SOURCE: BuriedTruth.com, 2020-08-25
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74: Neil Corkery is in charge of the 45 Alliance's finances. "He has ties to several high-profile dark money operations," Walker Davis wrote, "like the Wellspring Committee and the Judicial Crisis Network. In 2018, an anonymous million dollar contribution to President Trump's inauguration was linked to him [Neil Corkery].
108: Maybe the most revealing piece of information on the form, however, is not the group's revenue, mission, or officers ... halfway through the form, where the group is asked to "State the name... of the person who possesses the organization's books and records," there's a familiar name that hasn't been linked to the group before: Neil Corkery.
110: Neil Corkery is a conservative operative known for directing the flow of secret political money. He has ties to several high-profile dark money operations like the Wellspring Committee and Judicial Crisis Network. In 2018, an anonymous million dollar contribution to President Trump's inauguration was linked to him. Corkery's involvement with the new pro-Trump operation links it to some of the country's most secretive and influential political nonprofits.
87: Ann Corkery and her husband, Neil Corkery, have taken turns as president of the Wellspring Committee, a Virginia-based non-profit that channels funds to the Judicial Crisis Network (JCN), which provides the campaign's sharp edge. JCN spent $17 million on television advertising and other advocacy in support of Gorsuch and, earlier, against Barack Obama's proposed centrist replacement of Scalia, Merrick Garland.
96: Neil Corkery is in charge of the 45 Alliance's finances. "He has ties to several high-profile dark money operations," Walker Davis wrote, "like the Wellspring Committee and Judicial Crisis Network. In 2018, an anonymous million dollar contribution to President Trump's inauguration was linked to him [Neil Corkery].
104: Ann Corkery is the wife of Neil Corkery, who is in charge of the "dark money" finances of the 45 Alliance -- closely associated with the Trump administration.
115: Wellspring's delivery into the world came at the hands of Republican operative Ann Corkery while her husband Neil Corkery took the reigns of the more publicly visible Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) and an allied 501(c)(3) "charitable" nonprofit, Judicial Education Project. Like JCN, it's sister "charity" has received considerable funding from Wellspring and other closely-tied dark money groups like DonorsTrust, a pass-through vessel managing the money flow from wealthy donors to conservative and libertarian groups -- including other groups in Corkery's network -- while allowing the donors to remain anonymous that has earned it the reputation of being a Koch-linked "dark money ATM."
117: Wearing multiple hats for various groups in the network, Neil Corkery worked impossibly hard. At one point tax returns showed him working a combined 100 hours a week between his various nonprofits.
124: Maybe the most revealing piece of information on the [45 Alliance tax] form, however, is not the group's revenue, mission, or officers ... halfway through the form, where the group is asked to "State the name... of the person who possesses the organization's books and records," there's a familiar name that hasn't been linked to the group before: Neil Corkery.
126: Neil Corkery is a conservative operative known for directing the flow of secret political money. He has ties to several high-profile dark money operations like the Wellspring Committee and Judicial Crisis Network. In 2018, an anonymous million dollar contribution to President Trump's inauguration was linked to him. Corkery's involvement with the new pro-Trump operation links it to some of the country's most secretive and influential political nonprofits.
146: Ann Corkery and her husband, Neil Corkery, have taken turns as president of the Wellspring Committee, a Virginia-based non-profit that channels funds to the Judicial Crisis Network (JCN), which provides the campaign's sharp edge. JCN spent $17 million on television advertising and other advocacy in support of Gorsuch and, earlier, against Barack Obama's proposed centrist replacement of Scalia, Merrick Garland.
141: Neil Corkery is in charge of the 45 Alliance's finances. "He has ties to several high-profile dark money operations," Walker Davis wrote, "like the Wellspring Committee and the Judicial Crisis Network. In 2018, an anonymous million dollar contribution to President Trump's inauguration was linked to him [Neil Corkery]."
