According to the latest episode of the Drill Down podcast, Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, are allegedly involved in questionable financial dealings.
Adam Andrzejewski, the President of OpenTheBooks.com, disclosed to co-hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers that Jennifer Newsom was paid $1.5 million over a decade to run a non-profit film and school curriculum organization.
The non-profit licenses its films to 5,000 schools across the United States, which pay licensing fees to the organization. However, the films are produced by a for-profit production company she owns, which made $1.6 million over the last decade. This means that the Newsoms have reportedly made $3 million from the arrangement.
Furthermore, Governor Newsom himself stars in many of Jennifer Newsom's films, encouraging people to vote for politicians like Newsom and support his policies.
The movie also urges students to get involved, and when they do, they can join the Newsoms' 501(c)(4) advocacy organization called the "California Partners Project."
This organization was created to drive Jennifer Newsom's public policy agenda as the "first partner" of the state of California. The Newsoms' "first partner" office, established by Gavin Newsom, now has nine staffers and a million-dollar budget.
Andrzejewski claims that the Newsoms established the 501(c)(4) for more funding, lobbying power, and a way to get students active.
Open The Books, which Andrzejewski heads, filed 55,000 Freedom of Information Act requests last year, exposing $8 trillion worth of federal, state, and local spending to public scrutiny. The group recently told the ties between Governor Newsom and Silicon Valley Bank.
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