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AZProgressive

(29,664 posts)
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 06:07 AM Yesterday

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

by Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski
June 30, 2025, 5 a.m. EDT

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. After President Donald Trump selected Noem to be his secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, she had to release a detailed accounting of her assets and sources of income from 2023 on. 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.

Experts told ProPublica it was troubling that Noem was personally taking money that came from political donors. In a filing, the group, a nonprofit called American Resolve Policy Fund, described the $80,000 as a payment for fundraising. The organization said Noem had brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars.

https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-political-donations-income-dark-money-dhs-ethics

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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations (Original Post) AZProgressive Yesterday OP
Drop in the bucket. She is stealing way more money than 80K. Irish_Dem Yesterday #1
Allright Johnny, can you tell us what S. Dakota has won in the Republican sweepstakes? Buddyzbuddy Yesterday #2
by another name AltairIV Yesterday #3
She is worthy of loathing, for sure TommyT139 Yesterday #4
Who said anything about gender? OldBaldy1701E Yesterday #7
Post removed Post removed Yesterday #5
Jamie Raskin oberle Yesterday #8
Bullshit. mzmolly 23 hrs ago #10
PROOF?? Yeah...didn't think so. Bengus81 23 hrs ago #11
You don't belong here edhopper 23 hrs ago #14
"a likely violation of federal ethics requirements." llmart Yesterday #6
Elect a criminal. Expect a crime wave. Gum Logger 22 hrs ago #16
"failed to disclose" - Oops, she just forgot, like Clarence Thomas! Beartracks 23 hrs ago #9
Forgot to mention it eh?? Mention it to the IRS? Bengus81 23 hrs ago #12
If this were an ethical Administration, Noem would be forced to immediately resign and she would be prosecuted. sop 23 hrs ago #13
The only 'crime' that can be committed in this administration..... 70sEraVet 22 hrs ago #15
If were to funnel money I collected for a charity into my personal account.... JohnnyRingo 22 hrs ago #17
The AG's office should begin an investigation! MineralMan 21 hrs ago #18
What can you expect? maccafan 20 hrs ago #19

Buddyzbuddy

(1,114 posts)
2. Allright Johnny, can you tell us what S. Dakota has won in the Republican sweepstakes?
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 06:37 AM
Yesterday

Fiscally responsible, riiight. And how much has she spent of American taxpayer money on commercials touting her idiot boss's failures, err I mean successes. And add in the bungled transportation costs to and from Gitmo. Yeah, they're gonna need more money. At the very least, she's gonna need more costumes.

I guess S.Dakota did win, they dumped her cheating ass on to the U.S. taxpayer. Well done S.D., well done.

AltairIV

(889 posts)
3. by another name
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 06:52 AM
Yesterday

Bought and paid for, she's really just an expensive street walker, although less dignified or honorable.

TommyT139

(1,572 posts)
4. She is worthy of loathing, for sure
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 07:02 AM
Yesterday

...but corruption like this isn't gendered.

Also, sex workers work for their pay, which she appears not to have done in this case.

OldBaldy1701E

(8,187 posts)
7. Who said anything about gender?
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 07:34 AM
Yesterday

You may not be aware but there are male 'street walkers' as well as female.

But, you are correct, they actually work for their income.

Response to AZProgressive (Original post)

llmart

(16,491 posts)
6. "a likely violation of federal ethics requirements."
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 07:31 AM
Yesterday

Ha! There is no such thing as federal ethics requirements in this administration. In fact, when choosing people for his administration we already see that having a history of lawlessness is actually a plus for the Criminal in Chief.

sop

(14,907 posts)
13. If this were an ethical Administration, Noem would be forced to immediately resign and she would be prosecuted.
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 08:55 AM
23 hrs ago

Since it's the Trump Misadministration, absolutely nothing will happen.

70sEraVet

(4,627 posts)
15. The only 'crime' that can be committed in this administration.....
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 09:04 AM
22 hrs ago

is to tell the truth. That's why Elon had to grovel back into Trump's MAGAsphere after blabbing about Trump's name being in the Epstein files -- if he wasn't uber-wealthy, he would have had to drink a cup of Putin-tea.

JohnnyRingo

(20,006 posts)
17. If were to funnel money I collected for a charity into my personal account....
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 09:07 AM
22 hrs ago

... would that be violation of ethics rules?

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