Brett Kimberlin’s Heiress Aunt Helping Fund His Tax-Exempt Harassment

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Convicted felon Brett Kimberlin is the nephew of a wealthy Maryland woman who has contributed to a foundation that helped fund a 501(c)3 organization of which Kimberlin is the director. Kimberlin’s activities have recently attracted widespread attention because of his attempts to intimidate and harass bloggers who wrote about his criminal history.

Harriet Crosby, 66, reportedly an heiress to the General Mills fortune, was one of the original donors to the Threshold Foundation, which contributed $20,000 to Kimberlin’s Justice Through Music Project in 2008, according to database research I reported May 19.

The Threshold Foundation was started by a group of wealthy devotees of environmentalism and trancendental meditation. The foundation’s “very liberal” view, researcher Ron Arnold has written, “saw American society as rife with injustice and in need of radical transformation.” Threshold has been affiliated with the Tides Foundation, linked to left-wing billionaire George Soros.

A 2009 profile of Crosby in the alumni magazine of the elite Putney School — a private academy in Vermont, where the annual tuition is $46,900 for boarding students — described her as “active” in the tax-exempt non-profit group Velvet Revolution, which Kimberlin helped start in association with liberal blogger Brad Friedman.

Velvet Revolution gained notoriety by making unsubstantiated claims that Republicans stole the 2004 presidential election through vote fraud. A 2007 Time magazine profile of Kimberlin described how he “found a home in the blogosphere” by “repeatedly asserting as fact things that are not true.” At one point, Kimberlin offered a $100,000 reward for proof of his assertion that President George W. Bush’s re-election was obtained through vote fraud, a reward that was never paid. Velvet Revolution has also unsuccessfully sought criminal prosecution of various public figures including GOP strategist Karl Rove, the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the late New Media entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart.

The connection between Kimberlin and Crosby — verified by a 2009 article in the Montgomery County (Md.) Gazette — was reported today by Tee Zieldors, who credits independent blogger Seth Allen (whose Twitter account is @Preposterocity) for the tip. 

It was Allen’s writings about Kimberlin that resulted in him being the defendant in a lawsuit brought by Kimberlin. Allen’s lawyer, Aaron Worthing, subsequently drew attention to his own experiences with Kimberlin in a 28,000-word account on May 17.

Kimberlin is scheduled to appear in a Maryland court Tuesday for a hearing about a “peace order” he has sought against Walker.

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The National Bloggers Club has created KimberlinFiles.org to help call attention to the Kimberlin case and, as the non-profit goup’s president Ali Akbar says, to enable “supporters to make financial donations to a relief fund as a show of support.”

– Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

UPDATE: Linked by Legal Insurrection, Da Tech Guy, The Camp of the Saints, Little Miss Attila, That Innocuous Girl and Daley Gator — thanks! — and welcome, Instapundit readers!

THE KIMBERLIN FILES:


161 comments

  1. Well you probably should relax if my questions are making you angry.  It’s not a big deal.  We don’t have to be enemies.

  5. I’m just wondering how much of the Left is funded just like this. Directed donations to some foundation, even one the person doing the directed giving set up, as a way to fund, tax deductively fund, persons and/or causes that if they did the giving out right would either tarnish their name, not be tax deductible or both.

    I’d bet the percentage is substantial.

  6. 990 filings exist from 2001-2011. The foundation is a 501(c)(3). Only $22,595 in current revenues and $20,760 in assets, so it appears mostly tapped out at this juncture, perhaps a drawdown situation over the years.

  7. The leftists want to stop CORPORATE donations. This would leave the playing field open for Unions and ORGs (Like Tides). There would be no fighting back.

    Stopping Unions special interests is one thing – but if you want to save this nation, you have to bring the rampant out of control ORGs and Foundations under control and force them to operate within the system of checks and balances. Right now they don’t – they have put on the “grassroots” invisibility” cloak and operate with impunity.

    Kimberlin may just be a sign of how much they are willing to fight to keep the power.

    This is all so awful. Stay safe. And pray for us all, because when the highest level of law enforcement can ignore this, and what is being done to you and to Erickson, and the rest – it’s horrible.

  8. […] has decided that he and his family must leave their home and that they can’t go back; he officially describes his location as “whereabouts unknown.” On Friday, Patterico, an assistant DA by day, […]

  9. Blogger Seth Allen also has reported in the past that money has been channeled into Brent Kimberlin’s foundations by another extremely wealthy heiress, Lori Grace of Tiburon, California. That will need to be verified. If true, most likely her donations are reflected in the total grants from Tides or those from Fidelity Investments Charitable Gifts. 

    Grace is the daughter of the late Oliver R. Grace, who founded Grace & White, an investment company, and Grace Geothermal Corp., while also serving as chairman of the Anderson Group.  He died in 1992.If Lori Grace is another one of the donors, that’s a most startling revelation for two reasons. 1. She has a tantric sex center, called Celebrations of Love, in Marin County north of San Francisco. 2. She has been closely linked to Al Gore,  traveling to Nashville, Tenn. to undergo training in his Climate Project in January 2007.

  10.  I could verify (hear extreme exasperation in my tone, here) much better if you would supply some damned EINs!

    Just the bloody names does not bloody well help!

    EIN of Fairview Foundation, please. Any other charitable foundation you list also needs an EIN attached.

    Do not waste my time. Give me EINs.

  14. Provided the EINS and 990 filings in the other thread for the Farview Foundation — and it is Farview, not Fairview. Don’t have EINS for any Grace donations as, if true, they appear to have been passthroughs via Tides or Fidelity.

