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303694/IRS990
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Below is their 990 IRS filing – TAX EXEMPT – lookit the Independent
ontractors: RING ANY BELLS?????
Section B. Independent Contractors
1
Complete this table for your five highest compensated independent contractors that received more than $100,000 of compensation
from the organization. Report compensation for the calendar year ending with or within the organization’s tax year.
(A) (B) (C)
Name and business address Description of services Compensation
BEAN LLC RESEARCH CONSULTING 3,323,924
12 MELOMBE PLACE
LONDON,NW1 6JJ
UK
ZUCKERMAN SPAEDER LLP LEGAL FEES 148,231
efile Public Visual Render ObjectId: 201843199349303694 - Submission: 2018-11-15 TIN: 81-
5223488
Form 990
Department of the TreasuryInternal Revenue Service
Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax
Under section 501(c), 527, or 4947(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code (except private
foundations)
Do not enter social security numbers on this form as it may be made public.
Information about Form 990 and its instructions is at www.IRS.gov/form990.
OMB No. 1545-0047
2017
Open to Public Inspection
A For the 2017 calendar year, or tax year beginning 01-01-2017 , and ending 12-31-2017
BCheck if applicable: Address change Name change Initial return Final return/terminated Amended return Application
pending
CName of organization
THE DEMOCRACY INTEGRITY PROJECT
Doing business as
Number and street (or P.O. box if mail is not delivered to street address)
1360 BEVERLEY ROAD NO 300
Room/suite
City or town, state or province, country, and ZIP or foreign postal code
MCLEAN, VA22101
D Employer identification number
81-5223488
E Telephone number
(202) 810-0126
G Gross receipts $ 9,036,836
F Name and address of principal officer:
DANIEL J JONES
1360 BEVERLEY ROAD 300
MCLEAN,VA22101
I
subordinates? Yes No
H(b)
Are all subordinates
included?
Yes No
If "No," attach a list. (see instructions)
H(c)
Group exemption number
2
Check this box
3 Number of voting members of the governing body (Part VI, line 1a) . . . . . . . . 3 3
4 Number of independent voting members of the governing body (Part VI, line 1b) . . . . . 4 2
5 Total number of individuals employed in calendar year 2017 (Part V, line 2a) . . . . . . 5 3
6 Total number of volunteers (estimate if necessary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 0
7a Total unrelated business revenue from Part VIII, column (C), line 12 . . . . . . . . 7a 0
b Net unrelated business taxable income from Form 990-T, line 34 . . . . . . . . . 0
7b
Prior Year Current Year
8 Contributions and grants (Part VIII, line 1h) . . . . . . . . . 7,005,649
9 Program service revenue (Part VIII, line 2g) . . . . . . . . . 0
10 Investment income (Part VIII, column (A), lines 3, 4, and 7d ) . . . . 42,594
11 Other revenue (Part VIII, column (A), lines 5, 6d, 8c, 9c, 10c, and 11e) 0
12 Total revenue—add lines 8 through 11 (must equal Part VIII, column (A), line 12) 7,048,243
13 Grants and similar amounts paid (Part IX, column (A), lines 1–3 ). . . 0
14 Benefits paid to or for members (Part IX, column (A), line 4). . . . . 0
15 Salaries, other compensation, employee benefits (Part IX, column (A), lines 5–10) 493,014
16a Professional fundraising fees (Part IX, column (A), line 11e) . . . . . 0
b Total fundraising expenses (Part IX, column (D), line 25) 52,957
17 Other expenses (Part IX, column (A), lines 11a–11d, 11f–24e). . . . 4,943,293
18 Total expenses. Add lines 13–17 (must equal Part IX, column (A), line 25) 5,436,307
19 Revenue less expenses. Subtract line 18 from line 12. . . . . . . 1,611,936
2018-11-15
Sign Here Signature of officer Date
Check if
self-employed
PTIN
P00943320
Firm's name
FRANK & COMPANY PC
Firm's EIN 54-1156733
Firm's address
1360 BEVERLY ROAD SUITE 300
MCLEAN, VA22101
Phone no. (703) 821-0702
May the IRS discuss this return with the preparer shown above? (see instructions) . . . . . . . . . . Yes
No
For Paperwork Reduction Act Notice, see the separate instructions.
