Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirements, experts say.
In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career, tax records show.
In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement, the nonprofit routed funds to a personal company of Noem’s that had recently been established in Delaware. The payment totaled $80,000 that year, a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 government salary. Since the nonprofit is a so-called dark money group — one that’s not required to disclose the names of its donors — the original source of the money remains unknown.
In civilized countries, this kind of corruption sinks politicians.
Can you give me some examples of these civilized countries you speak of? Because from all the countries i have a rough idea of their politics off, i remember similarly egregious corruption cases, and in the case of my country, Germany, the blatant corruption often is legal.
There was a German-Canadian Airbus scandal, but that ended with the scandalized Prime Minister getting a settlement from the government for defamation. So I guess that doesn't really count.
In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement
Oh, that's what we're calling blatantly illegal actions now.
A couple mis-truths and some highly unusual arrangements, all very legal and very cool.