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</div><div>Maya Boddie  <b>June 18, 2023</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Republican billionaire Leonardo Leo's trust fund, Marble Freedom Trust's latest Internal Revenue Service (IRS) filing, revealing the former President Donald Trump donor's mission to control right-wing politics, Truthout reports.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Progressive watchdog Accountable.US obtained the recent IRS filing, which according to Truthout, shows the Federalist Society leader "has dumped at least $411 million into fueling right-wing infrastructure in the U.S. since mid-2020."</div><div>
</div><div>Furthermore, according to Truthout, the filing reveals "Leo has spent at least $182 million during the Biden administration to fund right-wing groups from May 1, 2020, through April 30, 2022," noting, "This surge has come as Leo has become more publicly outspoken in attacking reproductive rights as well as efforts to protect our environment and crucial measures that advance Americans' equality."</div><div>
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</div><div>Additionally, it "adds to the growing public knowledge of how Leo's for-profit business works in tandem with nonprofit groups he funds to change the rules in our democracy, and also provides a glimpse of how lucrative this effort is."</div><div>
</div><div>The news outlet reports prior to Accountable's findings, "the Campaign for Accountability filed an IRS complaint against Leo based on other filings showing that <b>seven of his affiliated nonprofits had sent $73 million to his for-profit CRC Advisors."</b></div><div>
</div><div>Truthout also notes:</div><div>
</div><div>As Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) has noted, before the public learned of the existence of Marble Freedom Trust, Leo rose to prominence as a volunteer advising Trump by creating the list of Supreme Court candidates that Trump chose from, as well as by helping to secure the confirmation of three controversial high court nominees — Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett (and helped get numerous other lower court judges appointed). <b>As True North documented, Leo's network played a central role in this right-wing court packing, raising over $600 million from 2014 through the 2020 election. This dark money network has received more than $2 billion when accounting for Marble.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Accountable President Kyle Herrig told Truthout he believes "Leonard Leo is playing fast and loose with his $1.6 billion slush fund, enriching himself and doling out paychecks and favors for his cronies," adding, "This kind of corruption is par for the course for Leo. It clearly pays to do his bidding."</div><div>
</div><div>READ MORE: Charities often move 'dark' money that shapes public policy: report</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Herring said, "This is just the latest development in Leonard Leo's decades-long scheme to push his dangerous, extreme agenda and get rich while doing it. From personal enrichment for himself and his inner circle to his machine of nonprofits advancing the MAGA agenda, we’ve only scratched the surface of Leo’s devastating impact on our democracy.</span>"</div><div>
</div><div>READ MORE: 'Largest political donation ever': Trump ally received $1.6 billion through Federalist Society contact</div><div>
</div><div>Truthout's full report is available at this link.</div><div>
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</div><div>apr 2023</div><div><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/new-details-from-leonard-leos-trust-fund-expose-the-inner-workings-of-the-right/">https://truthout.org/articles/new-details-from-leonard-leos-trust-fund-expose-the-inner-workings-of-the-right/</a></div><div>
</div><div>ne<span style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.3125rem;">wly obtained documents show that the billion-dollar trust fund given to <b>Leonard Leo — the right-wing attorney and longtime leader the Federalist Society who orchestrated Donald Trump’s Supreme Court picks — has dumped at least $411 million into fueling right-wing infrastructure in the U.S. since mid-2020.</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.3125rem;">
</span></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; clear: both; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">The </span><a href="https://accountable.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/990_Marble-Freedome-Trust-2021.pdf" style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">latest IRS filing</a><span style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);"> of the new nonprofit, Marble Freedom Trust — obtained by</span><a href="https://accountable.us/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Accountable.US</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);"> a progressive watchdog group — shows that Leo has spent at least $182 million during the Biden administration to fund right-wing groups from May 1, 2021, through April 30, 2022. This surge has come as Leo has become more publicly outspoken in attacking reproductive rights as well as efforts to protect our environment and crucial measures that advance Americans’ equality.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Leo chose to have most of that, more than $153 million, wash through the Schwab Charitable Fund, a “donor-advised fund” </span><span style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">that serves as a passthrough to help obscure the money trail between a funder and its beneficiaries. In recent years, since Leo secured control of <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/dark-money-leonard-leo-barre-seid" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">$1.6 billion</a> in the largest single gift of its kind from Chicago billionaire <a href="https://truenorthresearch.org/2021/07/the-new-anti-woke-advertiser-is-a-dark-money-group-made-from-an-old-brand-and-fueled-by-secret-cash/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Barre Seid</a>, Leo’s network of groups has relied heavily on donor-advised funds to move cash between entities in ways that can help keep the original donor secret from the public.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.3125rem;"><span style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">marble’s filing included only one other grantee: the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Concord Fund (also known as the Judicial Crisis Network), to which it gave a $29 million gift. The Concord Fund then paid $12 million in fees to CRC Advisors, a for-profit PR firm that Leo has helped helm since 2020.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">Kyle Herrig, the president of Accountable told <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Truthout</em> that in his opinion “Leonard Leo is playing fast and loose with his $1.6 billion slush fund, enriching himself and doling out paychecks and favors for his cronies. This kind of corruption is par for the course for Leo. It clearly pays to do his bidding."