Convicted Terrorist Brett Kimberlin Received $70,000 From Tides Foundation, $10,000 From Streisand, $20,000 from John Kerry’s Wife

Posted on | May 17, 2012 | 102 Comments

‘Speedway Bomber’: Criminal terrorist Brett Kimberlin was convicted in 1981

Investigative journalist Matthew Vadum reports a blockbuster: Brett Kimberlin, the convicted felon who terrorized an Indiana town during a weeklong 1978 bombing spree, has received funding from influential “progressive” foundations:

“Speedway Bomber” Brett Kimberlin . . . is a director and founder of the Justice Through Music Project, a seven year old Bethesda, Maryland-based 501c3 nonprofit entity. . . .
Kimberlin is the business partner of leftist blogger Brad Friedman … They are both involved with a group called Velvet Revolution which also receives funding from the Tides Foundation.
JTMP has received at least $70,000 in grants from the far-left Tides Foundation since 2006.
Another noteworthy donor is . . Barbra Streisand who has given JTMP at least $10,000 through her Barbra Streisand Foundation since 2006 . . .
Yet another is Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Sen. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts). Mrs. Kerry is CEO of the Heinz Family Foundation which has given JTMP at least $20,000 since 2006 . . .

A self-described “associate” of Democrat political consultant Neal Rauhauser, Kimberlin’s recent activities are under increased scrutiny because of his alleged harassment of blogger Aaron Worthing.

UPDATE: The disclosure of Kimberlin’s funding from prestigious liberals matters, because of this convicted criminal’s apparently close connections to other key figures in the progressive online community, not only his business partnership with Brad Friedman, but also his claims to be an “associate” of Democrat political consultant Neal Rauhauser.

In October 2010, conservative blogger Patrick Read documented how “Rauhauser was soliciting some of the worst provocateurs he could find in an effort to deliberately elicit angered responses from the Tea Party.” The online activists alleged to have been part of Rauhauser’s network made conservative blogger Greg W. Howard an especial target for vicious Twitter harassment. (Warning: Extremely graphic language.)

Rauhauser’s “Beandogs,” as he called them, all operated under aliases. The Rauhauser-Friedman-Kimberlin nexus therefore suggests at least the possibility that funding from major progressive non-profits helped enable this vicious campaign of online harassment.

UPDATE II: In October 2010, Big Journalism’s Mandy Nagy extensively documented the heinous history of “Speedway Bomber” Brett Kimberlin — a must read — and the question now to be considered is asked by Matthew Vadum:

Do the people at the Tides Foundation, Barbra Streisand Foundation, and Heinz Family Foundation know that they have given money to an organization run by a litigious, violent, radical felon who appears to delight in intimidating people whose views he disagrees with?

UPDATE III: Who Warned Us About Brett Kimberlin? You might recognize the name. Just sayin’ . . .

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Category: Crime, Democrats, Progressivism, Terrorism, The Kimberlin Files

Comments

102 Responses to “Convicted Terrorist Brett Kimberlin Received $70,000 From Tides Foundation, $10,000 From Streisand, $20,000 from John Kerry’s Wife”

smitty
May 17th, 2012 @ 4:27 pm

Worse still, Kimberlin is not a regular reader of this blog. @rsmccain:disqus
Dianna Deeley
May 17th, 2012 @ 4:29 pm

I looked up their 990-EZ last year; this is good information. A point I’d mention after a quick read-through of the 2010 990 (after a six month extension): there are, so far as I can tell, no real board of directors (Kimberlin and Cohen only listed – and how does an executive director not spend any time or record any hours?!), and no available governing documents, which is exceptional, in my experience. In addition, I do not understand how they manage to spend over $250,000 on DVDs telling young people about their voting rights.

Seriously?

Tides giving that much to such a small, and (frankly) sketchily documented organization rather surprised me. I’m not fond of Tides, but that’s a little much.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
May 17th, 2012 @ 4:30 pm

Really? Have you ever seen Kimberlin and Anamika together?
Pathfinder's wife
May 17th, 2012 @ 4:47 pm

Why does it not suprise me that a creepy punk like Kimberlin would get money from those sources?
Zilla of the Resistance
May 17th, 2012 @ 4:53 pm

How come the guy isn’t in jail for his crimes?
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May 17th, 2012 @ 4:56 pm

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Dianna Deeley
May 17th, 2012 @ 5:12 pm

You may have typed too soon.
Adjoran
May 17th, 2012 @ 5:19 pm

He was paroled.
Hal
May 17th, 2012 @ 5:25 pm

On the 990, I thought this was interesting as well:

21 Payments to affiliates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 9 , 3 0 0
smitty
May 17th, 2012 @ 5:29 pm

*gasp*
Dianna Deeley
May 17th, 2012 @ 5:29 pm

No idea; from some reading of Aaron Worthing, he was paroled, had parole revoked, and was eventually released. It seems rather mysterious.
Zilla of the Resistance
May 17th, 2012 @ 5:31 pm

Stupid revolving door for criminals. I hate liberals, I really really do.
Kristi
May 17th, 2012 @ 5:31 pm

wowee …. O.o
Dianna Deeley
May 17th, 2012 @ 6:10 pm

Yes – and I haven’t time to dig into it, though I’m distinctly curious. At a guess, one of those “affiliates” will be Velvet Revolution. If not the only one.
robertstacymccain
May 17th, 2012 @ 6:19 pm

If he had been sentenced to the maximum penalty for the crimes of which he was convicted, Kimberlin faced more than 200 years in prison. He served only 17 — and we see what use he has made of this misguided judicial “mercy.”
Pathfinder's wife
May 17th, 2012 @ 6:44 pm

