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The Secrets of Jay Sekulow
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Nov 02, 2005 12:54pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, November 2, 2005 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Posted 10:47 am | Printer Friendly
Jay Sekulow is not just another conservative lawyer. As the man who runs the American Center for Law and Justice, a religious right legal group started by TV preacher Pat Robertson, Sekulow has positioned himself as one of the most politically-connected lawyers in the conservative movement.
Indeed, Sekulow has become such an insider that he's one of a small handful of conservative activists who literally has helped advise the White House on judicial nominees, including Supreme Court vacancies.
But there's more to Sekulow than advising Rove and fighting for state-sponsored Ten Commandments displays. Tony Mauro wrote a devastating piece for the Legal Times this week explaining that Sekulow has hidden ethics difficulties that could undermine his career permanently.
But there is another side to Jay Sekulow, one that, until now, has been obscured from the public. It is the Jay Sekulow who, through the ACLJ and a string of interconnected nonprofit and for-profit entities, has built a financial empire that generates millions of dollars a year and supports a lavish lifestyle — complete with multiple homes, chauffeur-driven cars, and a private jet that he once used to ferry Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
That less-known side of Sekulow was revealed in several interviews with former associates of his and in hundreds of pages of court and tax documents reviewed by Legal Times. Critics say Sekulow's lifestyle is at odds with his role as the head of a charitable organization that solicits small donations for legal work in God's name. |
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