Sean Noble
Sean Noble is a former Congressional Aid and GOP consultant who served as the Chief of Staff for Congressman John Shadegg (R-AZ) for over a decade [1] before entering the nonprofit world in 2009 and becoming the Executive Director/President of Center to Protect Patient Rights(CPPR), a "dark money" 501(c)4 linked to the 2011 largest campaign finance money laundering scheme in California.[2] In his position as Chief of Staff to Congressman Shadegg in 2008, Noble earned $87,000 a year, and when he transitioned into his role in the nonprofit arena in 2009, bought a rowhouse on Capitol Hill and an eight-bedroom home in Utah, amounting to a value of over one million dollars.[3]
In addition to his role with CPPR and Presidency of Noble & Associates, Noble owns and serves as the President for DC London, Inc., a political consulting group based out of Arizona and D.C. which mysteriously uses the same founding address as American Commitment and Free Enterprise America. [4] Noble has also been identified as a member of the board for American Commitment, another dark money 501(c)4 organization. [4]
Ties to the Koch Brothers
Noble has been cited as a "Koch operative," who has participated in annual Koch donor meetings, speaking on issues such as voter attitudes and electoral mapping of upcoming elections.[5] In 2010, Noble sat on a panel with Americans for Prosperity director Art Pope, a former right-wing legislator and founder of right-wing John Locke Foundation, GOP operative Jim Ellis who was indicted in 2005 for an alleged scheme to use corporate political donations illegally to support candidates, and Ed Gillespie who co-founded Crossroads GPS with Karl Rove[5]
References
- ↑ DC London homepage, accessed June 3, 2013.
- ↑ Andy Kroll, Campaign Money Laundering Scheme revealed, kind of, Mother Jones, November 5, 2012.
- ↑ Alison Fitzgerald and Jonathan D. Salant, Secret Political Cash Moves Through Nonprofit Daisy Chain, BloombergBusinesweek, October 15, 2012.
- ↑ Jump up to: 4.0 4.1 Viveca Novak, Center to Protect Patients' Rights Gives Millions to outside Spenders in Elections, OpenSecrets.org, December 17, 2012.
- ↑ Jump up to: 5.0 5.1 Kenneth Vogel and Ben Smith, Koch Brothers' plan for 2012: raise $88 million, Politico, Accessed June 4, 2013.
