom drips from everything that they write.
Yeah, the AP KNOWS this is a lie.
People have been donating to the ACLJ for 30+ years.
All of that to defend attacks on religious freedom.
It has nothing to do with Trump, as for most of its
existence Trump was not involved in politics.
If I were Sekulow I’d sue their arses.
Homofascists will go after religious conservatives as they did against the founder of Mozilla
Jay Sekulow created a for-profit firm, apparently precisely to handle this impeachment trial, and that firm has employed him and apparently some other lawyers he knew from his non-profit.
There is zero evidence or suggestion that any money from the ACLJ is being spent by anybody for the Trump defense; Trump is a billionaire, so I’m sure he has no problems paying his lawyers.
I assume the federal government is also paying some money, like for the official government lawyers.
The “steered 65 million” is an hilarious spin by liberal media for “People donated 65 million dollars to pay the salaries of the people who run and work for the charity over 10 years (that’s 6.5 million a year for multiple people, including a highly trained lawyer who fights court cases all the way to the supreme court, and also does a weekly radio show).
Have you ever listened to the daily 1 hour radio broadcast?
Has the ACLU ever argued a partisan political case?
It's nearest leftist equivalent would be the Southern Poverty Law Center with annual revenues of $111 million and an F rating.
So a far worse story about a more than double sized leftist equivalent organization is ignored to highlight a B rating.
Yep, pure and simple. HIT JOB!
They can go after this guy, but the woman who came within a whisker of being the president of our republic? Why hell no!
Id fight for POTUS.
Id fight for Jay. He is a good man, one of the best.
These journolist elitist types have no idea what they are provoking.
A(merican P(ravda)
Conservative lawyers are supposed to work for free, dontcha know?
Did anyone see Fredo Cuomos hit job interview with Alan Dershowitz last night? Truly despicable. And it proved why that dumb jackass is called Fredo.
This is what passes as journalism these days?
Trumped up charges against one side while taking talking points on the kneepads before the Democrats
ACLJ was birthed out of CBN back in the 90’s as was the Christian Coalition.
Jay was a pitbull from the get go. Defending religious liberty cases and challenging the corrupt media long before Republicans realized how deadly dangerous the left was.
His performance during the shampeachment trial is his greatest hour.
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