Hillary Clinton’s former campaign lawyer – the man who spearheaded a dirt-digging investigation that led to the unsubstantiated ‘dirty dossier’ on Donald Trump – is now working for Black Lives Matters, according to the secretive foundation’s most recent tax filing.
Attorney Marc Elias’s eponymous law firm was named several times in Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s charity registration renewal filing, which was submitted in California on February 11.
The revelation comes after the leaderless organization faced intense pressure from California’s Department of Justice, which accused it of failing to submit its annual financial reports and alleging it was in delinquent status.
The Elias Law Group is identified in the filings as the organization in charge of the books. The forms also listed longtime Clinton ally Minyon Moore as a member of its board of directors.
Elias and the Democratic National Committee funded a research campaign during the 2016 presidential election that was led by former British spy Christopher Steele, who produced the ‘golden showers’ dossier on Trump.
Black Lives Matter also referenced the Elias Law Group in a New Mexico charity registration statement, the Washington Examiner reported.
Lawyer Marc Elias, who helped fund the now-debunked ‘golden shower’ dossier on Donald Trump, is now working for the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation
A California legal filing by Black Lives Matter Global Network named Elias Law Group as the organization in charge of its books, and lists Clinton loyalist Minyon Moore as a board member
The partnership between Elias and Black Lives Matter, which has been under fire for failing to disclose its financial records, has raised eyebrows for some.
‘The latest filing’s addition of partisan lawyer Marc Elias confirms the group is more political than charitable,’ Capital Research Center president Scott Walter, told the Examiner.
‘But it also suggests that finally some left-wing heavyweights have begun to deal with the embarrassing mess made by a major activist group the institutional Left has failed to, pardon the term, police.’
BLM’s reluctance to release financial records had put its dealings under scrutiny, with California’s Department of Justice last month accusing it of failing to submit its annual financial reports and alleging it was in delinquent status.
It warned that the leaders of the non-profit could be held personally liable if they failed to disclose financial records about its $60 million in donations by the end of March.
The notice came just days after it was revealed that BLM has not had anyone in charge of its finances since co-founder Patrisse Cullors resigned last May.
It is not clear who is currently in charge of the activist group after all three of its founding members – Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi – left the organization.
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Cullors, 38, stepped down as executive director of the Black Lives Matter Global Network last year amid scrutiny of her $3.2 million property empire.
The scrutiny into BLMGN’s finances came after it was reported that the group transferred $6.3 million to Cullors spouse, Janaya Khan, and other Canadian activists to purchase a mansion in Toronto in 2001.
Black Lives Matters leaders could be held personally liable if they fail to disclose financial records about the charity’s $60 million in donations within the next 60 days (Pictured left to right: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi in 2016)
California’s warning followed an order from Washington state instructing BLM to ‘immediately cease’ fundraising in the state due to its ‘lack of financial transparency’
Elias did not respond to a DailyMail.com request for comment.
He served as general council for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, which is now accused of spying on Trump during the race and trying to smear him through unsubstantiated claims he was colluding with the Russians.
Clinton was accused last week of hiring a tech term to ‘infiltrate’ servers at the Trump Tower and the White House.
According to a filing from Special Counsel John Durham, the aim was to try and smear Trump by linking him to Russia.
Durham was appointed by then-Attorney General William Barr to serve as the Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice in October 2020, while Trump was president.
He continues to investigate a case that is sure to anger supporters of the 45th president.
Elias’s eponymous law firm was listed ‘repeatedly in the short-year Form 990 filing by the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. BLM supporters are pictured protesting the death of George Floyd on June 7, 2020
He served as general council for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, which is now accused of spying on Trump during the race and trying to smear him through unsubstantiated claims
Special Counsel John Durham
Durham’s motion that was filed last Friday looked a potential conflicts of interest with regards to former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman, who has been charged with making a false statement to a federal agent. Sussman has pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The former chief investigator of the Trump-Russia probe for the House Intelligence Committee under Republican Devin Nunes, Kash Patel, said Friday’s filing ‘definitively showed the Hillary Clinton campaign directly funded and ordered its lawyers at Perkins Coie to orchestrate a criminal enterprise to fabricate a connection between President Trump and Russia,’ reports Fox News.
‘Per Durham, this arrangement was put in motion in July of 2016, meaning the Hillary Clinton campaign and her lawyers masterminded the most intricate and coordinated conspiracy against Trump when he was both a candidate and later President of the United States while simultaneously perpetuating the bogus Steele Dossier hoax,’ Patel told Fox.
BLM’s board of directors now includes Minyon Moore, who served as political director under former President Bill Clinton. He is now considered one of Vice President Kamala Harris’s closest confidants.
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