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);"><span style="font-size: 1.3125rem;">before Accountable’s latest revelations, the<b> Campaign for Accountability</b> filed an</span><span style="font-size: 1.3125rem;"> </span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23741538-campaign-for-accountability-irs-complaint-leonard-leo-nonprofits" style="font-size: 1.3125rem; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">IRS complaint</a><span style="font-size: 1.3125rem;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.3125rem;">against Leo based on other filings showing that seven of his affiliated nonprofits had sent $73 million to his for-profit CRC Advisors.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Despite more than $1 billion in assets, Leo’s Marble Freedom Trust has no publicly known website, and its street address is actually a UPS drop box in Utah.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Meanwhile, however, Marble disclosed spending nearly $250,000 on “office expenses.” Its disclosed phone number, with an area code for southeastern coast of Florida, has been held for years — well before Marble was created — by Leo’s longtime collaborator Neil Corkery, an anti-gay rights and anti-abortion operative central to Leo’s court capture network.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">This latest filing also adds to the growing public knowledge of how Leo’s for-profit business works in tandem with nonprofit groups he funds to change the rules in our democracy, and also provides a glimpse of how lucrative this effort is.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Marble’s filing shows that in its second year of operations Leo gave himself a raise from $350,000 to $400,000 a year for working part-time (25 hours a week) for the trust he controls. It also reported that he spends 10 hours a week on Rule of Law Trust, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit launched in 2018 with a gift of nearly $80 million from a donor kept secret from the public. Leo is the only trustee of that entity, and Corkery holds its books. Like Marble, it has no website and its address is a drop box location. Its listed phone goes to a law firm.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">Marble’s latest filing shows that Leo’s billion-dollar trust also added a new employee to its operations:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Alex Marshall as CIO, an acronym that typically stands for Chief Information Officer. His salary was listed at a whopping $764,000.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">According to Accountable, until 2021 Marshall was likely working as a branch manager for the investment firm Oppenheimer & Co., a brokerage firm and investment bank, and was likely <a href="https://archive.ph/q2DP0#selection-581.0-595.2" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">making hundreds of thousands less</a> because </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Marshall’s <a href="https://files.brokercheck.finra.org/individual/individual_5004025.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">broker record</a> indicates he completed “entry-level” financial industry exams for principal and supervisory roles.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">How did Alex Marshall get plugged into Leo’s operation?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">As <b style="">True North Research’s Lisa Graves</b> first <a href="https://twitter.com/thelisagraves/status/1657066547335004160" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">uncloaked</a>, Alex Marshall is married to Maria Marshall, who currently works at Leo’s CRC Advisors and previously worked for the Federalist Society</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, the networking group created to get right-wing lawyers into powerful offices. Marshall’s title was “director of operations” in the “Office of the Federalist Society’s Executive [Vice President].” That was Leo’s office, where she handled his schedule, among other roles. She previously worked as U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter’s scheduler.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">She left her day job to work with Leo, who also left his day job at the Federalist Society in 2020 to help lead the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">PR firm Creative Response Concepts, which rebranded as CRC Advisors,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);"> though he still helps lead and fund the Federalist Society as co-chair of its board.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">While she was working for Leo at the Federalist Society, Leo’s Rule of Law Trust paid nearly </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">$600,000 to <a href="https://twitter.com/thelisagraves/status/1657066549214052372?s=20" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">YAS, LLC</a>. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">That is the name of the Washington, DC-filed consulting firm </span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23848651-yas-llc-registration-date" style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">created in 2015</a><span style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);"> and owned by Maria Marshall. Leo’s Rule of Law Trust paid YAS another $175,000 in 2020, after he left his employment but not his leadership role with the Federalist Society.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">The Marshalls were <a href="https://twitter.com/thelisagraves/status/1657066551307010058" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">also guests</a> at the special table purchased by the major “anonymous” donor to the renaming ceremony of George Mason University’s law school in tribute to Antonin Scalia, an event cohosted by Leo.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Allison Pienta, a George Mason student who worked with UnKoch My Campus to obtain public records, revealed that <a href="http://www.unkochmycampus.org/charles-koch-foundation-george-mason-mercatus-donor-influence-exposed" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">the anonymous donor</a> who gave $20 million to rebrand the law school and put Leo in a key role was none other than <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/dark-money-leonard-leo-barre-seid" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Barre Seid</a>. (Charles Koch also gave $10 million to fund the law school.) There is no indication that Seid, <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/172480/barre-seid-leonard-leo-dark-money-king" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">a notoriously secretive billionaire</a>, was there at the Scalia tribute dinner cohosted by Leo.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Marshalls were at that special table alongside<b> Jonathan Bunch, who was later named as a successor trustee at Marble,</b> meaning he is Leo’s potential successor at the billion-dollar trust. Bunch, who is now listed as president of CRC Advisors, was paid more than $1.5 million for consulting by Leo’s Rule of Law Trust in 2018, when he was also working at the Federalist Society with Leo. Two years later, as Heidi Przybyla from <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Politico</em> documented, Bunch and his wife <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/01/dark-money-leonard-leo-judicial-activism-00084864" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">closed on a $1.28 million</a> home on the Chesapeake Bay, a second home a few hours south of their longtime home in a suburb of Washington, D.C.