Showing posts with label True the Vote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label True the Vote. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Even its creator now admits that ‘2000 Mules’ is discredited - The Washington Post

Since the movie was released and its numerous flaws became apparent to objective observers, True the Vote and D'Souza have engaged in multiple rounds of finger-pointing. When D'Souza's accompanying book was pulled from shelves and allegations about specific nonprofit groups stripped out, True the Vote denied that it had been involved in identifying those organizations. Now D'Souza notes that his analyses "operated in good faith and in reliance on True the Vote."…


Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Complaint: True the Vote Leaders Used Donations for Personal Gain — ProPublica

On Monday, the nonprofit watchdog group Campaign for Accountability called for an investigation into True the Vote, which has made repeated false claims about voter fraud in elections. The complaint said True the Vote may have violated state and federal law when the charity used donations to issue loans to Engelbrecht, its founder, and lucrative contracts to Gregg Phillips, a longtime director. The organization also failed to disclose the payments to insiders in its tax returns, including excessive legal bills paid to its general counsel at the time, who filed election-related lawsuits in four states, the complaint said.

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

True the Vote Sought Funds for a Ukraine Hospital That Never Materialized — ProPublica

The questions about The Freedom Hospital come as Engelbrecht and Phillips are facing new scrutiny over continued failed efforts to prove widespread fraud in the American election system. The pair have frequently profited handsomely from their election denial work, according to an investigation by Reveal that found loans issued to Engelbrecht and self-dealing contracts to nonprofit insiders…


Sunday, October 16, 2022

Arizona AG’s office asks feds to investigate conservative nonprofit True the Vote - POLITICO

Grigsby also flagged the nonprofit status of the organization, noting the "considerable sums of money" they had raised while alleging massive voter fraud and promises to provide law enforcement with the information — even as they remained unable to provide the information...


Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Another year, another high-profile voter-fraud summit — this time from True the Vote — goes bust - The Washington Post

…Then the group got lucky, convincing filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza that they had data showing a widespread effort to collect and cast ballots in swing states. The result was "2000 Mules," a movie that became a sensation on the right this year because it offered what had long been missing: apparent evidence of enough fraud to have affected the election results. 








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