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Gov. Gavin Newsom had helped set up a state government agency for his wife and then a quasi-government non-profit to which he has directed millions of dollars which in turn helped promote yet another non-profit that puts millions of dollars in the pockets of the Newsoms.
That convoluted arrangement may explain why Newsom won’t turn over his tax returns.
Gov. Newsom promised to be the first California governor to release his tax returns every year, but media outlets have been grumbling that the last time he released a tax return was quite a few years ago when he was legally required to because he was running for reelection.
The questions got louder when he bought a $9 million house in addition to their $6 million house. The new 5,609 square foot estate comes with a spa, sculptures and Brazilian decks, and was bought from a member of the billionaire Pritzker clan, who have been one of Newsom’s major donors, and carries a $6.5 million mortgage with $600,000 in annual payments plus over $100,000 in property taxes. Some have been asking where all that money was coming from.
This may only be the tip of the iceberg considering that in 2019, the Newsoms had paid their household staff $288,000 alone. Assuming that the staffing costs have kept pace, California’s first family should be looking at very some very huge bills to maintain their outrageous lifestyle.
As of last fall, Newsom still hasn’t released a tax return. We do know that Newsom’s income shot up by $500,000 to $1.7 million in his first year in office. Back then, his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, was earning $151,000, through her ‘non-profit’, The Representation Project, which set out to teach children, especially boys, about the evils of gender roles and masculinity.
Since then Newsom’s gubernatorial salary grew from $210,000 to $242,295: a sizable raise, but even with his winery, restaurant and investments in a blind trust, it may not explain his spending.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, whose boutique causes include gender pay parity, however has been earning a higher salary than her husband as her non-profit took in $1.5 million in 2024 and 20% of that money went to her with $150,000 going directly to her as salary and another $150,000 going to her Girls Club Entertainment LLC for compensation as “Writer/Producer/Director”.
Girls Club Entertainment is listed as an “independent contractor” even though it also admits on the same tax filing that “Girls Club Entertainment LLC (GCE), a single member LLC, is owned by Jennifer Siebel Newsom” and also claims that she serves as the writer, producer and director of the various ‘documentaries’ that she licenses to her non-profit which then reimburses her.
Since the non-profit, originally titled ‘Miss Representation’ after the name of one of her ‘documentaries’, was set up to promote them, the arrangement appears to exist to allow her to benefit from non-profit funding while diverting a significant amount of the funds to herself.
An arrangement under which Newsom’s wife is simultaneously the CEO, board member and an ‘independent contractor’, who manages to cash out a significant percentage of its revenues, is legally dubious and risks falling under the IRS prohibitions against self-enrichment.
In 2023, Newsom’s non-profit took in $1 million and again paid out $300,000 or around a third to her. In 2020, it took in a little over $800,000 and she received the same amount or 37%. The Daily Mail estimated that her total came in at over $3.7 million in the decade.
Where was all that money coming from to what would normally be just another obscure organization? The answer in part is the government and government lobbyists and contractors. The ‘films’ made by Newsom’s wife have been shown in thousands of schools and received millions in revenues. More money has come through donations from major companies that do business with the state or are lobbying the state for some favorable treatment.
At the Project’s most recent ‘Flip the Script’ benefit, “celebrating the 10th anniversary of Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s groundbreaking film, Miss Representation”, the co-chair was Gavin Newsom’s sister, who runs their joint company, the other co-chairs were Lori Puccinelli Stern, the wife of the San Francisco Airport Commissioner, who heads a PR firm, and Joanna Rees, a venture capitalist who was appointed to a board by Newsom.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s outsized media presence is partly funded by California taxpayers.
After taking office, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he was creating an ‘Office of the First Partner’ for his wife led by two senior staffers with combined salaries of over a quarter of a million dollars. The most recent organizational chart for the office shows 7 staffers including two communications staffers just for Newsom’s wife: all with six figure salaries.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom co-created yet another non-profit for the Office of the First Partner, the California Partners Project: a 501(c)(4). The partisan non-profit, which regularly attacks Republicans, is directly linked to and promoted by the California governor’s site. Its board includes Becky Beland McNaught who was originally hired as the chief of staff at the Office of the First Partner. McNaught made opening remarks at a screening of one of her ‘films’ that was sponsored by the California Partners Project and the Representation Project.
The California Partners Project claims a semi-official status, stating that it operates “in partnership with the people of California.” What it does is promote Newsom’s wife and her non-profit which provides millions in income to Gov. Newsom and his wife.
In 2022, the LA Daily News reported that The California Partners Project had collected $1.6 million in ‘behested payments’ through Gov. Newsom. These are payments that were requested by Newsom on behalf of his wife’s organization. By 2023, the amount had risen to $2.4 million.
