Dark Money Windfall.

In addition, Leo is at the center of a network of conservative nonprofits that have raised millions in "dark money" donations - more than $250 million between 2014 and 2017 alone - to help remake the judicial system, according to The Washington Post. The Marble Freedom Trust's filings suggest that it's involved in funneling dark money to a series of conservative interest groups, including some, like the Rule of Law Trust, that Leo himself helms. Her comic-book howl is the only thing I can think of that might approximate my own reaction to the news that electronics magnate Barre Seid gave conservative kingpin Leonard Leo $1.6 billion, tax-free, for his new "nonprofit" venture, the Marble Freedom Trust. [Extracted from the article]

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