Jay Sekulows Son Made Close to $1 Million From Family Charity

[babylonsister]

I guess the poor are good targets because these asshats sure do like to rob from them. No conscience whatsoever; Sekulow and dt are two peas in a pod.

Jay Sekulow’s Son Made Close to $1 Million From Family Charity
Trump’s lawyer appointed his son as a ‘director’ of his religious nonprofit when the kid was just 18. His prior experience? An internship at Nickelodeon.
Kelly Weill
07.03.17 1:00 AM ET


Poor Christians opened their wallets to a religious nonprofit run by Donald Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow. In turn, Sekulow hired one of his own teenage sons—straight out of a Nickelodeon internship—and named him a “director” of the charity, where the son subsequently earned nearly a million dollars.

Authorities in New York and North Carolina are investigating Sekulow’s charity, Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism, following reports that the nonprofit doled out millions to Sekulow and his immediate family. On Tuesday, The Guardian revealed that the so-called charity led an aggressive telemarketing campaign, asking impoverished Christians to “sacrifice” their money, or warning them that “Islamic extremists are headed in your direction, and you are most likely the main target.”

Over $886,000 of those donations from CASE and its related organizations was paid out to Logan Sekulow, Jay’s son, who was first named a CASE “director” when he was just 18.

The Sekulow family has full control of CASE, which raked in $229 million in donations from 2011 to 2015 alone, The Washington Post reported. CASE solicited donations through an aggressive phone campaign. A script for CASE telemarketers, obtained by The Guardian, instructed callers to pressure the poor for money. “Could you possibly make a small sacrificial gift of even $20 within the next three weeks?” the script instructed telemarketers to ask retirees, the unemployed, and other people who said they were too poor to give. The donations would go toward preserving “our traditional Christian values,” the script said.

But over $886,000 of those funds were paid to Logan Sekulow over 12 years in his function as a director, according to tax documents.

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[Penn Voter]

1. Jesus is big business to this family

they are con artists who have become rich selling Jesus. Their version of Jesus, is "supply side" Jesus. The one who believes that blessed is he who believes in a small capital gains tax.

[secondwind]

2. Sure hope this bastard goes to jail and he has to return all the money.

I'm so sick of these con artists.

[Vinca]

3. The Art of the Con. No wonder Sekulow is Trump's attorney.

Fundies must be the most gullible people on earth.

[kentuck]

4. Sarah Palin is very jealous.

This grifter makes her look like an amateur.