Anonymous gadfly raises an interesting question -- just how incompetent is lawyer Sarah Miller when she clearly has no idea what her attention-obsessed client, "Pastor Art" Pawlowski, is even up to?
Recent news coverage seems to suggest that Miller has little idea where her client is these days or what he's up to, and was unable to keep from him being arrested when he returned to Calgary from a whirlwind MAGA tour of the U.S. where he dispensed irresponsible and dangerous coronavirus propaganda.
More to the point, given that Pawlowski's sentencing hearing is yet to happen, one would think that the first thing a lawyer will advise her client to do is to lay low, keep his mouth shut and maybe try to not get publicly arrested for contempt -- something Miller appears to have failed at miserably.
You'd think that, for the duffel bag of cash Miller's being paid, she could do a better job.
Apparently not.
ABOUT "THE DEMOCRACY FUND" ... Yet another anonymous troublemaker raises another point about donations and legal fees and stuff like that, and I will definitely want someone with legal chops to weigh in here.
For months, Der Rebel has insisted that donations for Pastor Art's "legal fees" through The Democracy Fund are eligible for charitable tax receipts. However, read carefully the mandate of TDF here:
To advance and maintain substantive constitutional rights in Canada, through public education and strategic litigation seeking legal remedies for victims of constitutional rights abuses.
OK, so that looks like it covers legal fees but, as I mentioned earlier, it sure doesn't look like it covers expenses for Pastor Art's recent U.S. tour. More interestingly, it's not clear whether it covers either cost awards against Pastor Art, or fines levied against him by the Court.
That is, if Pastor Art continues acting like the contemptuous asshole that he is and keeps running up fines and cost awards, it's not at all clear that The Democracy Fund can cover those while continuing to issue charitable tax receipts (especially when Pastor Art appears to go out of his way to attract those expenses).
Would any lawyers like to weigh in here? If Pawlowski insists on giving both middle fingers to the Court day after day, and incurring fines and cost awards because of that, can The Democracy Fund cover all of that while still dispensing tax receipts?
Lines are open.
OH, MAN, IT JUST GOT BETTER. Check back later. Seriously. The Democracy Fund might have some serious 'splainin' to do to Canada Revenue Agency after all.
2 comments:
I think you're missing the bigger point. That Independent article claims that Pastor Art was in the U.S. for FOUR MONTHS!! And another news article says he returned to Calgary on a private charter jet. Who is paying for all this?
Who is footing the bill for four months of U.S. hotels and flights? Is that all coming out of "legal fees"? Because if that's what's paying for it, then that's fraud, plain and simple. (And if the donations paying for all that travel are tax deductible, then, hello, Canada Revenue Agency.)
And it's not like those people are even TRYING to keep a lid on Pastor Art's expenses. Apart from those four months on tour, Pastor Art keeps getting himself in trouble, requiring constant court hearings and arrests and his lawyer's jumping into action, and all of that costs money. Lots of money.
Rebel News keeps complaining about Pastor Art's mounting legal fees. But they're doing absolutely nothing to keep them under control.
Just to repeat something I noted a few weeks ago:
1) Ezra's usual begging bowls are usually relative small (a few thousand bucks for a piece of equipment, airfare to London for a Tommy Robinson visit, etc.), and seldom hit their goals.
2) However, the current "fight the vaccine" campaign set a two million dollar target for Ezra's lawyers: and miraculously, within just a couple of weeks, he's raised over a million.
3) Republican strategists have acknowledged that they will be pouring big bucks into anti-vaccine campaigns approaching the midterms - it's the current flavor of Trumpian mock-populist fury.
Clearly the Rebel's campaign is receiving a massive infusion of hard right money from somewhere, and it isn't the furious retirees or pot bellied, red capped gamers in their mommies' basements. Given the Rebel's links with the David Horowitz Freedom Centre, and the number of Shillman Fellowships their contributor have enjoyed in the past, one can only speculate.
But one does look forward to the end of this tax year, when the Rebel's "partner", the mysterious "Democracy Fund", files their tax documents and discloses funding sources.
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