Mark Meadows Nonprofit Funneled Cash for Legal Bills, Group Says

A liberal group alleges former White House Chief-of-Staff Mark Meadows’ nonprofit employer funneled money to an organization paying his legal bills while he was being investigated for efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to a complaint filed with the Washington DC Attorney General Wednesday.

The group, Accountable.US, claims the Conservative Partnership Institute improperly enriched Meadows in violation of its nonprofit status by giving a $1.2 million grant to another nonprofit, which in turn gave a similar amount to a third entity that provided legal defense funding to Meadows, according to the filing.

The group is asking the ...