2013, updated 2014, an AP item: https://tucson.com/news/nation-world/government-politics/article_e5d8d8c0-ed8c-5f22-a906-3dfaea00dabb.html
Mid-item :
“Any donor who thinks an organization
needs $108 million for a three-state grassroots get-out-the-vote
campaign is being taken advantage of,” said Erick Erickson, a nationally
syndicated conservative talk radio host and frequent Trump critic. “It
sounds like a grift.”
In
a statement, Turning Point spokesman Andrew Kolvet said none of the
group’s leaders have inappropriately benefited from their financial
arrangements. If anything, he said, many were underpaid for their
talents.
“If
the so-called ‘experts’ know what it takes to build successful ballot
chasing teams, why are conservatives apparently so bad at it?” Kolvet
said.
Turning
Point was founded in suburban Chicago in 2012 by Kirk and William
Montgomery, a tea party activist, to proselytize on college campuses for
low taxes and limited government.
Despite
early misgivings, Turning Point enthusiastically backed Trump after he
clinched the GOP nomination in 2016. Kirk served as a personal aide to
Donald Trump Jr., the former president’s eldest son.
That's interesting. News then, now, not mentioned. Continuing mid item near the end-
Compensation also soared, with Kirk’s
climbing from $27,000 in 2016 to more than $407,000 by 2021, tax records
show. He bought three high-end properties, all worth over a million
dollars. Millions more were paid out to a cluster of companies linked to
a handful of group leaders and their allies, according to tax filings
and business records.
Kolvet
said that much of Kirk’s wealth was derived from his successful podcast
and radio show, as well as public speaking fees, though he declined to
provide earnings figures.
Yet
specifics about how exactly Turning Point spends its money — and who
benefits — are often difficult to discern because the IRS does not
require nonprofit groups to publicly disclose detailed accounts of their
expenditures. Meanwhile, many of Turning Point’s biggest vendors are
limited liability companies that are registered in states that do not
require public disclosure of ownership.
One branch, the Turning Point Endowment, held more than $55 million in reserve in 2022, while donors were courted to give more.
Kolvet
said the money was part of Turning Point’s “50-100 year plan to
continue reaching generation after generation of young Americans.” He
added that the organization’s leaders were “good stewards of donor
money.”
While building for the future, however, Turning Point has shown a willingness to spend lavishly.
In
2019, the group stated that its leaders would travel first-class or by
charter plane, explaining later that it was sometimes needed to “ensure
the uninterrupted success of the organization’s mission.”
In
2021, Turning Point sponsored a wedding reception for Kirk and his
wife, Erika Frantzve, at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess luxury hotel,
which was also billed as a ninth anniversary celebration and fundraiser
for the organization.
Kolvet
said the event was separate from the couple’s small wedding ceremony,
describing it as an “elegant and gracious way for Erika and Charlie to
mark a landmark in the life of TPUSA (the 9th anniversary) while also
inviting a much larger group of friends and family to celebrate a
landmark in their own lives.”
Other expenditures defy easy explanation.
A
$999,000 payment was made to a limited liability company in Nevada for a
“research project on educational outputs,” according to 2020 tax
documents. The company, called Clocktower LLC, was dissolved in 2022 and
the only corporate officer listed in its business filings is the
president of a firm that advises on tax avoidance strategies.
That's not chump change. It's a cashflow feeding many. The entire article should interest readers. Yet, now, with a dead Charlie nobody's talking money trail. Kash and Pam seem to have a perp and have shut things down without any forensic audits of anything or anybody. Nothing to see there, move on? Huh?
Ending paragraph of that years-earlier item:
“Any insinuation that anyone” at Turning Point “benefited from this is defamatory,” Kolvet said.
That was a statement in a context, but it sure as hell fits today. WTF happened to follow the money?
Here is a YouTube of Charlie's chief-of-staff, (that likely having been a well compensated post), and was there a preacher McCoy's other son, a brother to Michael in TPUSA, well compensated leadership? With a role, of some kind, in the organization, before and after the shooting, with what functions, responsibilities, powers, benefits and persona? Or not? These are basic questions of organizational structure and beneficial interests, which change however, after the publicity and fact of Charlie Kirk being shot dead on YouTube.
Presuming there's money, now greater or not than 2013-14, FOLLOW IT, ALREADY!
That is basic Investigation 101 so who's doing it?
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BASIC QUESTIONS: Who takes over this cash cow, what person, persons, or group with money sloshing around, and what's the potential cash flow in the future, with all this current publicity? I don't know, but I know there's no harm in asking. What are the interrelationships of key people? Who gains, who doesn't?
All for now on this topic and related coverage. But it might show motive to remove Charlie, depending upon what inquiry yields.
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Got it! Found on a web video, Ian Carroll, where about 2-1/2 min into the item, there is a Justin mentioned by Pastor McCoy. The pastor on a video clip loaded by Carroll, from some other resource unknown to Crabgrass.
Of interest? Crabgrass judges it so. All I know is what I find on the web.
FURTHER: One site, two items, here and here, one of which embedded the Carroll video.
More in future posting, maybe.
FURTHER: We'll see whether Charlie had left a will which will surface, or not. There was a ton of money sloshing around, so, we'll have to wait, but the answer exists and will surface. Was there a trust for the children set up, as you'd expect in big buck estate planning?
FURTHER: The widow says the show goes on. View the full statement she made. It should be profitable. There seems ambition to the voice, yet different persons will see her speech differently. I saw it as less rather than more. She is now the CEO of the show.
FURTHER: Grief - https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1764917/erika-kirk-jd-vance.webp
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