Georgia, Katharine and Barbara, you’ve all done great in-depth research and posts. I’ve added a second follow-up comment to Chapter 1 regarding Mike Johnson’s capital gains tax liability for selling the house in 2020. Katharine, since you took a local deep dive regarding parish records, you might want to see my Chapter 1 comments. Regarding “one document entitled Request for Notice of Seizure Real Property”, this might be related to the 2007 Trustees Deed from the county sheriff to Jaj Properties. County sheriff sale would imply sale maybe due from unpaid taxes or criminal forfeiture; it’s likely the former. Jaj Properties is a small local nonresidential property management company LLC operated by Thomas Brice (registered Republican). Jaj Properties were the sellers to the Johnson’s in 2013. Georgia’s research shows Thomas P. Brice Jr. and wife, Mary Brice as the 2013 sellers.
Michael, your contributions are enormously helpful! thank you so much for adding to the effort. I will check and see if Brice and Rainwater and Horton were donors around the time of the real estate transactions.
I’ve spent way too much time on this today. Louisiana records by parish (similar to county?) so I actually paid to search one of them. I found some deeds there and was making progress but started getting the message “The service is low on memory. Try again in a few minutes.” You might want to get a local searcher, and I was able to see that M&M Title LLC was involved on one transaction. Of interest was one document entitled Request for Notice of Seizure Real Property, but I was unable to study it further. Enough for me today. TTFN
WOW! You are amazing. I have no idea how to get a local searcher or what it would cost. I have the time and the energy but not the funds to work on researching like this. I don't have enough subscribers to add paid subscriptions, and I want to be sure I have enough to keep this going for the longer term.
is titled Tracing Mikey J's Finances and subtitled Chapter 1: Personal Finances. It is not defunct. I couldn't easily edit that one. It contains just one part of this very complicated story. It is the part that focused on Johnson's home and whether it was sold in 2020 or not.
I did incorporate your suggestion in the more recent post titled Tracing Speaker Johnson's Finances and subtitled Chapter 2: Campaign Finances: Statement of Organization. That is the one that focused on the Johnson's association with the America Strong PAC and who is behind America Strong.
I am now working on Chapter 3: Current election Cycle Donors which should be out by Monday morning.
Let me know if you still have questions. It is all very complicated. There are 8 different organizations that share the same address and management that are allied with Americans for Limited Government which originally funded America Strong.
Americans for Limited Government is associated with Donors Trust which is part of the Koch network. It's a maze.
I am trying to figure the dark money out. That America Strong PAC is an empty shell at the moment, and the only money I see from Koch is out in the open--a direct donation from Koch Industries to the campaign committee.
I am happy to answer questions. If you didn't understand me, then others won't either and that means I need to up my game.
I really want this Substack to be a little different than most, a more in depth conversation that moves everyone's understanding forward, and less people me-tooing without adding sometime new. I would really like to get people motivated to think about using the data that's out there to get to take a hard look at their Senators and Representatives.
Georgia, Katharine and Barbara, you’ve all done great in-depth research and posts. I’ve added a second follow-up comment to Chapter 1 regarding Mike Johnson’s capital gains tax liability for selling the house in 2020. Katharine, since you took a local deep dive regarding parish records, you might want to see my Chapter 1 comments. Regarding “one document entitled Request for Notice of Seizure Real Property”, this might be related to the 2007 Trustees Deed from the county sheriff to Jaj Properties. County sheriff sale would imply sale maybe due from unpaid taxes or criminal forfeiture; it’s likely the former. Jaj Properties is a small local nonresidential property management company LLC operated by Thomas Brice (registered Republican). Jaj Properties were the sellers to the Johnson’s in 2013. Georgia’s research shows Thomas P. Brice Jr. and wife, Mary Brice as the 2013 sellers.
Michael, your contributions are enormously helpful! thank you so much for adding to the effort. I will check and see if Brice and Rainwater and Horton were donors around the time of the real estate transactions.
Hey Georgia,
I’ve spent way too much time on this today. Louisiana records by parish (similar to county?) so I actually paid to search one of them. I found some deeds there and was making progress but started getting the message “The service is low on memory. Try again in a few minutes.” You might want to get a local searcher, and I was able to see that M&M Title LLC was involved on one transaction. Of interest was one document entitled Request for Notice of Seizure Real Property, but I was unable to study it further. Enough for me today. TTFN
WOW! You are amazing. I have no idea how to get a local searcher or what it would cost. I have the time and the energy but not the funds to work on researching like this. I don't have enough subscribers to add paid subscriptions, and I want to be sure I have enough to keep this going for the longer term.
You are amazing. Not many people would change it.
In my ignorant opinion I think your second version delivers more a punch to the situation Speaker Johnson and his wife find themselves in.
Thank You for your work.
Can't change Chapter 1. Chapter 2 got posted after your comment on Chapter 1 so I changed all the references there. Wait until you see Chapter 3...
Well now I'm confused. In a time warp here. So my original comment was on an already defunct chapter?
Yes your comment was on Chapter 1 which was about Johnson's personal finances which if you look at my Substack website
https://georgiafisanick.substack.com/
is titled Tracing Mikey J's Finances and subtitled Chapter 1: Personal Finances. It is not defunct. I couldn't easily edit that one. It contains just one part of this very complicated story. It is the part that focused on Johnson's home and whether it was sold in 2020 or not.
I did incorporate your suggestion in the more recent post titled Tracing Speaker Johnson's Finances and subtitled Chapter 2: Campaign Finances: Statement of Organization. That is the one that focused on the Johnson's association with the America Strong PAC and who is behind America Strong.
I am now working on Chapter 3: Current election Cycle Donors which should be out by Monday morning.
Let me know if you still have questions. It is all very complicated. There are 8 different organizations that share the same address and management that are allied with Americans for Limited Government which originally funded America Strong.
Americans for Limited Government is associated with Donors Trust which is part of the Koch network. It's a maze.
Ok! Now I get it. That you for taking the time on this Sunday to be so patient with one lone reader. Have a good Sunday.
Can we assume that Speaker Johnson has some significant dark money and has been a trojan horse in the wings for just this moment in time?
I am trying to figure the dark money out. That America Strong PAC is an empty shell at the moment, and the only money I see from Koch is out in the open--a direct donation from Koch Industries to the campaign committee.
I am happy to answer questions. If you didn't understand me, then others won't either and that means I need to up my game.
I really want this Substack to be a little different than most, a more in depth conversation that moves everyone's understanding forward, and less people me-tooing without adding sometime new. I would really like to get people motivated to think about using the data that's out there to get to take a hard look at their Senators and Representatives.