Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Harlan Crow’s Minions Keeping Your Rent High
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/harlan-crow-nmhc

* Update: single-page: https://files.persagen.com/01/harlan_crow-mhnc-2023-07-21.txt

Republican mega-donor/Nazi memorabilia collector enjoyed grossly unethical friendship w. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

* took Thomas on luxury vacations
* paid for Thomas’ grandnephew’s tuition
* bankrolled Ginni Thomas’ political projects
* bought real estate properties f. Thomas’ family incl. his mother’s house
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#HarlanCrow #ClarenceThomas #DefundBillionaires #NMHC

Harlan Crow’s Minions Are Keeping Your Rent High | Revolving Door Project

The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) – a landlord lobby group led by Crow’s right-hand man – has spent millions to kill tenant protections and rent regulation.

Revolving Door Project
Jul 21, 2023 at 4:48pmWeb
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In return Thomas often ruled in Crow’s favor in cases where Crow’s business interests came before SCOTUS

Revolving Door Project is tracking Harlan Crow’s ties to the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC), a developer/corporate landlord lobbying group led by Crow Holdings executive Ken Valach.

NMHC is a landlord lobbying group that representing ~2,000 abusive private equity firms, developers, banks, & real estate software companies.

#HarlanCrow #CrowHoldings #KenValach #SCOTUS

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Harlan Crow's Minions Are Keeping Your Rent High
New RDP project will track ties between Thomas benefactor’s real estate empire and landlord lobby group NMHC
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/harlan-crow-s-minions-are-keeping-your-rent-high

https://persagen.com > search:
"harlan crow" AND housing
"harlan crow" AND valach
"harlan crow" AND thomas

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110580597018243738
Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow
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Harlan Crow's Minions Are Keeping Your Rent High

New RDP project will track ties between Thomas benefactor’s real estate empire and landlord lobby group NMHC

Common Dreams
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https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110498162127448374
Clarence Thomas’ Billionaire Benefactor Tied To SCOTUS Bombshell
The Supreme Court just gutted wetland protections after lobbying by Harlan Crow’s business interests
https://www.levernews.com/clarence-thomas-billionaire-benefactor-is-grateful-for-latest-scotus-bombshell

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110651107706531719
No Labels has taken money from Republican billionaire megadonor Harlan Crow

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110583336756977728
Everyone here is part of Leo’s network. Harlan Crow is a big Republican donor but also a big Federalist Society donor. So is Paul Singer.

Clarence Thomas’ Billionaire Benefactor Tied To SCOTUS Bombshell

The Supreme Court just gutted wetland protections after lobbying by Harlan Crow’s business interests.

The Lever
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https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110453620908278083
Travel Rewards: What the Crow Family May Have Bought by Hosting Those Luxury Trips for Justice Thomas
https://americansfortaxfairness.org/issue/travel-rewards-crow-family-may-bought-hosting-luxury-trips-justice-thomas

https://persagen.com/docs/sackett_vinc_environmental_protection_agency_2023.html
Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency 2023

Billionaire Harlan Crow's firm advocated for rolling back the very wetland protections the Supreme Court just gutted.
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TRAVEL REWARDS: WHAT THE CROW FAMILY MAY HAVE BOUGHT BY HOSTING THOSE LUXURY TRIPS FOR JUSTICE THOMAS - Americans For Tax Fairness

New Information Shows His Vote for Citizens United Allowed the Billionaire Clan To Pump Tens of Millions of Dollars More Into Political Campaigns WASHINGTON – A nearly nine-fold increase in their ability to influence federal elections is one benefit the billionaire Crow family might ascribe to the years of luxurious hospitality they’ve provided to Supreme …

Americans For Tax Fairness
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As HuffPost reported in 2023-04 (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-business-interests_n_64494a12e4b0d840388c2935), a trade group chaired by Ken Valach - currently the CEO of the development platform of Crow Holdings - was directly involved in the Sackett case (Sackett v. EPA II, 2023), pouring cold water over Clarence Thomas' claim that Harlan Crow's gifts weren't a conflict of interest because the billionaire had no business before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Clarence Thomas Said His Billionaire Friend Didn’t Come Before The Court — But His Business Interests Did

A real estate trade group now chaired by Crow Holdings’ CEO has filed briefs in Supreme Court cases relevant to Harlan Crow's financial interests.

HuffPost
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The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) - a trade group that counts three of Harlan Crow's companies as dues-paying members - filed an amicus brief in the case, calling for the rollback of regulations they viewed as stifling housing construction.

The NMHC has been a long-standing opponent of more expansive interpretations of the definition of "waters of the United States" (WOTUS) covered by the Clean Water Act, ...

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.. which among other things can hinder, delay, and or even outright block developers' plans if they might have an adverse impact on surrounding wetlands and other local water bodies.

But this already serious conflict of interest goes even deeper.

The NMHC, whose board of directors Ken Valach has served on since 2015, is a founding member of the Waters Advocacy Coalition (WAC), ...

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... an alliance of various corporate trade groups dedicated to weakening the WOTUS definition, whose members span industries ranging from fossil fuels and mining to farming and real estate.

Since 2019 alone, the WAC has spent a total of $260,000 lobbying on one thing and one thing only: "waters of U.S. rulemaking," or, as it put it in one filing, "federal legislative and administrative developments concerning the scope of federal regulatory authority over water bodies."
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... Not surprisingly, the Waters Advocacy Coalition wasted little time in, by its own words, "applauding" the Sackett ruling (Sackett v. EPA II, 2023) the day it was announced for halting "decades of attempts to expand the federal government's power over private land."
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@persagen Enough is enough.
We need a temporary HALT to SCOTUS hearing cases until this is all resolved!
Make it so!