#DarkMoney
8 entries tagged DarkMoney.
People (4)
- Donald Trump Donald Trump is the 45th and 47th President of the United States whose two administrations functioned as the political vehicle through which the Peter Thiel commercial network, the Leonard Leo judicial-selection network, and the Jared Kushner Middle East network exercised documented federal power, including Palantir's expanded government contracting, the Federalist Society Supreme Court confirmations, and the Kushner-MBS relationship that produced the Abraham Accords.
- Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein was an American financier and convicted sex offender who ran a sex-trafficking operation alongside Ghislaine Maxwell, cultivated a network spanning technology billionaires, heads of state, intelligence officials, and elite scientists, and whose unexplained wealth, intelligence-adjacent contacts, and 2019 jail death produced sustained questions about whether his operation served blackmail or intelligence functions.
- Leon Black Co-founder of Apollo Global Management who paid Jeffrey Epstein about 158 million dollars between 2012 and 2017 for tax and estate-planning structures that a Senate investigation said helped avoid more than a billion dollars in gift and estate taxes, and who resigned from Apollo in 2021 over the relationship.
- Leonard Leo Leonard Leo is an American conservative legal activist, the longtime executive vice president of the Federalist Society, the principal architect of the Supreme Court conservative supermajority through the Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett confirmations, and the chairman of Teneo Network, who has directed approximately one billion dollars in dark-money spending through a network of linked 501(c)(4) vehicles to reshape the American judiciary.
Organizations (3)
- Per Aspera Policy Per Aspera Policy is a Thiel-tied 501(c)(4) dark-money organization that steered approximately 200,000 dollars to the Protect Ohio Values super PAC supporting JD Vance's 2022 Ohio Senate primary alongside Thiel's direct contributions, documented by OpenSecrets in February 2022.
- Pioneer Fund The Pioneer Fund is a New York foundation established in 1937 to promote eugenics and 'race betterment' that became the principal financier of race-and-intelligence research in the United States, funding many of the scholars cited in The Bell Curve and the journal Mankind Quarterly.
- Teneo Network Teneo Network is a private, members-only conservative leadership organization founded in 2008 by Evan Baehr and Josh Hawley, chaired since 2021 by Leonard Leo, whose stated goal is to recruit, connect, and deploy influential conservatives across American institutions to, in Leo's words, 'crush liberal dominance.'
Concepts (1)
- Thiel Influence Network The Thiel Influence Network is the set of overlapping commercial, convening, ideological, and political vehicles built around Peter Thiel since 2002, including the Thiel Fellowship, Founders Fund, Palantir Technologies, Dialog, Hereticon, Per Aspera Policy, and Teneo Network, each operating at a different stage of recruitment, capital deployment, or institutional positioning.