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EleanorR

(2,395 posts)
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 06:36 PM Jan 2020

This is who Jay Sekulow is

More than 15,000 Americans were losing their jobs each day in June 2009, as the US struggled to climb out of a painful recession following its worst financial crisis in decades.

But Jay Sekulow, who is now an attorney to Donald Trump, had a private jet to finance. His law firm was expecting a $3m payday. And six-figure contracts for members of his family needed to be taken care of.

Documents obtained by the Guardian show Sekulow that month approved plans to push poor and jobless people to donate money to his Christian nonprofit, which since 2000 has steered more than $60m to Sekulow, his family and their businesses.


In addition to using tens of millions of dollars in donations to pay Sekulow, his wife, his sons, his brother, his sister-in-law, his niece and nephew and their firms, Case has also been used to provide a series of unusual loans and property deals to the Sekulow family.

Attorneys and other experts specialising in nonprofit law said the Sekulows risked violating a federal law against nonprofits paying excessive benefits to the people responsible for running them. Sekulow declined to detail how he ensured the payments were reasonable.

This is all highly unusual, and it gives an appearance of conflicts of interest that any nonprofit should want to avoid,” said Daniel Borochoff, the president of CharityWatch, a Chicago-based group that monitors nonprofits.


Sekulow is an ally of the conservative televangelist Pat Robertson and made his name in Washington by fighting against abortion rights and efforts to legalise same-sex marriage.

This article is from 2017 but well worth a read.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/27/trump-lawyer-jay-sekulow-donations
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Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Once again,it has taken
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 06:44 PM
Jan 2020

the Foreign Press to out another Blood Sucking leech . My guess is,their was not a single Candy Ass Reporter State side to work this story. Can't rag on the Nobility .

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
4. How is this different from the Trump Foundation, or whatever they called it?
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 06:56 PM
Jan 2020

Trump had to pay back $2M+ and the kids only got their hands slapped and had to attend classes on how to operate a charity. I didn't see if the kids had to pay back any of the money.

Good grief. I just read the article in full. He may think he has all bases covered, but I should think an audit would be advisable.

I have a feeling that a lot of these Republican clowns run charities on the side and have probably shared ways to get by with it. When Bush was running for office, there were some brothers from Texas who were running several charities for children. I was amazed at how quickly several DUrs tracked their company/foundation down and found the address was a post office box site...whatever you call those places. Not sure how that racket ever turned out.

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
11. Jeebus
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 09:32 PM
Jan 2020

Seems like it's easier to avoid detection when the fraud is committed under cover of religion.

Of course, red don's charity scam probably would have escaped scrutiny if he hadn't been installed as president.


eppur_se_muova

(36,289 posts)
5. So 45's lawyer turns out to be a bottom feeder ? Oh, wait, I should say ...
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 08:01 PM
Jan 2020

So a bottom feeder finally reached the apotheosis of his career by becoming 45's lawyer, a position which has an irresistible allure to the bottomest of bottom feeders ?

{in Homer voice} Mmmmmm ... scummy !

BigmanPigman

(51,627 posts)
7. He sure isn't getting rich off his musical abilities!
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 08:54 PM
Jan 2020

Huckubee says, "Give it up for the Jay Sekulow band"...

H2O Man

(73,605 posts)
8. Recommended.
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 08:55 PM
Jan 2020

There are, at most, perhaps a half-dozen worse people on earth today. But Jay is giving them a run for their money.

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