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">As Accountable uncovered, since the launch of YAS, the Marshalls also purchased a second home near the beach in Avalon, New Jersey, the third most expensive zip code in the state. That research revealed that the Marshalls <a href="https://avalonshorehomes.com/rentalproperty.php?Mobile=Off&id=151158&checkin=10/15/2022&checkout=10/22/2022&Price=4000" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">rent out</a> the home, valued at $1.38 million home, for up to $7,700 a week depending on the season.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">As Robert O’Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/leonard-leo-federalists-society-courts/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">documented</a> in the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Washington Post</em>, on the eve of the Senate vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination by Donald Trump to the U.S. Supreme Court,<b> Leo bought a $3.3 million seaside mansion in Maine</b>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Just two months after that story broke, and less than a year after he closed on the mansion, Leo paid off the mortgage in full, for more than $2 million, while he was still working as the executive vice president of the Federalist Society, with a six-figure salary. As the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Post</em> revealed, a year earlier, after Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement and as Leo was advising Trump on packing the Supreme Court as well as aiding the effort to get Trump’s nominees confirmed, Leo <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/leonard-leo-federalists-society-courts/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">paid off </a>his 30-year mortgage 22 years ahead of schedule.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Politico </em>later detailed, after officially joining CRC Advisors, Leo bought a second mansion in Maine, and has spent his growing wealth by purchasing four new cars, paying private school tuition for his children, and obtaining a wine buyer and locker at Morton’s Steakhouse</span><span style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">. He has also donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to religious groups and he has also spent money on electoral candidates himself. Additionally, Leo-tied nonprofits have directed millions of dollars to playing an increasing role targeting voters around elections.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">As Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) has noted, before the public learned of the existence of Marble Freedom Trust, Leo rose to prominence as a volunteer advising Trump by creating the list of Supreme Court candidates that Trump chose from, as well as by helping to secure the confirmation of three controversial high court nominees — Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett (and helped get numerous other lower court judges appointed). As True North documented, Leo’s <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/leonard-leo-federalists-society-courts/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">network</a> played a central role in this right-wing court packing, raising <a href="https://truenorthresearch.org/2022/03/leonard-leos-court-capture-web-raised-nearly-600-million-before-biden-won-now-its-spending-untold-millions-from-secret-sources-to-attack-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">over $600 million</a> from 2014 through the 2020 election. This dark money network has received more than $2 billion when accounting for Marble.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">As <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/01/dark-money-leonard-leo-judicial-activism-00084864" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Politico</em></a><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em>noted, “Campaign-style politics — and the generous paydays that go along with it — are now adjacent to the Supreme Court, the one U.S. institution that’s supposed to be immune to it.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Leo’s ties to such efforts are not only recent. Last month, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Washington Post</em> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">revealed</a> that in<b> 2012 Leo had been instructing Kellyanne Conway, who ran the Polling Company, to bill the Judicial Education Project (now known as the 85 Fund and the Honest Elections Project) to pay Ginni Thomas up to $100,000. </b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">She is the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.<b> That is, Leo was secretly orchestrating the pay of the wife of a Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, from a secret funder.</b> That funder’s identity remains hidden. That year, the Judicial Education Project also paid CRC $165,000. CRC later acquired the Polling Company in 2017, with the help of another Leo group, as <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Politico</em> <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/20/trump-conway-leonard-leo-00074690" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backface-visibility: hidden; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset;">revealed</a> late last year.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">Leo’s income from his for-profit operations or any consulting, such as CRC Advisors, is not required to be publicly disclosed.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">The new filing that Accountable.US obtained provides vital insights into how Leo is using the billion that Seid gave him and also provides new information about the shape of his efforts to remake our courts and our country to advance his view of the world.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">“This is just the latest development in Leonard Leo’s decades-long scheme to push his dangerous, extreme agenda and get rich while doing it,” Herrig told <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Truthout</em>. “From personal enrichment for himself and his inner circle to his machine of nonprofits advancing the MAGA agenda, we’ve only scratched the surface of Leo’s devastating impact on our democracy.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 30.66px; font-size: 1.3125rem; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Note: Lisa Graves, True North’s executive director, contributed to this piece.</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">A correction was made post-publication to correct a typo in a date (changing “May 1, 2020” to “May 1, 2021).</span></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div>