Weird take - tens of thousands of people have switched parties because of the exposure to Veritas Stories in the past 13 years - but they never achieved anything?

I mean, can't the same be said for the No Agenda show? You've spent 1.5 decades exposing the bias in media and corruption through your deconstruction, but they still win in the end.

Guess we all should just throw in the towel and call it day, the bad guys win.

@SirPaulCouture or Judicial Watch, and PV, should make a hybrid organization.

@Fergus33 PV is dead if they don't reinstate James and the entire board resigns in disgrace. Every major whistleblower they have had is calling for that, they have lost ALL trust - lost half a million followers, and I bet donations looks even worse.

And to claim James was overspending because he was using Uber Black (pre-arranged) vs Uber (wow, you saved $10 on this fund raising trip that brings in $2M) while he makes low 6 figures (his peers average $2.75M) is telling.

@SirPaulCouture @Fergus33 Definitely not as simple as that but I know why that's the perception that's out there.

@dan @Fergus33 The board claims he spent at most $2.24M to raise $32M.

It is as simple as that. Dude was far from living a lavish lifestyle.

@SirPaulCouture @Fergus33 curious where you got the $2.4M from? Board hasn't released any info like that to my knowledge... 3rd party audit needs to be completed first.

I hope you appreciate I'm stuck in a no win situation just trying to do my best here.

@dan @Fergus33 if you do the math from their press release and use $999,999.99 for the "thousands of dollars" referenced (the literal maximum that could be referred to as "thousands") and also use $999,999.99 for the "hundreds of other" which from the claims are both EXTREMEMLY high estimates, you get a total of $2.24M over the past 18 months. During those 18 months, he brought in $32M+ in donations.

@SirPaulCouture @Fergus33 I see... Not sure that's going to be a realistic number or not. I can't comment because I don't know and will wait for results of the audit. If it were $2.4M, it would need to be disclosed as an excess benefit on the Form 990 and be repaid to the organization under IRS rules as I understand them... Again, I'm not on the board, I have no vote, I'm just trying to do the right thing.

@dan @Fergus33 the point I am making is that is the MOST that it could be.

And NONE of the examples they have are personal expenses - they were directly related to fund raising.

The IRS doesn't get to claim you stole money because a fund raiser failed or did not make as much as expected.

Most insurance carriers won't allow you to cover your camera and lights and use random ride shares to secure them. etc.

@SirPaulCouture @Fergus33 and those are just examples you're using for totals. That was a non exhaustive list of examples only. Audit will show the detail which I expect to take months but will see...