Report: Mark Meadows' finances under microscope of the Jan. 6 committee

On Wednesday, Rolling Stone reported that it has learned the Jan. 6 committee is “quietly probing” the financial dealings of Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff. 

Meadows has been walking a rocky road since he abruptly stopped cooperating with the committee last year and triggered a criminal contempt referral to the Department of Justice. Though that referral wasn’t taken up by Attorney General Merrick Garland, scrutiny on Meadows remains. He is presently under investigation for voter fraud in at least three states including North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina after it was discovered in March that he registered to vote in states where he held no residential address.  

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And then there are those pesky donations. 

During its very first hearing, the committee’s senior investigative counsel, Amanda Wick, highlighted how the Trump campaign sent out email blasts—including up to just 30 minutes before the Capitol assault—asking for donations to support Trump’s many lawsuits baselessly alleging fraud in the 2020 election. 

But that fund, dubbed the Official Election Defense Fund, didn’t exist. Instead, the $250 million Trump racked up from donors by lying to them about the election results went flowing into other entities, like his very own Save America PAC. Funds that went to that PAC were then routed to a variety of Trump-backed or Trump-related think tanks like the America First Policy institute and the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI). Both groups received $1 million from the bogus legal defense fund propped up by Trump’s campaign

Meadows is a senior partner at CPI.