The investigation may be focused on Leo’s alleged efforts to enrich himself using his nonprofits.
Leo “believes that unless he writes the rules, they don’t apply to him. While his handpicked justices are stripping Americans of their rights and brazenly violating ethics rules, Leo is cashing in on his activism,” said Lizzy Price, senior director of strategic partnerships for watchdog group Accountable.US, in a press call this week. “Whether it’s the American judiciary or his own network of conservative organizations, Leo’s disdain for ethics is constant.
Around the time these transactions ramped up — and as Leo began working closely with conservative politicians to manipulate the judicial system in the past decade — Leo’s personal wealth began to balloon. In 2018, Leo paid off a 30-year mortgage on his house in Mclean, Virginia; later that year, he bought an 11-bedroom house in an affluent town in Maine for $3.3 million, which he fully paid off the next year. Then, in 2021, he bought a second house in the same town, Mount Desert, for $1.
Mount Desert is a rich seaside village that serves as a “haven for a number of heirs to Gilded Age oil, industrial and banking barons like the Rockefellers and Morgans,”In the same few years, Leo-affiliated nonprofits funneled nearly $35 million in consulting fees to CRC Advisors and $15 million in consulting fees to BH Group, a for-profit business partly owned by Leo that doesn’t even have a website or advertisements for its supposed consulting services.
As Leo was massively expanding his real estate portfolio, the Trump administration nominated three far right Supreme Court justices who were hand-picked by Leo, after Leo and his dark money
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