When you look @ Jay Sekulow you're looking @ a Jesus scamming crook. "Jews for Jesus"

[Botany]

Sekulow and his family used the money they scammed from people who couldn't really afford to
donate for private jets, vacation homes, huge paydays, real estate, and sweetheart loans.

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Trump lawyer's firm steered millions in donations to family members, files show

Documents obtained by the Guardian reveal Jay Sekulow approved plans to push people to give to his Christian nonprofit, which then paid big sums to his family

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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.

Telemarketers for the nonprofit, Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism (Case), were instructed in contracts signed by Sekulow to urge people who pleaded poverty or said they were out of work to dig deep for a “sacrificial gift”.

“I can certainly understand how that would make it difficult for you to share a gift like that right now,” they told retirees who said they were on fixed incomes and had “no extra money” – before asking if they could spare “even $20 within the next three weeks”.


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

[dalton99a]

1. A low-life thief stealing from charities just like Trump

In November 2005, Legal Times published an article which alleged that Sekulow "through the ACLJ and a string of interconnected nonprofit and for-profit entities, has built a financial empire that generates millions of dollars a year and supports a lavish lifestyle—complete with multiple homes, chauffeur-driven cars, and a private jet that he once used to ferry Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia." In the article, former donors and supporters claimed that Sekulow engaged in a pattern of self-dealing to finance his "high-flying lifestyle." According to a ranking by the American Institute of Philanthropy, a charity watchdog group, Sekulow was the 13th highest paid executive of a charitable organization in the United States.[5]

ACLJ's and CASE's tax returns show that between 1998 and 2011 they paid more than $33 million to Sekulow, members of his family, and businesses owned or co-owned by them;[19] from 2011 to 2015, the two charities paid $5.5 million to Sekulow and members of his family, and $23 million to their businesses.[14] Since 2011, donations to ACLF are routed through Sekulow's family-run CASE,[14][20] and many "transactions that benefit members of the Sekulow family are disclosed on the CASE returns, but not the ACLJ's."[19][20] Between 2011 and 2015, the ACLJ, the "public face of the two nonprofits," collected nearly $230 million in charitable donations.[14]

On June 27 and 28, 2017, The Guardian reported that documents obtained by them confirmed later that "millions in donations" were steered to his family members,[21] that Sekulow "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",[21] and that attorneys general in New York and North Carolina opened investigations of Sekulow's CASE for possibly using pressure tactics in telemarketer calls to raise money which was allegedly misdirected to Sekulow and his family.[22]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Sekulow

[ScratchCat]

2. For those who don't know

He got his start shaking down rural, small town school districts, county offices and the like over perceived discrimination against those of the Christian faith. He would threaten litigation against those who have no money to defend themselves and they would typically settle of out of court(used the old "you better settle or it will cost 10x more....). He was always on Jerry Falwell's show pleading for donations which, well, the above story tells you where all that went. He surely had some legit cases in his early days, but he is little more than a shakedown artist.

[dalton99a]

3. +1

[Botany]

4. Trump's senate trial lawyers (he has already been impeached) are a rogues gallery of shits

Dershwitz .... Jeffery Epstein and O.J.
Pam Bondi .... $25,000 from Trump's charity to not prosecute for his Trump U scam
Sekulow .... Hitting up poor retirees for money to show that "they really love Jesus"
Ken Star .... the great Clinton b.j. hunt, covering up rape @ Baylor so the football team
kept winning, and helping Jeffery Epstein get a stay out of jail sentence for multiple
rapes, child sex trafficking, and God knows what else.
Pat Cipollone ... Worked with Bill Barr and an opus dei (Catholic Taliban)

[2naSalit]

5. Lest we forget...

Ken Starr was the SP for Whitewater which when no there was found after years and millions wasted, suddenly arrives Ms Lewinski with her blue dress and a confidante who told all.

[Botany]

6. Yup!

And the 1st S.P. for Whitewater (a money losing real estate deal) found that nothing
was there and quit after which Newt and company brought in Starr.

[2naSalit]

7. He and sNewtie

began the decades long hatefest against Hillary and made sure it was nationwide and forever from that whole pile of poo. I'll never forgive any of them for it. It nurtured assholes like Sen. cotton.

[Botany]

8. One of the worst things to ever happen to America was Reagan's getting rid of the fairness ....

... doctrine which has allowed for 30 + years of right wing lies aka propaganda to fester and
infect millions of American's minds. Did you know that Hillary Clinton had somebody killed
in order to hide Bill's cocaine ring?

A long time ago as a kid in a very middle class neighborhood in N.W. PA our next door neighbor
was the county D.A. and his brother was Ray Shafer, Governor of Pennsylvania. It was a different
time but he played with the kids in the neighborhood, he supported civil rights, decriminalized
marijuana, was pro civil rights, pro infrastructure, pro public education, and pro environmental
protections you can travel the world and never find a better man and he was a republican too.

[2naSalit]

10. Agree about the Fairness Doctrine...

I knew it would come to no good and it did immediately. We need to push for its return.

[chowder66]

9. I'm sure Trump is priming his supporters for religious grift after he leaves office. nt