Too bad he can’t be nailed down on that murder charge; most folks in Indy still consider him to be guilty.
Hal
May 17th, 2012 @ 6:52 pm

Have you looked here:
http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990s/990search/esearch.php

You can read the 990’s from 2003-2010.
Adobe_Walls
May 17th, 2012 @ 7:03 pm

As well you should.
Adobe_Walls
May 17th, 2012 @ 7:07 pm

I’d say sinister.
Natasha
May 17th, 2012 @ 7:16 pm

Wow — I’m not allowed to see that first link to Vadum’s story. Here’s the message: “Forbidden – Users from your country are not permitted to browse this site.” From Canada?! Really?! Did us nice, polite, uber-apologetic Canuckistanis piss them off somehow?
Natasha
May 17th, 2012 @ 7:19 pm

Just wanted to add: Tides Foundation (USA) has come under scrutiny here for trying to manipulate our economic and environmental policy with its funding of anti-pipeline/anti-oil sands lobbying efforts under the guise of “charity” and “environmentalism”.
Pathfinder's wife
May 17th, 2012 @ 7:29 pm

Not really — at least the only sinister thing is a guy who has an ability to sway people and who has some connections willing and able to go to bat for him.
And rest assured, Kimberlin can be very good at persuading people…a real guru…catch my drift?
Blank
May 17th, 2012 @ 8:12 pm

This the kind of guy you keep around to take care of problems. The kind once solved by Arkancide.
Aaron Worthing
May 17th, 2012 @ 8:29 pm

This is Aaron “Worthing,” fyi, back when he was sentenced federal criminal law was pretty lax. it is less so today. for one thing, they got rid of federal parole. they passed a law called “truth in sentencing” and ever since, what you are sentenced to is pretty much what you serve. maybe a 5% reduction for good time, that is it, or so talented federal defense lawyers have told me.

Kimberlin seems to have served roughly 15 out of 50 years, which is less than a third of the sentence. since the courts have found that his bombs were responsible for a man’s death, that seems a bit light.

Btw, a bit of inside baseball. keep an eye on patterico’s. more is coming.
DonaldDouglas
May 17th, 2012 @ 8:35 pm

Dropping this here, with all the key videos of Mitt Romney on Wright at the post: ‘Jeremiah Wright and Democrat Double Standards’. Will link you up later…
ThePaganTemple
May 17th, 2012 @ 9:00 pm

That ban is probably originating from your side of the border.
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Dianna Deeley
May 17th, 2012 @ 10:56 pm

No big surprise, and I’m glad Canada is investigating. Their annual report is rather open about their desire to shut down practically every energy source that isn’t their precious solar and wind.
Bruce
May 17th, 2012 @ 10:57 pm

Also blocked here in Australia. (??) Ditto.
“Forbidden – Users from your country are not permitted to browse this site.”
ThePaganTemple
May 17th, 2012 @ 11:16 pm

It’s probably been banned for “hate speech” or some such bullshit. The US doesn’t do that. Some blog providers like Blogger or others might remove blogs entirely for TOS violations, but as long as they remain in place and active they won’t ban anybody from viewing them. The most they will do is put up a warning page to the effect that the site has been flagged for hate speech or other offensive material, but if you still want to see it you just click on a link and you can read it.
Dianna Deeley
May 17th, 2012 @ 11:17 pm

I use the Foundation Center for a lot of research. I simply do not have time to look at this, and won’t for weeks, by which time, everyone else will have dug up everything relevant.

The Foundation Center’s always a good place to start. That, and Guidestar, are the clearinghouses for non-profit information.
crosspatch
May 18th, 2012 @ 3:58 am

Doesn’t surprise me he got funds from Tides but the funds might not *really* actually be from Tides, they might be THROUGH Tides. The original purpose of the Tides Foundation is to launder donations. I could donate $10,000 to Tides but “earmark” my donation to Kimberlin. After some period of time, Tides would take my donation, add in any others also earmarked for Kimberlin, maybe kick in a little from the “general fund” just to obfuscate things a little more, and make a donation to Kimberlin. Kimberlin would see a donation or grant from Tides, Tides would show a donation from me, but they are not required to report how I earmarked the donation. So Tides is just the go-between. If Kimberlin got a sizable donation from Tides, it is likely that the donation originated with someone else who earmarked a donation or a portion of a larger donation to Kimberlin.

There is almost no way to track the money back to its original source, that is the point to Tides’ existence.
crosspatch
May 18th, 2012 @ 4:02 am

If the Heinz foundation (Kerry’s wife) gave money directly to Kimberlin, then maybe they aren’t the source of the Tides funds, but maybe they are. Soros uses Tides a lot to hide his activities but so do many other people. Someone needs to have a talk with this Kimberlin fellow. A serious heart to heart, man to man talk.
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Zilla of the Resistance
May 18th, 2012 @ 10:37 am

I read some of what has been to done to you at Patterico last night, OMG, you poor guy! Geez, I though I my problem with identity thieving leftist trolls was bad, but that’s a walk in the park on a sunny day in comparison tot he horror you have been put through! I am so sorry that you are being targeted by such unfathomable evil.
I am on my way to your blog now to read everything.
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Sarah Wells
May 18th, 2012 @ 12:46 pm

And suspected not of just of arranging the grandmother’s fate.

That satchel that blew up the one guy (or blew parts of him off) was targeted at kids – put in a high school lot on game day.

Notice the other cold cases alluded to here:
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Nov 18 1978 – no credible connection established – but interesting timing

Sept 20 1978 – I wonder if they kept that box of ammunition all these years.
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May 18th, 2012 @ 1:18 pm

Knowing Canuckistan like I do, this makes sense. Well, not really, but we’re conditioned to accept it here. 😉
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