WikiLeaks Donations Topped $1.9 Million in 2010 (Non-Profit Report from Wau Holland)

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Source: Wired

WikiLeaks Donations Topped $1.9 Million in 2010
By Kim Zetter April 26, 2011 | 5:31 pm | Categories: WikiLeaks

A German nonprofit that processes most of the donations submitted to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks has finally made good on nearly a year-old promise to release a report detailing how those donations are spent — though the report remains silent on how much money was paid to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The Berlin-based Wau Holland Foundation, which accepted donations for WikiLeaks via PayPal and bank account transfers, quietly released the report on its website (.pdf) April 16.

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A $15,100 contribution WikiLeaks made to Manning’s defense in January of this year is not reflected in the report, which only covers expenses and contributions through December of 2010.

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According to the Wau Holland report, an additional $152,000 was paid to “a few heads of project and activists,” for services invoiced. This appears to reference salaries paid to staffers, though the report doesn’t specify how that expense differs from the expenses attributed to processing submissions.

The report also doesn’t say how much Assange personally received from the funds, though the Wall Street Journal reported last year that he received about $88,000 in back pay for work performed in 2010.

Read more: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/wau-holland-report/

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