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ProPublica: Noem Took Cut of Political Donations

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In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career, tax records show.

In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement, the nonprofit routed funds to a personal company of Noem’s that had recently been established in Delaware. The payment totaled $80,000 that year, a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 government salary. Since the nonprofit is a so-called dark money group — one that’s not required to disclose the names of its donors — the original source of the money remains unknown.

Noem then failed to disclose the $80,000 payment to the public.​
 

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"She did not include the income from the dark money group on her disclosure form, which experts called a likely violation of federal ethics requirements."

Drain the Swamp!
 
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I had thought Noem being a small town girl with a foursquare gospel background would be far more grounded. But her unbridled passion for Trumpism seems to have bogged her down. A true farmgirl would never wear a 50k Rolex. She seems to just a be a slightly smarter version of Sarah Palin. Sad that my hopes were dashed with her. So many attracted to politics for the wrong reasons. A true public servant understands one has to go the extra mile not to be corrupt and pretentious. Sadly, there are so few of those and the public marches on with their drama queens on both sides.
 
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