Leonard Leo's Consulting Firm Clients Exposed in Leak [View all]
Supreme Court Puppet Masters consulting firm has worked for Eli Lilly, the Koch network, and a dark-money group pushing the Supreme Court to block a billionaire tax
Rolling Stone link:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/supreme-court-leonard-leo-crc-advisors-leak-1235011906/
THE CONSULTING FIRM led by Leonard Leo, the architect of the Supreme Courts conservative supermajority, has worked for billionaire Charles Kochs political advocacy network and a dark-money group that is currently arguing a Supreme Court case designed to preempt a wealth tax, according to documents obtained by Rolling Stone. The firm even worked to promote a book by Donald Trump cronies Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie.
Leo has played a central role in shifting the high court and its decisions far to the right. As former President Donald Trumps judicial adviser, Leo helped select three of the Supreme Courts six conservative justices. He also leads a dark-money network that boosted their confirmations and helps determine what cases the justices hear and shape their rulings.
The Supreme Court connection has paid off for Leo big time. In 2021, he was gifted control of a $1.6 billion political advocacy slush fund. Over the past decade, Leos dark money network has plowed more than $100 million into his for-profit consulting firm, CRC Advisors.
Leo co-chairs the Federalist Society, the conservative lawyers network. He is also the chairman of CRC. Like many consulting firms, CRC does not publicly disclose its clients. However, several of the firms clients were named in resumes that applicants submitted to an online jobs bank hosted by the Conservative Partnership Institute, which accidentally left the files exposed online.
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Woah, here's a juicy story. I wonder who will get fired over this? It surely won't be Leonard Leo, the Puppet Master himself.