Newsom requested that one donor, an Indian tribe seeking to block a rival’s casino, donate $500,000, before intervening on its behalf. By 2025, the amount was up to $2 million.
Is Gov. Newsom pressuring and rewarding companies for donating to his wife’s non-profit and does that non-profit then help promote his wife’s other extremely profitable ‘non-profit’?
Other state agencies have also worked to promote Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s lucrative non-profit including the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls, in theory a non-partisan state agency, which pushed her ‘documentary’ Miss Representation.
Holly Martinez, the executive director of the Commission, switched to serving as the executive director of Mrs. Newsom’s Representation Project and then as her Chief of Staff in the Office of the First Partner, illustrating how government agencies, the paid non-profit and the First Lady’s office have become an interchangeable game of musical chairs all to promote one woman.
And her organization that has put millions of dollars into the pockets of the Newsoms.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom has proven to be quite adroit at moving money and influence from non-profits and foundations that she controls to herself. For example, the Siebel Family Charitable Foundation, a family foundation where she acts as a director, provided $23,000, one of its largest grants, as of its last tax filing, to The Representation Project.
Newsom was an honorary board member of the International Museum of Women, that was set to be launched in San Francisco and that was supposed to be publicly funded, but instead burned through millions of dollars, but did partner with The Representation Project. Gavin Newsom and his wife had served as honorary co-chairs for the museum’s fundraiser.
She was a board member of KQED, the local PBS affiliate, which provided gushing coverage of not only her husband’s administration, but also promoted her ‘documentaries’. Like so much else, this arrangement appears to have been useful for both halves of the power couple.
The networks of non-profits, some state, some funded by those who have business with the state, has clearly played a role in allowing the Newsoms to afford their lavish lifestyle.
Many of these questions could be cleared up if the Newsoms would release their tax returns.
In 2019, Gov. Newsom championed a law forcing presidential candidates to release their returns. The purpose of the law was to target Trump. Fortunately for Newsom, the law was found to be unconstitutional, and so he won’t have to release his tax returns or address the many conflicts of interest and the ways that he has grown even richer while governor.
Photo credit: Franco Folini from San Francisco, USA per Wikimedia Commons.
OMG!
Thank you Mr Greenfield for telling us the truth about the lousy leftist liars! All they know how to do is lie, steal, and cheat!
You can’t make this junk up!
What a world we live in! Ain’t it great?!
Why is anybody surprised by this? LOOK AT HIM! He’s little more that a flashy cardboard cut-out of a man. He stands for nothing beyond the usual liberal advertisements, he has no original ideas, and based on his income we now know just how corrupt his life is. BTW, native Californian here. Pray for me…
The real corruption is due to the Democrat politicians at the top, which is where Republican politicians should focus their attacks if they hope for good results in the upcoming elections, instead of attacking the mass of voters who have fallen into the Democrat trap and receive benefits. The Democrats made those benefits easy to get, so that when the Republican politicians attack the recipients, the recipients of benefits get scared into voting for the Democrats.
Those bennies are attractive. You’ve gotta be strong to resist them. You can do it, though. Nothing is too hard if you put your mind to it.
The Demoncrats. It’s a big party, but we ain’t in it ::)
Daniel, You misspelled Newsom …. it is C-L-I-N-T-O-N ….
So that used-car salesman set up his own version of The Clinton Holyland Foundation.
The list of flaming Democrats getting exponentially richer while in office grows ever larger.
Trump is the only politician I know of who got poorer for entering office for two reasons . . .
¹ He didn’t draw his salary & his real estate empire was put on the back burner.
² Banana republic style lawfare.
Four brazenly dishonest prosecutions, endless subpoenas, bald-faced activist judges predetermining judgements against him, etc
It’s a two tiered justice system; look what they did to the J-6 people.
Keep in mind the gov’t is what actually instigated J6.
It was a set-up; plain and simple.
The docile, static crowd was fired upon for half an hour until Ray Epps FINALLY convinced a Trump patriot to kick down a bike-rack barrier.
The DC police fired upon the crowd to enrage it; NOT to disperse it.
They killed Kevin Greeson accidentally with bursting canister in his eye (he had a heart condition.)
What the Brits call “A Stitchup.”.
“Stitchup” I love that word (British slang 🙂
One crook learns from another crook.
Daniel, keep blasting a hole in the Gruesome NewScam vault. Gruesome NewScam lies are giving him that Parkinson quiver in his jaw. His mouth can no longer keep up with his lies and alibis. This demonic filthy scum from the swamp is going to end up like blown mind crooked liar Joe Briben, When he can no longer recall which alibi keep up with his lies, his mind is blown.