Cat. No. 11282Y Form 990 (2017)
Page 2
1
Briefly describe the organization’s mission: THE PURPOSE OF THE DEMOCRACY INTEGRITY PROJECT IS TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY
IN THE UNITED STATES AND AROUND THE WORLD.
2
Did the organization undertake any significant program services during the year which were not listed on
services? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes
No
If "Yes," describe these changes on Schedule O.
4
Describe the organization’s program service accomplishments for each of its three largest program services, as measured by
expenses. Section 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations are required to report the amount of grants and allocations to others, the
total expenses, and revenue, if any, for each program service reported.
4a (Code: ) (Expenses $ 2,557,983 including grants of $ ) (Revenue $ )
RESEARCH - THE ORGANIZATION SEEKS TO PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS AROUND THE WORLD PRIMARILY BY ENGAGING AND MANAGING A NETWORK
OF EXPERIENCED ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS WHO WORK TO UNCOVER DETAILS, THROUGH FIELD RESEARCH AND DATA ANALYSIS, OF EFFORTS BY FOREIGN ACTORS,
INCLUDING FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, TO INTERFERE IN DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS.
Section A. Officers, Directors, Trustees, Key Employees, and Highest Compensated Employees
1a Complete this table for all persons required to be listed. Report compensation for the calendar year ending with or within the
organization’s tax year.
List all of the organization’s current officers, directors, trustees (whether individuals or organizations), regardless of amount
of compensation. Enter -0- in columns (D), (E), and (F) if no compensation was paid.
List all of the organization’s current key employees, if any. See instructions for definition of "key employee."
List the organization’s five current highest compensated employees (other than an officer, director, trustee or key employee)
who received reportable compensation (Box 5 of Form W-2 and/or Box 7 of Form 1099-MISC) of more than $100,000 from the
organization and any related organizations.
List all of the organization’s former officers, key employees, or highest compensated employees who received more than
$100,000
of reportable compensation from the organization and any related organizations.
List all of the organization’s former directors or trustees that received, in the capacity as a former director or trustee of the
organization, more than $10,000 of reportable compensation from the organization and any related organizations.
List persons in the following order: individual trustees or directors; institutional trustees; officers; key employees; highest
compensated employees; and former such persons.
Check this box if neither the organization nor any related organization compensated any current officer, director, or trustee.
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F)
Name and Title Average Position (do not check more than Reportable Reportable Estimated
hours per one box, unless person is both an compensation compensation amount of other
week (list officer and a director/trustee) from the from related compensation
any hours for organization organizations from the
related (W- 2/1099- (W- 2/1099- organization
organizations MISC) MISC) and related
below dotted organizations
line)
1b Sub-Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
c Total from continuation sheets to Part VII, Section A. . . .
d Total (add lines 1b and 1c). . . . . . . . . . . 381,263 0 0
2
Total number of individuals (including but not limited to those listed above) who received more than $100,000 of reportable
compensation from the organization 1
Yes
No
3
Did the organization list any former officer, director or trustee, key employee, or highest compensated employee on line 1a? If
"Yes," complete Schedule J for such individual . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3
No
4
For any individual listed on line 1a, is the sum of reportable compensation and other compensation from the organization and
related organizations greater than $150,000? If "Yes," complete Schedule J for such
individual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4
Yes
5
Did any person listed on line 1a receive or accrue compensation from any unrelated organization or individual for services rendered
to the organization? If "Yes," complete Schedule J for such person . . . . . . . .
