A right-wing nonprofit organization known for its criticism of Democrats paid acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker nearly $1 million from 2016 through nearly the end of 2017.
The revelation was made public in Whitaker’s public financial disclosures, which were released Tuesday by the Justice Department.
Several news outlets, including the Associated Press and CNN, as well as outside groups like American Oversight, had requested the documents.
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The $904,000 in income last year came from the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, where he worked as an executive director from October 2014 to September 2017.
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Before becoming chief of staff to Sessions, Whitaker worked as director of FACT, a conservative nonprofit ogranization whose website said it provides accountability, ethics, and transparency “by hanging a lantern over public officials who put their own interests over the interests of the public good.”
The forms show that from Jan. 1 to Sept. 14, 2017, Whitaker was paid $502,000. The year prior, he was paid 402,000 in 2016, tax filings from FACT shows.
FACT received a $1 million contribution in 2017 from a single donor whose identity is not publicly disclosed on its tax return.
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