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Texas Observer
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Steven Monacelli

$1M Donation to Glenn Youngkin Linked to Associates of Austin Area Billionaire Investor

The paper trail for a mysterious one million dollar donation to Spirit of Virginia, the campaign committee affiliated with Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, leads to Texas associates of Austin-area billionaire investor Joe Liemandt. 

The seven-figure sum was donated by a company known as Future of Education LLC on May 26, one day after the company was incorporated in Delaware. Future of Education LLC does not have an active website, is not registered as a business in either Virginia or Texas, and does not appear to have any publicly listed contact information, according to searches of public records and the web. 

“When people form a shell LLC to hide a Texas donor and then the very next day make a million-dollar donation, we know they’re up to no good,” said Democratic House Minority Leader Don Scott Jr. “But the Virginia GOP has a history of taking donations from everyone from MAGA cronies to Nazi memorabilia collector Harlan Crow, so I’m not surprised.”

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