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Thread ID: 20868 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2005-11-03
2005-11-03 01:32 | User Profile
Isn't this guy one of Crazy Pat's budies? A long article, An excerpt posted below.
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The Secrets of Jay Sekulow Tony Mauro Legal Times 11-01-2005
Just the week before, Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, had cheerfully predicted that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers had "turned the corner" and would never withdraw her name from consideration.
Now, a few hours after Miers proved him dead wrong, Sekulow sounded as upbeat as ever. "She did the noble thing," Sekulow told the million-plus people listening to his daily radio show on Christian stations last Thursday, adding, confidentially, "I saw this coming." The next nominee, he predicted, would be a sitting judge just as worthy of support as Miers.
It was vintage Sekulow: gliding over contradictions, pleased to be a player in nomination politics, and more than ready to play again. In recent weeks, Sekulow, the leading Supreme Court advocate of the Christian right, emerged as the steadiest and most visible of a dwindling number of social conservatives willing to support Miers. Because of that steadfast loyalty, he is likely to play a key role in campaigning for whoever replaces her.
"Jay has clearly succeeded in becoming closely linked to the Bush administration and has become a principal salesman for Bush nominees," says Elliot Mincberg, legal director of People For the American Way.
This is the public Jay Sekulow, the man who has become a familiar face on television in recent months and who has been a fixture in Washington legal circles as head of the ACLJ, an organization founded by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson in 1990.
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 Sekulows lifestyle is at odds with his role as the head of a charitable organization that solicits small donations for legal work in Gods name.
For example, in 2001 one of Sekulows nonprofit organizations paid a total of $2,374,833 to purchase two homes used primarily by Sekulow and his wife. The same nonprofit also subsidized a third home he uses in North Carolina.
At various times in recent years, Sekulows wife, brother, sister-in-law, and two sons have been on the boards or payrolls of organizations under his control or have received generous payments as contractors. Sekulows brother Gary is the chief financial officer of both nonprofit organizations that fund his activities, a fact that detractors say diminishes accountability for his spending.
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2005-11-03 02:38 | User Profile
BK,
Yep, that crazy Pat. [QUOTE]Robertson continues as unpaid president of the ACLJs board to this day and frequently invites Sekulow to appear on his "700 Club" show on the Christian Broadcasting Network.[/QUOTE] I read up to this point and then hung it up. [QUOTE] Sekulow, 49, has always been an oddity on the evangelical landscape. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Jewish parents, Sekulow still describes himself as a "Messianic Jew," meaning he believes Jesus Christ is the Messiah. He says his Jewish faith never caused him trouble among Christian evangelicals.[/QUOTE] Easy to see why he is with Robinson. [QUOTE] Another says: "Jay sends so many discordant signals. He talks about doing Gods work for his donors, and then he flies off in his plane to play golf."[/QUOTE] Maybe God is his golf partner. The snake handlers he's fleecing would no doubt believe that.
2005-11-03 08:41 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Blond Knight]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 Sekulows lifestyle is at odds with his role as the head of a charitable organization that solicits small donations for legal work in Gods name. [/QUOTE] Too bad, because there really is a bad need for opponents to the ACLU, and the ACLJ does do some good work. They'd do a lot more if they had some competent leadership.