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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSidney Powell Has Secretly Been Funding The Legal Defense Of The Oath Keepers
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/sidney-powell-funding-oath-keepers-defenseAs the governments prosecutions of members of the Oath Keepers by most measures, the most significant of any to come out of the Jan. 6 insurrection move toward trial, defense lawyers face a daunting task: overcoming more than 2 terabytes of evidence arrayed against their clients, including countless hours of video footage from within the Capitol itself.
Some of those lawyers, it appears, are getting outside help.
A nonprofit founded by Sidney Powell the former attorney for president Donald Trump who has repeatedly attempted to reverse the results of the 2020 election has been covering the full legal expenses of at least one and potentially multiple defendants in the high-profile case, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Since October, the organization, Defending the Republic, has been making monthly payments to the defense attorney for Kelly Meggs, a member of the militant group the Oath Keepers who is charged with seditious conspiracy for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In an interview, the attorney, Jonathon Moseley, said he was aware of at least three or four other defendants who have that arrangement as well. The Oath Keepers general counsel, Kellye SoRelle, said that one of those others is the groups founder, Stewart Rhodes. Offered the chance to deny that, his lawyers said they dont discuss funding.
The revelation, which has not been previously reported, sheds new light on the activities of Powells organization, which was incorporated in December 2020 to defend the constitutional rights of all Americans. By last August, the group had raised nearly $15 million, according to its audited financial statements, and since then has raked in untold cash in donations and sales of merchandise, including T-shirts, drink coasters, and highball glasses adorned with the organizations logo. Yet despite mounting legal scrutiny from federal and state investigators, Defending the Republic has disclosed almost nothing about where that money has been going.
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Sidney Powell Has Secretly Been Funding The Legal Defense Of The Oath Keepers (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
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kacekwl
(7,016 posts)1. The question is
who's funding Sindney Powell ?
Chainfire
(17,530 posts)3. Exactly!
NCjack
(10,279 posts)2. Powell should donate her excellent legal services to the Oath Keepers.