  15. I don’t know the law here, but could any of Kimberlin’s victims have a civil case against his donors?  The episodes of “SWATing” are particularly damaging, both to the vicitms and the law enforcement, and I wonder if donors could be sued for reimbursement as well as “pain and sufferring.”

  17. Stormy – we’ve got $20,000 to JTMP in 2010/11 (fiscal year is 7/1 to 6/30). It is, I believe, the largest grant given by Fairview. Stormy, this is great info. Give me more!

  18.  That’s a very interesting question. I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t pretend to be one. But I would ask, did the various donors (especially the small-time occupests he’s trying to get money from via “OccupyforAccountability.org”) have the faintest idea what he was up to?

    Interesting, but maybe a bit of a waste of the blogosphere’s time until we manage to pin the various acts on the right perpetrators.

  20.  I’m a bit stumped as to how to try to trace the passthroughs. That’s a complicated little dance, and I never liked it; it makes sense for ‘donor advised funds’ like Fidelity and Schwab have, but it gives me a headache to trace. No nice, neat, 990 or audit.

    Hrmph.

    Really interesting, especially if you can link some documentation. I’m happy with what you’re giving, don’t get me wrong, but (as always) more would be better.

  21.  I swatted him, so we won’t have to listed to any more of his tilty-head concernedness.

  22. Well, here’s something interesting regarding websites. There are multiple URLs that are banded together with jtmp.org and velvetrevolution.org. Some of the other ones are:

    kochwatch.org
    protectourelections.org
    indictbreitbart.org
    op-critical.com
    standingforvoters.org
    stopthechamber.com

    All of them are pretty self-explanatory except op-critical.com. Besides fashioning himself as a badass revolutionary, Brett Kimberlain also apparently has delusions of being a towering rock star. He has a band called Op-Critical, he’s the frontman, and he goes by Storm. Hence, my handle here…

  24. I’m afraid that’s all I have on that front for now. I’ll see if I can scrounge up anything else later.

  25. Can anybody get this troll’s IP or backtrace him at all? He strikes me as acting more like a Kimberlinite than just a garden-variety troll.

  26. Looks like all are functioning as websites except for standingforvoters.org. But I found a Facebook page for it.

  28.  Cute! Very cute!

    BTW, yes, I know all those “.orgs”. I’m trying to find 990’s – even 990 EZs – on them. They’re making me very, very cranky.

  31. Can’t find any paperwork on any of these others. Either they are brand new startups and paperwork hasn’t been submitted yet, or else maybe Brett’s a little behind in his filings.

  32. I have practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique since 1974. It is the most researched self-development program ever and the research validates that it has a wide range of benefits. The TM technique is for people who want to be active, creative and develop their full potential.

    There is no foundation for tarring the Transcendental Meditation program because Kimberlin has been able to hoodwink idealistic people who happen to practice the TM technique. Hoodwinking people is his specialty.

  33. Does Allah do stuff like that? Guy’s gotta have an email and twitter flow of correspondence that would take a ton of his time.

  36. Harriett Crosby, Cofounder & President of Institute for Soviet American Relations.
    “ISAR supports the work of environmental activists in the former Soviet Union. Harriett has worked as an instructor for the Colorado Outward Bound School and taught at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School, Aspen Community School , and at the Putney School in Vermont. She worked at the White House Council on Environmental Quality for the first five years of the Clinton Administration. Harriett has a Master’s degree in Psychology from Temple University and has been trained as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. She attended Pitzer College and just received their distinguished alumni award. She manages Fox Haven, a farm and retreat center in Maryland, and currently serves as vice chair for the board of Friends of the Earth.” [1]
    “She currently serves on the boards of Friends of the Earth, the Institute for Deep Ecology, 20/20 Vision, Taxpayers for Common Sense, ISAR, and IONS.” [2]
    Director, Institute of Noetic SciencesDirector, Friends of the Earth-USDirector, Humane USA

  40. Humane USA huh?  That’s a fun one to look into (think: PETA/HSUS, aka. not so humane).

    John Holdren probably really likes them…

  41. No offense if you do, but you have to admit that there is a population of people who get into that sort of thing that will fall for any sort of con that promises to make them more in tune to whatever.

    Now, in and of itself the only harm is to the people being conned — which is bad enough — but sometimes they wind up supporting cons which support people like Kimberlin and company (and worse, much much worse), and that’s really not good at all.

    It’s great to want to develop one’s full potential…but as with everything else, a person has to be aware of the potential con and the not so nice people that might be wanting to suck you in (because some of them are really freaking evil…just ask my pet loving buddies who have innocently and with good intentions given to “humane” groups; groups that aren’t so nice as they sound).

  44. Got another one of these foundations pinned down.

    HKH Foundation
    275 Madison Ave., 33rd Floor
    New York, New York 10016-1101

    EIN: 136784950
    990 filings exist from 2001-2010

    Foundation created by Harold K. Hochschild, longtime head of the American Metal Company, Ltd., a custom smelter and ore/scrap refining firm that later merged, becoming AMAX Inc. Hochschild (1892-1981) lived in NYC and Blue Mountain House, a resort, in upstate New York. In 1957, he founded the Adirondack Museum.

    Foundation now administered by Harriet Barlow, who seemingly divides her time between Minneapolis, Minn., and Blue Mountain House, NY, where she is executive director of a retreat for artists and writers. Notably, she is the director of the Foundation for National Progress, which oversees Mother Jones magazine. She also is a co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in Minneapolis, and co-founder of a food co-op in Bethesa, Maryland, where Kimberlin’s foundations are based.

    The HKH Foundation now focuses its grants on environmental causes, the arms race and civil liberties (you could have fooled me on this last one!)

  47. brett would love to hear from everyone   he lives with mommy dearest  carolyn at 8100 beech tree road in bethesda md  301 299 5780

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