Leonard Leo Groups Paid CRC $100 Million for Services, Report Says

  • Watchdog says payments to CRC doubled since Leo joined in 2020
  • Leo calls criticism of payments from nonprofits “baseless”
Leonard Leo in 2016.Photographer: Carolyn Kaster/AP
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Nonprofit groups founded by or affiliated with conservative power broker Leonard Leo have paid more than $100 million over a decade to the consulting firm that he took over four years ago, watchdog group Accountable.US said in a new report.

The sums paid to CRC Advisors by seven nonprofit groups have doubled since Leo came aboard as co-owner and chairman in 2020, according to the figures in the report, which marks the most recent and comprehensive accounting of the money flowing from a number of Leo-connected nonprofits to CRC.