5
No
Section B. Independent Contractors
1
Complete this table for your five highest compensated independent contractors that received more than $100,000 of compensation
from the organization. Report compensation for the calendar year ending with or within the organization’s tax year.
(A) (B) (C)
Name and business address Description of services Compensation
BEAN LLC RESEARCH CONSULTING 3,323,924
12 MELOMBE PLACE
LONDON,NW1 6JJ
UK
ZUCKERMAN SPAEDER LLP LEGAL FEES 148,231
Business Code
2a
5 Royalties. . . . . . . . . . .
6a Gross rents
b Less: rental expenses
c Rental income or (loss)
d Net rental income or (loss). . . . . .
(ii) Other (i) Securities
Pension plan accruals and contributions (include section 401(k) and 403(b)
8
employer contributions) . . . .
9 Other employee benefits . . . . . . .
10 Payroll taxes . . . . . . . . . . . 21,225 19,103 1,061 1,061
d Lobbying . . . . . . . . . . .
e Professional fundraising services. See Part IV, line 17
f Investment management fees . . . . . . 2,056 1,953 103
Other (If line 11g amount exceeds 10% of line 25, column (A) amount, list
g
line 11g expenses on Schedule O) 4,389,986 4,389,986
20 Interest . . . . . . . . . . .
21 Payments to affiliates . . . . . . .
22 Depreciation, depletion, and amortization . .
23 Insurance . . . 9,416 9,416
a
b
c
d
e All other expenses
25 Total functional expenses. Add lines 1 through 24e 5,436,307 5,115,966 267,384 52,957
Joint costs. Complete this line only if the organization reported in column
(B) joint costs from a combined educational campaign and fundraising
26
solicitation. Check here if following SOP 98-2 (ASC 958-720).
Form 990 (2017)
Page 11
(A) (B)
Beginning of year End of year
1 Cash–non-interest-bearing . . . . . . . . 0 1 106,526
2 Savings and temporary cash investments . . . . . . . . . 0 2 1,331,187
3 Pledges and grants receivable, net . . . . . . 3
4 Accounts receivable, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Loans and other receivables from current and former officers, directors, trustees, key employees, and
5 highest compensated employees. Complete Part II of Schedule L
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
5
Loans and other receivables from other disqualified persons (as defined under section 4958(f)(1)),
persons described in section 4958(c)(3)(B), and contributing employers and sponsoring
6
organizations of section 501(c)(9) voluntary employees' beneficiary organizations (see instructions)
Complete Part II of Schedule L . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6
7 Notes and loans receivable, net . . . . 0 7 150,000
8 Inventories for sale or use . . . . . . . . 8
9 Prepaid expenses and deferred charges . . . . . . 9
Organizations that follow SFAS 117 (ASC 958), check here and complete lines 27
through 29, and lines 33 and 34.
27 Unrestricted net assets 27
28 Temporarily restricted net assets . . . . . . . . . . . 28
29 Permanently restricted net assets 29
Organizations that do not follow SFAS 117 (ASC 958), check here and complete lines
30 through 34.
30 Capital stock or trust principal, or current funds . . . . . 0 30 0
31 Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building or equipment fund . . . 0 31 0
32 Retained earnings, endowment, accumulated income, or other funds 0 32 1,611,936
33 Total net assets or fund balances . . . . . . . . . . . 0 33 1,611,936
0 34 1,618,839
Form 990 (2017)
Page 12
1
Total revenue (must equal Part VIII, column (A), line 12) . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
7,048,243
2
Total expenses (must equal Part IX, column (A), line 25) . . . . . . . . . . . .
2
5,436,307
3
Revenue less expenses. Subtract line 2 from line 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3
1,611,936
4
Net assets or fund balances at beginning of year (must equal Part X, line 33, column (A)) . .
4
0
5
Net unrealized gains (losses) on investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5
6
Donated services and use of facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6
7
Investment expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7
8
Prior period adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8
9
Other changes in net assets or fund balances (explain in Schedule O) . . . . . . . .
