MO AG’s Office Subpoenas Records From Non-Profit That Doled out ‘Zucker Bucks’ – Opinion

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has launched an investigation into the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) seeking information and documents pertaining to a $350 million donation  from Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg — so-called “Zucker Bucks.”

CTCL is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization established in 2015.

Tiana Epps Johnson (ex-election administration director, New Organizing Institute) was the founder of CTCL. Whitney May is a former Durham County election official and contributed to the NOI voting information project. Donny Bridges used to be an election administration researcher at NOI.^[1]CTCL had three founding leaders as of May 2022.

The money from Zuckerberg was distributed  by CTCL to thousands of county and city election officials ostensibly to fund staffing and equipment to make elections safer during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Missouri Attorney General’s office confirms that, on Friday, they issued a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) (essentially, a subpoena) to CTCL requesting information and documentation which will assist in determining why it appears that a majority of this money went to Democratic strongholds and swing states and counties in particular. Was this an effort to drive turnout and influence the 2020 elections under the guise of “safety”?

Questions have understandably been raised by various election officials but it is believed that this is the first CID issued to CTCL in an effort to get to the bottom of this donation — why it was made, how it was used, and what effect it may have had on these elections.

Attorney General Schmitt’s Press Secretary Chris Nuelle provided the following statement to RedState:

“Eric Schmitt, Attorney General, has always been dedicated to protecting the integrity and fairness of elections. That’s why we sent this subpoena today, and we aren’t backing down – we’re going to continue to fight and get to the bottom of this.”