Trump campaign aide was paid $20,000 a month by Bannon nonprofit linked to alleged fraud

[Nevilledog]

https://www.salon.com/2020/09/01/trump-campaign-aide-was-paid-20000-a-month-by-bannon-nonprofit-linked-to-alleged-fraud/

Senior Trump campaign official Jason Miller appears to have been paid about $20,000 a month for work done for a nonprofit co-founded by indicted former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, according to public court filings obtained by Salon.

The nonprofit — now reportedly under investigation in connection with the federal charges against Bannon — started paying Miller the same month that Bannon's associates learned they were under federal investigation, court documents and public reports show.

The Trump campaign has not disclosed any payments to Miller since news of his hiring broke in June — nor has the campaign disclosed any salary payments to campaign manager Bill Stepien, according to mandatory federal filings. Publicly available court documents obtained by Salon together with Federal Election Commission (FEC) records suggest that the campaign is paying Miller $35,000 a month, apparently through non-public indirect transactions.

Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have charged Bannon, along with co-defendants Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea, with running a multimillion-dollar fraud and money laundering scheme, in which they secretly siphoned millions of dollars in payments from their We Build the Wall crowdfunding campaign through a shell company as well as an unnamed nonprofit. The group disguised the allegedly unlawful transactions with fake invoices to hide their own personal takes, according to the indictment.

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. I swear, it seems like every time someone shakes the tree, more crooks fall out of the tree.

Where are the other republicans in this whole mess? Not one damn word has been uttered by them, other than perhaps Susan Collins saying that she wouldn't vote for trump but still supports him. Go figure out what in the world is wrong w/ her. She's got some mechanisms loose in her head, especially the ones involving logic and concern for this Country of ours (none what-so-ever).

[Nevilledog]

2. Pretty sure criminality is a job requirement.

Probably have to FAIL a psych test.

[Botany]

3. But what about Hillary's email server?

Fucking grifters!

[Marcuse]

4. Jason Miller. I've heard of him.

A former spokeswoman for President Trump’s 2016 campaign says she was offered $1.2 million to settle her claims of pregnancy discrimination.
AJ Delgado sued the campaign in December, claiming her pregnancy made her a liability in Trump world. The father was Jason Miller, a married senior staffer on the campaign.

Delgado’s attorney wrote in a letter filed Friday in Manhattan Federal Court that the defendants in her suit offered $1.2 million in private arbitration in June 2017. Delgado’s lawsuit names the Trump campaign, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer.

Delgado asked that a judge enforce the offer. She alleged in her suit that Miller told her she could not be seen “waddling around the White House pregnant.”

Spicer, who served as Trump press secretary at the time, told Delgado the White House is “no place for a new mom,” papers charge.

Miller resigned from the consulting firm Teneo in June after he went on a Twitter tirade calling Democratic Congressman Jerry Nadler a “fat f--k.”

[link:https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-trump-aj-delgado-pregnancy-20200313-ucsq4nhzrnf3vhxdnm3kikkame-story.html|