Leonard Leo seems to have financed the sale of Kellyanne Conway's polling firm—while she was promoting his preferred Supreme Court picks to Donald Trump.
the transaction, Leo seems to have used one of his dark money groups to finance the sale of the Polling Company, which Conway founded in 1995, to Creative Response Concepts Inc., a conservative public relations firm he now co-owns — at the same time she was promoting his preferred Supreme Court picks to. The deal may constitute a violation of ethics laws, experts told the outlet.
The timing of the deal was convenient for both Conway and Leo. Conway was facing pressure to unload the company because of her government post. But without her involvement in the firm, it was unclear how much it was actually worth, even as she valued it between one and five million dollars. According to Accountable.US, a watchdog group that alerted Politico to the financial records, Conway netted more than $2.5 million in the deal in the end.
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