Funders: Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign
181: In August 2018, a group called the 45 Alliance was formed. All three of the group's officers [Jamie Burke, Richard Dearborn, Josh Pitcock] had served on Trump's transition team, and two of them [Dearborn and Pitcock] also served in Trump's White House. During the calendar year in which the 45 Alliance was formed, it was entirely funded by Trump for America, a nonprofit that supported Trump's transition ($150,000); by America First Policies ($150,000); and by the Republican National Committee ($75,000). Neil Corkery is in charge of the 45 Alliance's finances. "He has ties to several high-profile dark money operations," Walker Davis wrote, "like the Wellspring Committee and the Judicial Crisis Network. In 2018, an anonymous million dollar contribution to President Trump's inauguration was linked to him [Neil Corkery]."
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112: Ann Corkery and her husband, Neil Corkery, have taken turns as president of the Wellspring Committee, a Virginia-based non-profit that channels funds to the Judicial Crisis Network (JCN), which provides the campaign's sharp edge. JCN spent $17 million on television advertising and other advocacy in support of Gorsuch and, earlier, against Barack Obama's proposed centrist replacement of Scalia, Merrick Garland.
45 Alliance: Tax Form Emphasizes Mysterious Dark Money Group's Ties to Trump
113: Maybe the most revealing piece of information on the form, however, is not the group's revenue, mission, or officers. It's one that could in fact be missed on the first several passes through the document. But halfway through the form, where the group is asked to "State the name... of the person who possesses the organization's books and records," there's a familiar name that hasn't been linked to the group before: Neil Corkery.
115: Neil Corkery is a conservative operative known for directing the flow of secret political money. Corkery has ties to several high-profile dark money operations like the Wellspring Committee and the Judicial Crisis Network. In 2018, an anonymous million dollar contribution to President Trump's inauguration was linked to him [Neil Corkery]. Corkery's involvement with the new pro-Trump operation links it to some of the country's most secretive and influential political nonprofits.
134: 45 Alliance Mission: association with Neil Corkery.
120: Ann Corkery and her husband, Neil Corkery, have taken turns as president of the Wellspring Committee, a Virginia-based non-profit that channels funds to the Judicial Crisis Network (JCN), which provides the campaign's sharp edge. JCN spent $17 million on television advertising and other advocacy in support of Gorsuch and, earlier, against Barack Obama's proposed centrist replacement of Scalia, Merrick Garland.
Wellspring Committee: An influential 'dark money' group turns off the lights for the last time
98: Wellspring's delivery into the world came at the hands of Republican operative Ann Corkery while her husband Neil Corkery took the reigns of the more publicly visible Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) and an allied 501(c)(3) "charitable" nonprofit, Judicial Education Project. Like JCN, it's sister "charity" has received considerable funding from Wellspring and other closely-tied dark money groups like DonorsTrust, a pass-through vessel managing the money flow from wealthy donors to conservative and libertarian groups -- including other groups in Corkery's network -- while allowing the donors to remain anonymous that has earned it the reputation of being a Koch-linked "dark money ATM."
100: Wearing multiple hats for various groups in the network, Neil Corkery worked impossibly hard. At one point tax returns showed him working a combined 100 hours a week between his various nonprofits.
Public Interest Legal Foundation
86: Neil Corkery, Treasurer
Note also that Cleta Mitchell -- a lawyer and Board Member of the Bradley Foundation and the American Conservative Union Foundation -- is the Chair of the Public Interest Legal Foundation. Mitchell is also associated with Stephen Bannon Bannon's fraudulent Citizens of the American Republic.
Thus, a Neil Corkery -- Steve Bannon -- Cleta Mitchell association is alluded, pending further investigation [via Bannon:Mitchell | Mitchell:Corkery].
Neil Corkery is also listed among the founding Board of Directors (as Treasurer) of the National Organization for Marriage [The National Organization for Marriage, itself, is a member of the ultra secretive and powerful Council for National Policy.]
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