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Conservative nonprofit with obscure roots and undisclosed funders paid Matthew Whitaker $1.2 million

The acting attorney general worked for the group for three years.

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1. The Koch Brothers fund and control the DonorsTrust and the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust aka FACT 
2. Whitaker is on Koch’s payroll as FACT’s president. #GOPswamp
3. Whitaker’s job was to help Republicans win elections by targeting Democrats, especially Hillary Clinton.
4. Whitaker begin targeting Robert Mueller because of #RussiaGate
5. Whitaker went from making $79,000 a year to $500,000 in his first 9 months at FACT. Finally, being paid $55,000 PER MONTH.
6. “It’s very possible that this organization is misusing its status as a charity. It appears the IRS never gave approval to FACT.” DUH

In the three years after he arrived in Washington in 2014, Matthew G. Whitaker received more than $1.2 million as the leader of a charity that reported having no other employees, some of the best pay of his career.

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust described itself as a new watchdog nonprofit dedicated to exposing unethical conduct by public officials. For Whitaker, it became a lucrative steppingstone in a swift rise from a modest law practice in Iowa to the nation’s top law enforcement job. As FACT’s president, he regularly appeared on radio and television, often to skewer liberals.

When the nonprofit was launched in 2012, Whitaker was a former U.S. attorney with a modest legal practice in Iowa that paid him $79,000 that year, according to a later disclosure he filed for a failed Senate bid. He also had several local side businesses, including a day-care center and a trailer manufacturer.

Whitaker’s 2017 pay from the charity — more than $500,000 for the first nine months, or half the charity’s receipts for the year, according to tax filings — and the group’s earlier, dormant incarnation have not been previously reported by media.

In the three years he worked at the charity, Whitaker’s pay rose sharply each year, tax filings show. Last year, he was paid $55,000 a month. In all, he earned $1,219,000 — more than a third of the donations the group received from 2014 to 2017.

The Post determined from other tax filings that the money came from DonorsTrust, a large nonprofit organization that wealthy contributors have used to anonymously give millions to conservative nonprofits in recent years.

The president of DonorsTrust, Lawson Bader, declined to identify the source of the funding contributed to FACT through his organization.

FACT launched its advocacy efforts shortly after Whitaker took over, describing itself in a news release as a “new watchdog group.”

• Climate Change Denial
• Promoting Islamophobia
• Killing ObamaCare
• Killing social programs
• Federalist Society - installing federal and Supreme Court Justices, Kavanaugh
• Everything Libertarian; No government. No taxes. Trickle Down Economics...Tax Cuts, Corporate Welfare.
• Controlling Education

• Raymond Wotring
• James Crumley,  provides marketing services to conservative nonprofits and campaigns
• Noah Wall, now a vice president of advocacy for a conservative nonprofit called FreedomWorks
• William Gustoff, Whitaker’s former partner
• Neil Corkery, conservative activist

• Free Market American Educational Foundation
• Free Market America Inc
• Americans for Limited Government
• FreedomWorks