Why is President Trump still sharp as a tack and can do rallies like the one he did in Kentucky yesterday with energy and humor and facts. Do a near 2 hour State of the Union, we the people have found out President Trump tells the truth. What he says, he does or has done. What he promised he will do, he already has a working project outline. Iran was on the agenda of President Trump. To wipe this terrorist nation’s leaders off the Earth if they will not join the global plans for peace with prosperity and invention in their nation.
Only a f’ing lunatic who’s head is up the devil’s butt see Gruesome NewScam as a viable leader to elect . I can see illegal aliens logically illegally voting for Gruesome NewScam or any DemonKKKRat who wants illegal aliens in the USA and no voter ID.
Study history and be very afraid. Many a great nation has fallen due to its own corruption. Our leaders apparently never read history or just ignored it, Newscum is not just a cause, he is a cancer symptom, big time.
Whatever our President Trump did not accomplished was as always because we have all these “Democratic” Judges who did & continue doing all in the Hell they can to make the Projects of OUR President as hard as possible. And the Fake “News” are adding their part to describe Trump as dark as possible. My siblings in Germany HATE TRUMP! Why??? No answer!
It is shuddering to think that fraudster Newsom might be the D candidate in 2028, and who knows how dumb the voters will be in two years?
You are assuming that vote counts are legitimate, an assumption we Californians may no longer make.
Well, it seems that a physical law of politics is that new scum rises to the top.
Remember scrooge’s old partner—jacob Marley & his chains…. No U can’t take what U want w/U…. But U will! 🐝 Taking, much that U do not.
Thank you Daniel for this expose about these miserable, corrupt Godless grifters. The heart breaking reality is that there are so many of them using their intellect and talents to deceive and steal from the people that put their trust in them to govern, but to instead just enrich themselves beyond any decency. Great work sir. Just reading it gives me a headache! I can only hope that at some point “the people” will pick up their pitchforks and storm the castles of these soulless creatures.
Observing the accompanying photo of those two crooks, what always amazes and befuddles me are the idiotic fools joyously following them and supporting them. Whether it be the Clintons, or the Obamas, or the the crackpots of “The View”. It’s a damn sad statement on so many Americans.
Or the moon eyed fools who worship man commie.
And the meaningless “thumbs up” gesture. Thumbs up to what?
What lenin referred to as “useful idiots”. They have existed since the dawn of time.
I say this as a lifelong Californian who has NEVER voted Democrat; Gavvie and his wife both belong on prison, but I’m not holding my breath for that.
Hmmmm…. I justly learned that Noisome Newsom was born four months after I left California for good…. Did I miss anything?
Oh, yeah. This. Never mind! (Snicker!) 😁
ooops, typo.
“just learned”
California has become a medieval estate ruled by wealthy lords with their vast estates and at the top is king Gavin and his queen. It’s good to be king!
A long time ago a guy named Willie Sutton became notorious for robbing banks. At some point, a reporter helped Willie graduate from notorious to immortal by asking, “Willie, why do you rob banks?” Willie’s reply was “Because that’s where the money is.”
Look at recent headlines, as well as some not so recent. Organized crime has been scamming about a billion dollars a week from Medicare for 30 years. The Clintons in 2000 were penniless, living on a government pension, with a mortgage, reduced to stealing furniture out of the White House; By 2015 they reported a net worth of $200 million. Their WEALTH, after taxes and expense, their WEALTH had increased at a rate of more than a MILLION dollars per MONTH while running a “not-for-profit” that helped government spend money. Somalis have bilked MN and OH and ME out of billions. There are as many Medicaid-funded hospices in parts of Los Angeles as there are taco stands. So, grab a clue from Willie Sutton and answer, where’s the money now?
And while we’re answering questions, we sometimes hear the inquiry, “how do we get the money out of politics?” That will happen right after you get the money out of government. If the federal budget is 4 TRILLION, that means they are spending a TRILLION every 90 days, about 11 BILLION PER DAY, every day. If Willie Sutton were alive today, he would not be wasting his talents on banks.
There is no one in charge of the IRS right now. We need a strong honest Republican who will pursue all the democrat fraudsters and scam artists who bilk the government out of billions. Every democrat politician becomes a millionaire on a small government salary and then speaks of the virtues of socialism.
Why aren’t the democrats that do evil by money laundering big bucks not to mention the stealing of taxpayer dollars not in prison? The democrats who attacked our great President Trump with numerous bogus charges. They are still free to walk the streets of America! Help me please to understand this.
excuse me but isn’t that fraud, embezzlement, and misuse of US G0verment funds? Shouldn’t the IRS have a copy of his tax records to examine? If there is nothing wrong, then why is he hiding the records. This guy is even more crooked than his family member Nancy Pelosi, just not as smart. His records and those of his wife, the nonprofits tied to them all need to have a fornsic audit and then let the chips fall where they may.