#DarkMoney

12 entries

People (6)

Donald Trump Donald Trump is the 45th and 47th President of the United States, whose administrations placed figures from the Peter Thiel, Leonard Leo and Jared Kushner networks in federal power and oversaw the Epstein file releases.
Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein was an American financier and convicted sex offender who trafficked girls with Ghislaine Maxwell across five residences, cultivated financiers, politicians, scientists and intelligence officials, and died in federal custody in 2019.
Leon Black Apollo Global Management co-founder who wired Jeffrey Epstein about 158 to 170 million dollars from 2012 to 2017 for tax and estate advice, left Apollo in 2021, and paid the Virgin Islands 62.5 million dollars.
Leonard Leo Leonard Leo is an American conservative legal activist, the longtime executive vice president of the Federalist Society, the principal architect of the Supreme Court conservative supermajority through the Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett confirmations, and the chairman of Teneo Network, who has directed approximately one billion dollars in dark-money spending through a network of linked 501(c)(4) vehicles to reshape the American judiciary.
Mercer family Family of the Renaissance Technologies co-chief executive Robert Mercer and his daughters, whose private foundation, super PAC contributions and company investments reached conservative organizations, Cambridge Analytica, Parler and 1789 Capital.
Wickliffe Draper Massachusetts textile heir who founded the Pioneer Fund in 1937 and secretly sent nearly 215,000 dollars through Morgan Guaranty to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission to fight the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Organizations (5)

Judicial Crisis Network Virginia 501(c)(4) incorporated in December 2004 as the Judicial Confirmation Network, which ran advertising for Supreme Court nominations on anonymous donations and Marble Freedom Trust grants until its termination on January 6, 2026.
Per Aspera Policy Per Aspera Policy is a Thiel-tied 501(c)(4) dark-money organization that steered approximately 200,000 dollars to the Protect Ohio Values super PAC supporting JD Vance's 2022 Ohio Senate primary alongside Thiel's direct contributions, documented by OpenSecrets in February 2022.
Pioneer Fund New York foundation created in 1937 by Wickliffe Draper to promote eugenics, which became the main financier of race and intelligence research in the United States and of many scholars cited in The Bell Curve.
ProPublica New York nonprofit investigative newsroom established in 2007 and 2008 with funding from Herbert and Marion Sandler, publisher of reporting on the Snowden files, Atomwaffen Division, leaked IRS data, Leonard Leo and justices' gifts.
Teneo Network Teneo Network is a private, members-only conservative leadership organization founded in 2008 by Evan Baehr and Josh Hawley, chaired since 2021 by Leonard Leo, whose stated goal is to recruit, connect, and deploy influential conservatives across American institutions to, in Leo's words, 'crush liberal dominance.'

Concepts (1)

Thiel Influence Network The Thiel Influence Network is the set of commercial, convening, ideological and political vehicles built around Peter Thiel since 2002, including the Thiel Fellowship, Founders Fund, Palantir, Dialog, Hereticon and Teneo Network.