9
0
10
Net assets or fund balances at end of year. Combine lines 3 through 9 (must equal Part X, line 33, column (B))
10
1,611,936
Part XII
Financial Statements and Reporting
Check if Schedule O contains a response or note to any line in this Part XII . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Yes
No
1
Accounting method used to prepare the Form 990: Cash Accrual Other
If the organization changed its method of accounting from a prior year or checked "Other," explain in
Schedule O.
2a
Were the organization’s financial statements compiled or reviewed by an independent accountant?
2a
No
If ‘Yes,’ check a box below to indicate whether the financial statements for the year were compiled or reviewed on a separate basis,
consolidated basis, or both:
Software ID:
Software Version:
Form 990, Special Condition Description:
Special Condition Description
read:https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/13/house-papers-john-podesta-
met-former-senate-aide-c/
The ex-aide is Daniel Jones, who in 2017 formed the secretive
nonprofit The Democracy Integrity Project.
From Influence Watch or something…just a sec…herfe
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/democracy-integrity-project/
In 2017, TDIP received slightly more than $7 million in donations. While it does not
disclose its donors, a spokesperson for George Soros has confirmed that the left-wing
financier has donated at least $1 million to the organization. [19][20] IRS filings also show
that TDIP has also received more than $2 million from the Fund for a Better Future
(FBF), a left-of-center foundation headquartered in Silicon Valley. [21] The donation to
TDIP was the second-largest that FBF made in 2017, behind only a $3.9 million
donation to left-wing advocacy group Priorities USA.
For the project, Mr. Jones hired Fusion GPS, the Clinton campaign’s opposition research
firm.
During the election, Fusion co-founder Glenn Simpson took money from the Clinton campaign
and the Democratic Party and retained Christopher Steele in June 2016. A former British
intelligence officer, Mr. Steele went on to compile a dossier filled with felony allegations against
Mr. Trump and aides that turned out to be bogus. Mr. Jones also hired Mr. Steele.
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence’s final Russia election report revealed
that Mr. Jones met with the FBI in March 2017, a month after he met with Mr. Podesta. He
went to the FBI to brief them on his Trump findings and disclosed he had raised $50 million
from Democratic donors to investigate the president and Russia.
said seven to 10 “wealthy donors,” primarily in New York and California, provided money to
“continue exposing Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Mr. Jones’
plan was to share with Congress and the news media,” an FBI report said.
Last week, the House committee released more than 50 witness transcripts, including Mr.
Podesta’s, from its 2017-2018 Russia investigation when Republicans, headed by Rep. Devin
Nunes of California, were in control. Their report said there was no evidence of a Trump-Russia
conspiracy. Special counsel Robert Mueller in March 2019 said his team failed to establish there
was such a conspiracy.
As a witness, Mr. Podesta appeared twice, in the summer and late 2017. During his later
testimony, Republicans asked Mr. Podesta to detail his interactions with Fusion GPS. In the
campaign, Fusion had introduced Mr. Steele to a number of Washington reporters to persuade
them to write of his allegations of an enormous Trump-Russia conspiracy.
A month after the Steele dossier was posted in full by BuzzFeed in January 2017, Mr. Podesta
met with Mr. Simpson, Mr. Jones and Peter Fritsch, Fusion’s other co-founder.
WHOIS for it: (Also incldes the PennProject, another of the Feinstein Aide’s beauties~
Mr. Jones was a top aide to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, on the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence.
What exactly the four anti-Trump operatives discussed that day is not revealed in the transcript.
But in the Simpson-Fritsch book “Crime in Progress,” they say they reached out to Mr. Podesta
to help raise money. They and Mr. Jones agreed to form the nonprofit Democracy Integrity
Project.
While they billed the group as fighting Russian interference in U.S. democracy, Republicans say
the group’s real target was always Mr. Trump.
