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Billions in ‘nonprofit’ peculation
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Posted By: 4250Luis, 8/26/2025 4:16:32 PM

Starting to lift the lid off a far, far larger scam, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick just nixed $7 billion in “advance payments” that Biden administration staffers aimed to divert to a “nonprofit” controlled by other Democratic insiders. The bigger scam being, of course, how the left (and lots of plain-old Dem machines) feeds off government-funded “charities.” It’s a huge part of the “swamp,” though of course its denizens pretend their motives don’t reek. In this case, the Bidenites were in too much of a hurry to make the theft fully legal: After President Donald Trump’s victory last November,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: NorthernDog 8/26/2025 4:46:01 PM (No. 1995815)
I have long suspected many of these non-profits were shady operations. Many are multi-million dollar operations that constantly lobby the government for funding. They are non-profits because all the money is siphoned off.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Starboard_side 8/26/2025 7:32:36 PM (No. 1995901)
Need to find a simple way of connecting much of the spending reductions and adjustments (stop calling them cuts) to the out of control deficits. Link to ability to fund actual programs instead of the scheme operating as a laundering machine to employ advocates and political operations. Need to know how many years some of these schemes have been deployed.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: JimBob 8/26/2025 10:12:57 PM (No. 1995965)
#1 said it well. I used to think of a 'non-profit' generally as a local volunteer group working to benefit the local community. I realized, some years ago, that an organization will label itself a 'non profit' I think primarily to avoid various taxes and regulations. The people running the larger ones apparently pay themselves very well, often in the Million$ of dollar range, (PBS and NPR come to mind).Other 'non-profits' may have 'Executive Directors' who do not make that much -at least 'on the books'- but they hire their grown children and in-laws as 'consultants' at salaries of several hundred thousand dollars a year (the United Way 'Combined Federal Campaign' comes to mind).... in fact, their pockets is where the money goes. All the cash that would be 'profit' disappears down 'Rat holes.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: franco 8/27/2025 2:34:39 PM (No. 1996236)
Peculation... A word not often seen in print, so I looked it up on Merriam-Webster's on-line dictionary. Single-word equivalent: Embezzlement. Now that word I know... and it's well-understood in law enforcement and legal circles Why the NYP has to water down its language in this case is disturbing.
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