FEC Complaint Filed Against Clothing Company Patagonia’s “Dark Money” Group
Outdoor clothing group Patagonia has made no secret of their far-left radical views.
Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario has repeatedly attacked President Trump and pledged to “resist” him.
Now, the watchdog group Americans for Public Trust (APT) has filed a campaign finance complaint against the company’s tax-exempt arm, alleging the nonprofit is misrepresenting donations and “funneling its profits to an array of groups working on everything from dam removal to voter registration.”
According to The New York Times, Patagonia and the Chouinard family, which founded the company, “set up a series of trusts, limited liability corporations and charitable groups designed to protect the independence of the clothing company while distributing all of its profits through an entity known as the Holdfast Collective” after the family relinquished ownership of the company declaring all its future profits would be used to protect the environment and combat climate change.