Mr. Simpson and Mr. Fritsch wrote that big tech donors out West feared for their personal safety.
“With the Trump era not yet a month old, the fear of where he might take the country hung
palpably over session after session,” they wrote. “A few potential donors, including some big
names in the tech industry, begged off for reasons of personal safety.”
Republicans also note that the Simpson-Fritsch team promoted the dossier, one of the most
discredited political documents ever created. They spread it to Congress, the news media and the
FBI. Federal agents used the dossier’s inaccurate claims to win judges’ approval for four
wiretaps. Mr. Steele’s main dossier source told the FBI he was just repeating Kremlin gossip.
In the three years since he met with the FBI, it is unclear what Mr. Jones has turned up.
It is known that Mr. Jones had a hand in at least one anti-Trump story that appeared in the New
Yorker in October 2018.
The subject was one that had already gone around the block: Alfa Bank, Moscow’s largest and
owned by Vladimir Putin associates, and the Trump Organization, supposedly maintained a
secret line of communication via a dedicated computer server. The story’s prime promoter:
Glenn Simpson.
Slate.com ran the first pre-election Alfa story on Oct. 31 under the headline, “Was a Trump
Server Communicating with Russia?”
Two years later, the same allegation appeared in The New Yorker: “Was There a Connection
Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?”
Mr. Jones and his assemblage of secretive cyber experts were prime sources for the story, which
asked more questions than it answered.
“None of the independent experts I spoke to could be certain of what Alfa Bank and the Trump
Organization were doing,” The New Yorker story reads. “Some of them cautioned that it was
impossible even to guess at every way that an e-mail system might malfunction.”
A Trump Organization official told The Washington Times in 2017 that the root of suspicion lay
with a cyber trail to a marketing spam dispenser outside Philadelphia. The source said that Alfa
employees likely stayed at Trump lodgings and thus were included in a database of email
promotion lists.
The New Yorker article concludes: “The enigma, for now, remains an enigma. The only people
likely to finally resolve the question of Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization are federal
investigators.”
More than a year before The New Yorker story ran, the FBI concluded in February 2017 that
there was no Alfa-Trump computer hook-up, according to a Justice Department inspector
general’s report.
WHOIS:
The article says that Jones started it in 2017, I have xzero evidence
of that tho.
Funding
In 2017, TDIP received slightly more than $7 million in donations. While it does not
disclose its donors, a spokesperson for George Soros has confirmed that the left-wing
financier has donated at least $1 million to the organization. [19][20] IRS filings also show
that TDIP has also received more than $2 million from the Fund for a Better Future
(FBF), a left-of-center foundation headquartered in Silicon Valley. [21] The donation to
TDIP was the second-largest that FBF made in 2017, behind only a $3.9 million
donation to left-wing advocacy group Priorities USA.
TREASURE TROVE:
References
1. Polantz, Katelyn. “Steele Says He Used Unverified Information to Support Details about Web
Company in Dossier.” CNN. March 16, 2019. Accessed May 23, 2019.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/16/politics/steele-information-dossier/index.html. ^
2. Grassley, Charles E. “Letter from Sen. Charles Grassley to Sen. Christopher Coons.” United
States Senate. May 29, 2018. Accessed May 23, 2019.
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-05-29%20CEG%20to%20Coons
%20(Trump%20Jr%20Interview).pdf. ^
3. “Daniel J. Jones.” The Carr Center for Human Rights – Harvard Kennedy School. Accessed
May 14, 2019. https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/people/daniel-jones. ^
4. Democracy Integrity Project, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990),
2017, Part VII
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/815223488/20184319934930369
4/IRS990 ^
6. “Advance Democracy, Inc.” Internal Revenue Service. Accessed May 28, 2019.
https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/displayAll.do?
