Posted on 06/05/2021 9:44:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday he sees no conflict in the nonprofit launched by his wife accepting donations from companies that lobby his administration.
[T]he nonprofit, called The Representation Project, has received at least $800,000 in political donations from corporations that lobby state government in recent years. Jennifer Siebel Newsom founded the nonprofit in 2011 and drew a $150,000 salary in 2019, according to the couple’s most recently released tax returns. She left her job as chief executive officer that year, when Newsom became governor, and now serves as chief creative officer.
State law doesn’t have special rules for charities run by spouses of government officials...
Since 2016, major corporations including the utility Pacific Gas & Electric, AT&T, Comcast, and Kaiser Permanente have contributed to Siebel Newsom’s nonprofit as well as Newsom’s political activities... Donations to the nonprofit jumped by 30% in 2015, the year Newsom announced his plans to run for governor.
The nonprofit isn’t required to disclose all of its donors. Siebel Newsom has been paid $2.3 million in salary since launching it.
PG&E gave $290,000 to the nonprofit between 2016 and 2018... The San Francisco-based utility is a longtime donor to Newsom’s political campaigns, but he announced in 2019 he would stop taking its money due to its role in sparking wildfires. AT&T has given $185,000 to the nonprofit since 2017...
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Melania should set up a non profit so the NRA could donate to her.
The Clinton Foundation was based on such a blind eye to a conflict of interest.
She doesn’t need the money.
Neither does Newsom, but this is how graft works today: Through your family.
Newsom brings to mind the analogy of a dog’s hind leg.
What is a...Chief Creative Officer?
Beneath every virtue signaling leftist politician lies skims and scams.
The nonprofit pay scale is typically far from excessive, especially compared to salaries in the for-profit world. Sometimes, though, organizations get into trouble because a staff member, usually the CEO or Executive Director, is paid an excessively high salary.
No hard and fast rules exist for compensation in a nonprofit, but the IRS can penalize both an organization and an individual for excessive pay. This expectation is embodied in the inurement clause governing nonprofit organizations. Inurement means that the resources of a nonprofit must not benefit a private party. Excessive pay would violate this mandate.
Non-profit organizations are subject to what is known as the nondistribution constraint. Simply stated, this means that non-profit organizations cannot distribute profits to those who control it. The nondistribution constraint is the fundamental distinction between non-profit organizations from for-profit organizations.
In the Internal Revenue Code, the nondistribution constraint is embodied in the prohibition against inurement. “Inurement” is an arcane term for “benefit.” The inurement prohibition forbids the use of the income or assets of a tax-exempt organization to directly or indirectly unduly benefit an individual or other person that has a close relationship with the organization or is able to exercise significant control over the organization. The essence of the inurement proscription is found in the language of Code § 501(c)(3), which provides that no part of a 501(c)(3) organization’s net earnings can inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.
No law in California? Look a little deeper and you’re find a law at the fed level.
wy69
.......Gavin Newsom reminds ALL why so many these days are “anti government” in their thinking. Meaning, “the arrogance” of Newsom proclaiming to the world that “just because hundreds of thousands of dollars, and soon to be millions, are given to my wife that doesn’t mean there is a conflict”...........IS MIND BOGGLING to any HONEST AMERICAN !!!
In American Government at all levels (local, state, federal) all we see is arrogant corruption and incompetence. How the hell, or why the hell should any THINKING person respect government??? As Double R said.....”government is not the solution to our problems, it IS the problem”.
“There are none so blind as those who cannot see”
the goshdarn thing right in front of them, I might add,
“What is a...Chief Creative Officer?”
Someone in charge of finding wildly successful ways to scam everyone in sight?
Chief Creative Officer, otherwise known as the Queen B.
Your discussion of the law is valid—but there are lots of non-profits (large and small) that violate these rules in a thousand different ways.
Among the games they play are paying themselves for professional or other services or padding the expense accounts.
The IRS would need a million more auditors to catch all of them.
A Chief Creative Officer is a fancy term for a no show job that pays at least $200,000 a year.
Or having meetings and conferences at 5 star resorts where they discuss the challenge that they claim to help.
Recall the narcissistic adulterous bastard.
There is a lot more than just 501 money being used here.
The Sacramento Bee reported that a nonprofit Siebel Newsom founded, The Representation Project, which has promoted her causes, financed her documentary films and paid her $290,000 annual salary also has received donations from a host of companies that have lobbied the administration or are involved in significant regulatory issues before the state. They include PG&E and Kaiser Permanente which has done at least $35M in business with the state in the past two-and-a-half years — as well as AT&T and Comcast. Besides the annual salary of $290K, she gets residuals from the films the 501 was financing.
“Among the games they play are paying themselves for professional or other services or padding the expense accounts.”
These are legal loopholes. But according the Fox News, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, received $2.3 million in total salary from her nonprofit, The Representation Project, between 2011 and 2018, according to the nonprofit’s tax returns highlighted in an investigation by The Sacramento Bee. Siebel Newsom’s foundation billed itself as a gender watchdog organization releasing films to “challenge limiting gender stereotypes and shift norms.” Newsom has appeared in two of The Representation Project’s films, the Bee reported. Both paid her as an actress.
She’s milking it. And hubby is protecting her.
wy69
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