Notorious liberal activist billionaire George Soros may have some competition.
Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss has funneled over a billion dollars to numerous left-wing political groups in the United States through his Wyss Foundation and Berger Action Fund, drawing questions as to the legality of a foreign citizen donating to American political campaigns.
“He is not as well known as wealthy liberal patrons like George Soros or Tom Steyer. His political activism is channeled through a daisy chain of opaque organizations that mask the ultimate recipients of his money,” The New York Times reported May 3, but “Wyss has quietly become one of the most important donors to left-leaning advocacy groups and an increasingly influential force among Democrats.”s
Among the biggest recipients of Wyss’ “dark money” is National Redistricting Action Fund, a group run by former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder that seeks to control the drawing of congressional districts in order to impose liberal majorities on Congress.
“Wyss’s dark money contributions made up 40 percent of the gerrymandering group’s total funding in 2018, and a quarter of its funding the following year, making Wyss one of the organization’s largest donors,” The Washington Free Beacon reports.
Wyss also donated $135 million to the liberal “Sixteen Thirty Fund,” which then funneled $300,000 to the “Lincoln Project” to run election ads against President Donald Trump.
It’s generally illegal for foreign citizens to donate to American political groups and while Wyss resides in Wyoming it’s not clear if he’s a legal citizen or even legal resident.
Wyss has stated in the past he only carries a Swiss passport and does not even hold a U.S. green card. Getting U.S. citizenship is generally a very long process, even for the wealthy and well-connected.
Wyss als paid millions to a woman who accused him of sexual assault, The Daily Caller reports.
“A former employee of the HJW Foundation accused Wyss of sexually assaulting her in a New Jersey hotel in 2011, the Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported,” The Daily Caller reports. “The HJW Foundation merged with the Wyss Foundation in 2013. Wyss entered into a $1.5 million settlement with the employee in 2013 but later sued her for violating a confidentiality agreement.”
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Michael Brigham
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SCOTUS recently ‘decided’ that corporations can put as much money as they want to a ‘candidate’. There is not one AMERICAN on the SCOTUS, almost all are CATHOLIC traitors. The Vatican is the biggest Corporation on earth…. The only difference between Muslim and CATHOLIC “C” is the continent they destroy.
Can you use the word CATHOLIC “C” traitor?
Fork You Alfie!
You got a hell of a lot of nerve. Religious groups INCLUDING Catholics are as generous and charitable for the needy as all other groups combined. Sounds like you need a one way ticket and you can go preach your hate in a third world country ….. if they’ll have you.
to both wild and dinkus: maybe he (alfie) is refering to the current pope, who is a bit off christianity…?
globalist puppet, chester the molester dope francis .
The current pope is only interested in his millionaire friends and not the many millions of Catholics in this world! I hold absolutely no respect for him!
There is not one American on the SCOTUS. Almost all are CATHOLIC “C” traitors.
The VATICAN is the biggest, most corrupt, destroyer of nations on earth. Of course, all the ‘candidates’ are CATHOLIC “C” traitors. Vote for ANY CATHOLIC and the Constitution is dust.
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You sound dangerous. Have you checked recently to see what condition your condition is in? Get some help ….. or a lobotomy.
georgie boy beaten by the ugly stick student of hitler traitor to his ethnic background putting jews in prison camps and taking their belongings……..someone ought to make him leave this country of maybe GOD should decided he has been here long enough……the devil is waiting for him in the fires of hell. this is an evil and gross man……..he needs to go away.
Does anybody still think this isn’t the “end times?” There is nowhere else that corruption hasn’t reached its tentacles out and strangled the life out of freedom. It is free to loot and pillage every aspect of what is good. If they pass the “for the people” act which should be called “for the corrupt,” we can give up hope for anything that remotely resembles America to survive. The fact that foreign dark money is allowed in a United State election tells us we are toast.
if they pass the “for the corrupt,” we’ll be closer to a civil war, which is coming.
LISTEN UP….GEORGE SOROS Can JUMP into a LAKE with CR OCODILES and TAKE His DIRTY BLOOD MONEY with HIM. From SamuraiQueen. 😄😄😄
So rosse go to space and don’t come back.
I can’t pronounce this guy’s name. Hands yorge thinks he is wise maybe! Probably has a handle on the Riches stored in Switzerland. Especially those that went there during WWII.
Oh great! We are letting another asshole millionaire help in taking this country down! I am fed up with this whole business of people who want to destroy this country and our way of life.