dispatchMethod=displayAllInfo&Id=10904680&ein=824277642. ^
7. Apuzzo, Matt, and Adam Satariano. “Russia Is Targeting Europe’s Elections. So Are Far-
Right Copycats.” The New York Times. May 12, 2019. Accessed May 23, 2019.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/world/europe/russian-propaganda-influence-
campaign-european-elections-far-right.html. ^
9. Ignatius, David. “The GOP’s Spin on the Russia Probe Doesn’t Add up.” The Washington
Post. September 25, 2018. Accessed May 23, 2019.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-gop-spin-on-the-russia-probe-reads-like-a-
noir-thriller–but-doesnt-add-up/2018/09/25/1b940c92-c0ca-11e8-be77-
516336a26305_story.html?utm_term=.32429e427000. ^
10. “Democracy Integrity Project, Form 990 – Nonprofit Explorer.” ProPublica. May 09, 2013.
Accessed May 28, 2019.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/815223488/20184319934930369
4/IRS990. ^
12. Gerstein, Josh, and Darren Samuelsohn. “Judge Won’t Dismiss Libel Suit against Fusion
GPS over Dossier.” POLITICO. January 17, 2019. Accessed May 28, 2019.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/17/libel-suit-fusion-gps-dossier-1106984. ^
13. Bertrand, Natasha. “Meet the Russia Specialist Who Worked on 2 of Fusion GPS’ Most
Controversial Projects.” Business Insider. January 14, 2018. Accessed May 28, 2019.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ed-baumgartner-fusion-gps-christopher-steele-russia-
projects-2018-1. ^
14. “People for EDWARD AUSTIN LIMITED (07188005).” EDWARD AUSTIN LIMITED –
Officers (free Information from Companies House). Accessed May 28, 2019.
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07188005/officers. ^
15. Barnett, Neil. “Russia’s Brexit Subversion.” The American Interest. November 09, 2017.
Accessed May 28, 2019. https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/11/09/russias-brexit-
subversion/. ^
16. “People for ISTOK ASSOCIATES LIMITED (07194978).” ISTOK ASSOCIATES LIMITED –
Officers (free Information from Companies House). Accessed May 28, 2019.
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07194978/officers. ^
17. “Midterms Disinformation Dashboard.” Disinfo 2018. November 06, 2018. Accessed May 28,
2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190204011452/https://www.disinfo2018.com/.
Archived at Archive.org. ^
18. Shane, Scott, and Alan Blinder. “Secret Experiment in Alabama Senate Race Imitated
Russian Tactics.” The New York Times. December 20, 2018. Accessed May 28, 2019.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jones-russia.html. ^
19. Vogel, Kenneth P., Scott Shane, and Patrick Kingsley. “How Vilification of George Soros
Moved From the Fringes to the Mainstream.” The New York Times. October 31, 2018.
Accessed May 28, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/us/politics/george-soros-
bombs-trump.html. ^
20. Solomon, John. “US Embassy Pressed Ukraine to Drop Probe of George Soros Group during
2016 Election.” TheHill. March 26, 2019. Accessed May 23, 2019.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/435906-us-embassy-pressed-ukraine-to-drop-
probe-of-george-soros-group-during-2016. ^
21. “2017 Form 990.” Fund for a Better Future. November 5, 2018. Accessed May 28, 2019.
http://fundforabetterfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/For-Public-Copy-Fund-for-a-
Better-Future-F990-12.31.17-00469030xA1C15.pdf. ^
WHOLE ARTICLE:
4 mins read
The Democracy Integrity Project (TDIP) is an advocacy group that purports to investigate
interference in American and international elections by hostile foreign powers. Its work is based
heavily on research and information generated by individuals and organizations behind the 2016
“Steele dossier” of unsubstantiated attacks on Donald Trump. [1][2]
Location: MCLEAN, VA
Tax ID: 81-5223488
Tax-Exempt Status: 501(c)(4)
Formation: 2017
Founder: Daniel J. Jones
It is one of three related organizations run by Daniel J. Jones, a former FBI analyst and staffer for
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and the Senate Intelligence Committee, who was instrumental in
publicizing information about the CIA’s detention and interrogation practices during the War on
Terror. [3]
Contents
Connected Organizations
Fusion GPS
Political Activities
o 2018 Midterm Elections
Funding
References
Related Profiles
Directors, Employees & Supporters
Donor Organizations
Vendors
Form 990 Information
Connected Organizations
Jones is TDIP’s president and CEO. The organization’s 2017 tax filings report that Jones worked
full-time for the nonprofit and was paid $381,263 in salary and other compensation for the year.
[4]
TDIP is apparently separate from Jones’s research firm Penn Quarter Group, which Jones also
runs. Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) alleged that Jones told the FBI that Penn Quarter “was
being funded by 7 to 10 wealthy donors located primarily in New York and California, who
provided approximately $50 million.” [5]
Jones’s third organization, the 501(c)(3) charity Advance Democracy, was founded in 2018 and
has not filed public tax returns as of June 2019. [6] It shares an address with TDIP and is also
actively engaged in purporting to combat Russian election interference: The New York Times
reported that it had “flagged a number of suspicious websites and social media accounts” to
authorities as promoting Russian interference in the 2019 European Parliament elections and
claimed right-wing groups were using the same tactics. [7]
Fusion GPS
The Democracy Integrity Project funds and promotes the work of people and organizations
linked to the discredited “Steele dossier” of unsubstantiated allegations about Donald Trump.
House Intelligence Committee Republicans released records of a discussion FBI agents had with
Jones, in which he disclosed that his for-profit company Penn Quarter Group had secured the
services of “Steele dossier” author Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS to “continue exposing
Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.” The FBI report said Jones planned
to send information generated by Steele and Fusion GPS to Congress and the media. [8] A
spokesperson for liberal financier George Soros confirmed to the Washington Post that the
liberal financier was aware that TDIP “used Fusion GPS as a contractor.” [9]
In its 2017 tax filings, Democracy Integrity Project reported paying more than $3.3 million –
roughly two thirds of its expenses for the entire year — to Fusion GPS parent company Bean
LLC. [10] It also paid more than $250,000 to a UK-based company where Christopher Steele is a
director, and almost $128,000 to Edward Austin LTD, a firm run by Steele dossier research
assistant Edward Baumgartner. [11][12][13][14] It also paid almost $150,000 to Istok Associates, a UK-
based firm run by Neil Barnett, who has claimed that Russia interfered with the UK’s Brexit
referendum. [15] [16]
Political Activities
During the 2018 midterm elections, TDIP partnered with cyber-security firm New Knowledge to
operate Disinfo 2018, a website that purported to track Russian efforts to interfere with the
elections through social media campaigns. [17] A New York Times investigation uncovered that
New Knowledge itself was using the similar social media disinformation tactics to depress
Republican turnout in the 2018 Alabama Senate special election, in a project funded in part by
LinkedIn co-founder and left-wing activist Reid Hoffman and operated with the assistance of
staff from left-of-center donor Investing in US. [18]
Funding
In 2017, TDIP received slightly more than $7 million in donations. While it does not disclose its
donors, a spokesperson for George Soros has confirmed that the left-wing financier has donated
at least $1 million to the organization. [19][20] IRS filings also show that TDIP has also received
more than $2 million from the Fund for a Better Future (FBF), a left-of-center foundation
headquartered in Silicon Valley. [21] The donation to TDIP was the second-largest that FBF made
in 2017, behind only a $3.9 million donation to left-wing advocacy group Priorities USA.
References
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The Democracy Integrity Project can be traced back at least to December 2016, when Simpson and
Jones made trips to California to raise money for their joint anti-Trump project.
May 09, 2020 · — Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 9, 2020 Indeed. This follows the new
documents released that show Obama’s involvement in the action against Flynn and now that it is being
called out as improper and without legitimate basis by Attorney General Bill Barr, Obama knows it’s
coming back around to him.